In a request to President Muhammadu Buhari marked by its National Coordinator, Victor Giwa, the gathering blamed the workplace for the SSA to the President on MDGs of arrangements to occupy a portion of the N15bn asset discharged for the installment of the contractual workers by honoring new contracts to themselves and accomplices.
It additionally blamed the workplace for the SSA to the President on MDGs of deliberately declining and fail to pay the temporary workers.
The bunch's request to President Buhari peruses: "The outline of the actualities is that sure Nigerians, specialists and little scale entrepreneurs and businesses of work had in 2013/2014 awaited and won various contracts under the OSSAP on MDGs for different works in every one of the conditions of Nigeria. The agreements were executed, assessed and affirmation was given by the significant power and guarantees activity issued for ahead installment.
"Sir, rather than brief installment of the contractual workers, who had by their letter of recompenses, looked for and got advances and other credit offices from different bank for the execution of the venture, the previous SSAP enjoyed specific installment, control and reserve preoccupation, paying a small add up to the genuine temporary workers.
He noted: "After arrangement of exceptional weight and disturbance from these contractual workers and the mediation of the previous Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Iweala, in 2014, the then SSAP, joined these temporary workers' liabilities in the estimation of 15 billion naira, in the 2015 spending plan of her office, under the sub head MDG Intervention 1 and 2 and the contract based workers were appease to sit tight for the discharge.
"It is stunning that while the OSSAP is currently in receipt of the said whole through a warrant of discharge dated December 8, 2015, under the sub head MDG Intervention 1 and 2, officers of the OSSAP have fizzled, decline and fail to pay the said temporary workers their full entirety. Be that as it may, have somewhat occupied with preoccupation of this asset into grant of new contracts, for individual increases. This is in clear break of the Fiscal Responsibility and Financial (Control and Management) Acts, Laws of the Federation.
"All the more along these lines, the authorities even in the recompense of the new contract, have shamelessly debased the express procurements of area 30 (an e) of Public Procurement Act, in that they neither allowed bidders or participants to watch the offering procedure nor did they bring about every one of the offers to be made in the open.
"It's is further inquisitive that the OSSAP-MDGS knowing very well indeed that we have just yet two weeks to the end of the 2015 monetary year, are still set on proceeding with the acquirement prepare that is definitely not extortion.
"All supplications for the OSSAP to channel the assets into selling its liabilities to its temporary workers have been met with a reason that the Projects are implied for the Members of the National Assembly.
"The constitution of Nigeria is clear that while the Assembly Appropriates the Executive Implements so we are at a misfortune on how it has now turned into the obligations of the National Assembly to demand the usage of ventures that are sure to come up short and that will just prompt expanding the officially over bloated liabilities of the Federal Government.
"Hence, we are looking for the accompanying requests to God: (i).Immediate installment of the appropriately owed contractual workers through the MDG Intervention 1 and 2 discharges; (ii) Outright cancelation or stoppage of the recompense of new contracts."
In the interim, the government has said the poor condition of the nation's economy, particularly the deterioration in the Naira swapping scale, is the immediate result of the limitless blunder of the economy and the careless plundering of the national treasury under the quick past organization of Goodluck Jonathan
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