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The representative of Borno South Senatorial District stated this on Wednesday in an interview with Channels TV.
The Commission made this promise on Wednesday when it played host to a delegation from BudgIT Nigeria.
These empowerment projects have also been used as a funnel to transfer political benefits to party loyalists, particularly in a pre-election year.
Amaechi expressed the commitment at the annual ministerial news briefing on landmark programmes, projects and activities of the ministry and its agencies on Friday in Abuja.
The irrigation pumps were supplied since December 2019 under the constituency projects earmarked for the area.
According to a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, the tracking is under the second phase of the constituency and executive projects tracking in 16 states of the federation.
This was disclosed at the launch of the 2018 Tracka Federal Constituency Projects Tracking Report held at Yaba, Lagos
President Muhammadu Buhari brought the issue of constituency projects to public attention when at an event organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, in November, he lamented that there is very little evidence or benefit to the grassroots of the One Trillion Naira that had been earmarked for constituency projects in the last 10 years.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has recovered items worth N117,123,375.44 million from the representative of Enugu North Senatorial District, Chukwuka Utazi.
The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said the nation had spent about N2 trillion on constituency projects without commensurate development at the grassroots.
A top contender for the Senate Presidency, Senator Ali Ndume, has said that if elected, he will give legal backing to constituency projects.
OrderPaper Nigeria has announced the release of the ConsTrack mobile application, a user friendly and innovative tool for citizens to engage elected representatives on constituency projects across the country.
Suspected political thugs on Wednesday destroyed some constituency projects of Senator Dino Melaye at two Locations in Lokoja metropolis, few hours to their inauguration.
The position of the legislature tallies with a firm position canvassed by other critical stakeholders from the media, civil society organizations, community-based organizations and representatives of the executive branch of government, among others, concerned with the constituency projects scheme.
The minister said all monies appropriated for constituency projects would be warehoused in an account at the Central Bank of Nigeria pending the readiness of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to execute the projects