Home / Probes / LAO-0233

₦81 billion tree-planting expenditure by a federal agency

Status

No final report

Assembly

House of Representatives

Opened

31 August 2023

Assembly term

10th National Assembly (2023–2027)

Committee

Ad hoc committee

Sum at issue

₦81 billion

Subject

Spending and misuse of funds

Without a report for

1,168 days

On a motion by Ali Lawan Shettima, the House of Representatives set up an ad hoc committee, chaired by Ismaila Dabo, to investigate the use of ecological funds released to the National Agency for the Great Green Wall since 2015. At its hearing in August 2023 the committee questioned ₦81.2 billion said to have been spent on planting 21 million trees in 11 frontline states, and conflicting figures from the CBN, the Accountant-General and the agency.

What the record shows

31 August 2023
Probe opened.
11 December 2023
The committee said it had found no evidence of fraud by the National Agency for the Great Green Wall.
As of 11 November 2026
No final report of this probe has been found on the public record.

Opened more than 120 days ago, and no final report of the committee has been found on the public record. Interim reports and hearings are shown where known. Know of a report, hearing or outcome missing here? Send a correction.