Edo State government on Sunday stated the reasons it had decided to probe the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, over the award of contracts for the construction of structures and supply of equipment to Benin Central Hospital.
The contract was awarded under Oshiomhole as the state governor.
The government, according to a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor of Edo State on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Cruise Osage, took the decision following a number of petitions calling for the action.
According to him, a panel of enquiry will therefore be set up to carry out the probe.
He explained that the petitions border on poor execution of the project and alleged fraud.
His words: “The state government will investigate allegations of fraud and irregularities with the contract for procurement of the hospital equipment…
“The contractors who handled the building had questions to answer including the shoddy jobs done among others.”
He said the panel would find out why the equipment contracted were yet to be supplied among other anomalies.
