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N36.4bn meant for construction of dams released to NSA's office in 2014- Auditor-General of the Federation says

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The Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation yesterday presented its 2014 annual report to the National Assembly detailing what it described as β€˜massive fraud and financial irregularities in the NNPC and other government agencies’.β€Ž The Auditor-General, Samuel Ukaraβ€Ž said N36.4 billion which was meant for the construction of dams was released to the office of the National Security Adviser in 2014 as special funds. Ukaraβ€Ž in his report alleged that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, did not remit N3.2trn into the Federation account in 2014. He added that $235,685,861, being the proceeds from the sale of gas sale accruable to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, was never paid to the federation account. The report also claimed that about $1.6m out of the contract sum of $2.3m, meant to build a school by Nigeria in Haiti in 2010, had been paid without the project being executed up until now. "As of the time of inspection, there was no eviden...