Victory and Rose Associates, an Abuja-based law firm, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how it spent its 2010 budget.
A letter made available to Sunday Trust, addressed to the chairman of the commission dated 16th October and signed by Ogboli Charles and Osuagwu Ugochukwu read in part: “we are in possession of the EFCC’s budgetary allocation for 2010. Our records show that the commission was allocated N9,017,327,453 for 2010.”
Citing sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Freedom Of Information Act, the firm asked the Commission to explain “how the sum of N198,000,000 and N340,000,000 were utilized for media advocacy and insurance respectively and which company is handling the insurance policy of the Commission and total number of staff and/or properties benefiting under this insurance scheme.”
It also demanded to know “why the commission re-advertised in the Federal Tenders Journal for the Construction of the Port Harcourt office block and received budgetary allocation for this project in he 2011 Appropriation Act when under the 2010 budget, the Commission had already been allocated the sum of N24,750,000 for the same Port Harcourt office block.”
A letter made available to Sunday Trust, addressed to the chairman of the commission dated 16th October and signed by Ogboli Charles and Osuagwu Ugochukwu read in part: “we are in possession of the EFCC’s budgetary allocation for 2010. Our records show that the commission was allocated N9,017,327,453 for 2010.”
Citing sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Freedom Of Information Act, the firm asked the Commission to explain “how the sum of N198,000,000 and N340,000,000 were utilized for media advocacy and insurance respectively and which company is handling the insurance policy of the Commission and total number of staff and/or properties benefiting under this insurance scheme.”
It also demanded to know “why the commission re-advertised in the Federal Tenders Journal for the Construction of the Port Harcourt office block and received budgetary allocation for this project in he 2011 Appropriation Act when under the 2010 budget, the Commission had already been allocated the sum of N24,750,000 for the same Port Harcourt office block.”
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