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‘Buhari Government Completed Only 32 Percent Of 2018 Constituency Projects’

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The federal government only completed 32 percent of constituency projects in 26 states between June 2018 and November 2019, a report by Tracka, a project monitoring platform of BudgIT has stated.

The report said only 475 zonal intervention out of the 1,497 projects were completed within the stated period.

These were disclosed at the launch of the 2018 Tracka Federal Constituency Projects Tracking Report in Yaba, Lagos on Thursday, December 19, 2019.

The report was generated from the tracking of 1,497 projects. Of these, only 475 projects were completed. 144 are ongoing; 536 were yet to start; 42 were considered abandoned, and whooping 224 projects had unspecified locations, the report stated.

Zonal Intervention Projects popularly known as Constituency Projects are public projects nominated by federal lawmakers to extend the dividends of democratic government to their various constituencies in the quest to unleash development at the grassroots level of the country.

Some of challenges observed during the project tracking were the proliferation of empowerment items, alleged contract inflation, unspecified project locations, inadequate supply of equipment and materials to uncompleted structures, use of substandard products and poor civic unawareness of budgetary provisions.

The report recommended strategic allocation of funds as well as design of empowerment projects.

It also noted that only 30% of funds have released for 2019 constituency projects at as the time of preparing the report.

Head Tracka Uadamen Ilevbaoje said: “We make bold to declare that poor release of funds for these projects will continue to affect implementation across the country.

“Tracka’s influence is spreading through our focus communities. We have a presence in 586 local government areas across 26 states in Nigeria. We have tracked over 15,859 projects in 7,589 towns and organised over 7,612 town hall meetings across the country. With increasing appeal for this project, we plan to scale to all the 36 states of the federation.”

He added: “We are also glad to have fruitful collaboration with agencies of government like the ICPC to give credence and effectiveness to our project tracking initiative.

“We call on government across all tiers to make concerted efforts to ensure citizens benefit from dividends of democracy. BudgIT plans to reach out to the leadership of the National Assembly on improving the nomination process of constituency projects.”

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