Abuja – The presidency on Friday dismissed claims by the House of Representatives that there were violations in the approval of N5.8 billion Emergency Intervention Fund for North-East by the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President Office of the Vice President, in a statement in Abuja, said the insinuations were false and baseless.
“Our attention has been drawn to a report of the House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness issued on Nov. 8, particularly in respect of funds released for “emergency intervention of food security to the North-East” in June 2017, when the Vice President was Acting President.
“In its report, the Committee alleged that a sum of N5,865,671,939.26 was approved and released in June 2017 vide a Memo raised from the Office of the Acting…
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