By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO
LOKOJA – Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has expressed his readiness to probe the contracts awarded by past governments with the aim of recovering public funds spent on such projects.

Yahaya Bello 

The governor, who made the disclosure in Lokoja, Tuesday during a meeting with contractors handling some of the projects, said rate at which the contracts were abandoned were alarming and unacceptable to government.

He said his government appointed an independent consultant to visit the project sites and review them to ascertain which of the contractors had abandoned sites. The contracts were awarded by the ministries of works, health, housing, transport and water resources.

Bello however said it was unfortunate that some contractors got money for projects awarded to them and did not carry them out, “My administration is not ready to witch hunt anybody with the probe, but to enable government meet the development demands of the state.