By Bonny Sampson
The immediate past speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr Onofiok Akpan Luke has disputed the published reports of the Auditor-General’s 2016 – 2018 reports saying; it’s a case of wrong classification.
The former Speaker, now the Hon member representing Etinan/Nsit Ibom/Nsit Ibo Federal constituency, declared, “This must be a case of wrong classification.
Throughout my tenure as Speaker of the 6th Assembly, there was not a time a matter of this magnitude was brought to my attention”.
The controversy is about a cartel allegedly operating within the Governor’s office, using the government press as a conduit to make questionable expenses. For instance, in the 2016 break down, over 100 million naira was budgeted for the phantom press, the same figure was repeated in 2018, with the repeat of same items earmarked in the 2015, 2016 and 2018, budget estimate without anything on the ground to show for it.
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