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Interior Minister Breaks Silence Over Contract Scandal
……Minister of Interior, Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, has owned up to been a Shareholders in the New Planet Project Limited, a consultancy firm that got a contract of N438.1million from the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation whose Minister, Dr Betta Edu, has been suspended for alleged graft.
Bunmi-Ojo, who spoke on the Channels Television current affairs programme, Politics Today, monitored in Lagos on Monday said he resigned as director of the company in 2019.
Bunmi-Ojo explained that he was aware that coming to public office, you have to withdraw from other business concerns that will run counter to your office.
“I’m a Shareholders in the company, but I resigned as a director in 2019 when I was going into the house of Representatives. I knew that it’s not allowed.
“The company cannot take contract from my ministry because it will be a conflict of interest. The question to ask is whether the contract they got from the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Was it properly executed? If there is any other issues the company is a private entity, it can defend itself,” he said.
,,,,It will be recalled that New Planet Project Limited, a company founded by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, with registration….number 804833, registered on March 3, 2009, got a contract for N438.1million as a consultant for the National Social Register contract to verify 11million homes in Nigeria.
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