The Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District, Chukwuka Utazi, has finally distributed the items meant for members of his constituency, Igbere TV reports.
This comes on the heels of threats by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to prosecute him.
Igbere TV reports that the anti-corruption agency had sealed up the premises where Utazi kept items meant for his constituents since last year.
The items which include Transformers, Tricycles, Motorcycles, Sewing Machines, Grinding Machines, are said to worth over N117 million.
The distribution, Igbere TV learnt, was done under the close supervision of officials of the ICPC.
The ICPC had on Sunday made the discovery of the items during its annual Constituency Projects’ Tracking Exercise.
The agency said the items recovered from the Enugu born lawmaker were 168 and 51 motorcycles and tricycles respectively.
The commission said it also recovered 203 grinding machines, 5 transformers and another 60 motorcycles in the compound.
According to the ICPC, the items were meant to be distributed to the lawmaker’s constituents to empower them as part of the Federal Government’s efforts to alleviate poverty.
“They were discovered to be stashed away in a compound in Mkpologu town of Uzo-Nwani Local Government Area, believed to be owned by the senator,” the ICPC said.
“The senator has pledged to the ICPC that they would be distributed to beneficiaries on Tuesday, August 6, 2019,” the commission added.
Findings by Igbere TV showed that the contract for the procurement of the items was awarded on 23rd January 2018, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the senator’s constituency projects.
Senator Utazi was chairman of the anti-corruption committee in the 8th Senate, comprising of the ICPC, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti-graft agencies.
