Seeks reversal of Agency allocation to 15%
The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee set up to investigate the utilisation of Ecological Fund released to the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has absolved the management of the Agency of alleged financial malfeasance.
The Adhoc committee led by Ismaila Dabo was set up in July, sequel to a motion by Honourable Ali Lawan Shettima on “the Need to Investigate the Utilization of Ecological Funds Released to the Great Green Wall by the international organizations from 2015 to date; and all Federal Allocations to the
National Agency for the Great Green Wall as well as all Contract awarded to various contractors for the Project from 2019 to Date.”
The agency, at the inaugural sitting of the Adhoc Committee, was alleged to have spent the sum of ₦81.2 billion on the planting of 21 million trees across 11 frontline states.
The States are: Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe,
Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.
The 15 man committee also queried some of the expenditures under review.
As gathered, the Director General/CEO of National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar in his presentation before the Committee last September offered clarifications on budgetary allocation to the agency.
According to the DG, who assumed office in April 2022, the sum of ₦53,425,423,874.34 was the amount released to the Agency from inception to July 2023, as against the sum of N81.2 billion which the Agency was alleged to have spent.
The DG of the NAGGW, who dismissed the bogus amount mentioned and reported by the media, maintained that the Agency had not acted outside its mandate in the
implementation of the Great Green Wall Programme.
