Abandoned ₦400 billion primary health center project

On a motion by Senators Ibrahim Oloriegbe (APC, Kwara Central) and Sadiq Suleiman Umar (APC, Kwara North), the Senate mandated its Committees on Health, Primary Health Care and Communicable Disease, Works, and Housing to investigate the abandoned ₦400 billion National Primary Health Centre project started by the Obasanjo administration in 2006 to build a 60-bed center in each of the 774 local government areas. The motion said funds deducted from the councils' share of the Excess Crude Account were kept with Platinum Habib Bank (now Keystone Bank), and that the contract was awarded to Messrs Mattans Nig. Ltd without any known tendering process.