The Senate has raised issues over N4.2b appropriated in the 2024 budget as personnel cost for unverifiable workers at Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited.
The issue about workers that cannot be verified at the moribund steel company came to the fore during an investigative hearing on alleged incidents of corruption and inefficiency in Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and National Iron Ore Mining Company from 2002 to date, by an Ad-hoc committee of the Senate.
The Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP Kogi Central), took on the sole administrator of the steel firm, Summaila Abdul Akaba, on the number of workers collecting salaries from the N4.2b appropriated for personnel cost in the 2024 budget.
