Contract Scam On Power Sector Worse Than Robbery - NLC

The Kaduna State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Danladi Bissalah, has said that the on-going revelations before the House of Representatives Committee Public Hearing on Power and Steel were more than day light robbery.

He insisted that a situation where billions of Naira had been spent without commensurate improvement in the power sector was not only tragic but criminally rooted. The labour leader, who spoke at the official inauguration of the multi-million naira office complex constructed by Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT) Endwell Scheme in Kaduna at the weekend, said that it is difficult to believe that contractors could collect funds without executing the project on which such money was made for.

He said the monumental fraud in the power sector was an indication that the immediate past government of former president Obasanjo was full of corruption that is worse than armed robbery, adding that the culprits should not only be made to refund the monies but should as well be punished. Full Story