The ad-hoc committee set up by the House of Representatives to investigate the utilization of Ecological Funds and other intervention funds of the Great Green Wall Project on Wednesday berated the National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) over its claim that it spent N81bn to plant 21 million trees in the frontline states in the northern states of Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.
The Director-General of NAGWW, Yusuf Maina Bukar, had told the committee that the agency also spent N697.71m on renovation of office accommodation and N11.28bn on capital projects.
Bukar revealed that the main funding of the agency was from 15 per cent of the Ecological Funds and the federal allocation as well as other sources for its operations.
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Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Isma’ila Haruna Dabo and its members averred that the NAGGW spent monies without commensurate results, noting that the agency deviated from its core mandate.
“Projects such as the Great Green Wall under investigation here were designed primarily to address some of these issues", he said.
According to him, the continuous challenges of the programme despite funds put into it from both the federal government and international partners has necessitated this investigation.
“In recent years, we have witnessed a significant upsurge in natural environmental challenges such as land degradation, deforestation, desertification and drought, which most times are explained away with the context of climate change”, he added.
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