{"id":35540,"date":"2019-10-23T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35540"},"modified":"2019-10-23T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:22:58","slug":"we-know-nothing-about-n4-billion-budget-padding-waterways-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/we-know-nothing-about-n4-billion-budget-padding-waterways-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"We know Nothing About N4 billion Budget Padding \u2013 Waterways Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Inland Waterways Authority on Wednesday denied allegations that it padded its 2020 budget with N4 billion worth of fraudulent and non-existent projects.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement signed by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mr Tayo Fadile, and made available to reporters in Lokoja, it said the allegation was frivolous and is targetted at ridiculing the good name of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reports, which gained wide circulation in various online social media platforms, did not reflect the true position of the House Committee on Inland Waterways of the National Assembly,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore advise those peddling lies to desist as this reputable organisation has never and will never have anything to do with anything that may lower the integrity, vision and mission of which NIWA is widely known.\u201d<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>According to the statement, the National Freight office at idi-Iroko, Ogun State has \u201cabsolutely nothing to do with NIWA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It stressed that the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of State (Transportation), Gbemi Saraki and the NIWA MD, George Muoghalu, attended the budget defence and no mention was made of any alleged N4 billion project.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said any further enquiry should be made to the Transport Committee (Inland Waterways) for detailed information.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Inland Waterways Authority on Wednesday denied allegations that it padded its 2020 budget with N4 billion worth of fraudulent and non-existent projects.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[5180,6319],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-niwa","tag-waterways-authority"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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