ABUJA – A member of the House of Representatives Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has picked holes in the fresh move by the House to probe the Centenary City project.
A member, Hon Timothy Golu, last week alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Centenary City project.
Hon Golu noted that the project is being executed “without regard to extant regulations and guidelines.”
But, a member of the FCT Committee who pleaded anonymity expressed concern over what he described as the desperation of some of his colleagues in the “attempt to bring a dead matter to life.”
The federal lawmaker alleged that there was more to Wednesday’s resolution by the House that the project be probed.
The member was miffed that the committee was made to look cheap and uninformed by the presentation of members who appeared to be against the Centenary City project.
“The worry now it that the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is already looking ridiculous, setting the stage for a bigger query regarding how the National Assembly would look when it finally emerges that it was actually a former Minister of the FCT, who is behind the fresh move to probe the Centenary project,” the lawmaker lamented.
Already, the Senate had held an elaborate Public Hearing on the Centenary City Project and written a two-week old report on it with all material facts on the project now before the National Assembly.
A source close to one of the promoters of the Centenary City, insisted on Thursday that because Project is a private investment, “the Federal Government has actually not spent a dime on it.”
Prompt News Online recalls that the Centenary City Project, which was embarked on by the last administration is one of the Legacy Projects to mark the 100 years anniversary of the 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria.
