The House of Representatives committee on National Population has came down hard on the National Population Commission (NPC), for spending about N1.9 billion in organising a national summit, describing its explanations as shallow.
According to members of the committee, the report brought before it by the commission was not detailed therefore, therefore they demanded that the commission give a break down of how it spent N1.9 billion on the said event.
Other areas the Commmitte questioned the commission was how it spent N 118 million on designing a website , over five billion naira for mock census, and N23 million for welfare packages, as well as who benefitted fro the packages.
“We would like to know what type of welfare and who are the recipients of this N23 million”, a member of the panel from Osun State, Taofeek Ajilesorohad queried during a budget defence session with NPC on Wednesday.
In her explanation, Director of census in the Commission, Evelyn Olanipekun, stated…
