{"id":98285,"date":"2022-08-17T17:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98285"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:59:29","slug":"we-used-n18-9-billion-to-clear-bush-others-agric-ministry-tells-house-of-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/we-used-n18-9-billion-to-clear-bush-others-agric-ministry-tells-house-of-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"We Used N18.9 Billion To Clear Bush, Others \u2014 Agric Ministry Tells House Of Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says it spent a whooping N18.9 billion on bush clearing, land preparation among others during the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Wole Oke, chairman of the Public Account Committee of the House of Representatives Committee (PAC), said the ministry disclosed this while responding to a probe on how it spent the said sum. The agric ministry is the subject of an investigation by the House committee into a N18.9 billion contract for bush clearing, preparing the ground, and restoring soil plant laboratories during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oke, \u201cDuring the lockdown of the country as a result of COVID-19, some companies took contracts worth about N18 billion for bush clearing from the federal ministry of agriculture for land preparation, rehabilitation of soil plant lab and others. 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