{"id":17360,"date":"2019-04-30T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17360"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:23:07","slug":"dino-melayes-publication-of-n1-5-billion-payment-voucher-raises-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17360","title":{"rendered":"Dino Melaye&#8217;s publication of N1.5 billion payment voucher raises dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of a payment voucher for a N1.5 billion project in Lokoja, Kogi State that is yet to face-off three years after, is raising dust on Twitter.<br \/>\nPublished on Senator Dino Melaye&#8217;s verified Twitter handle, the project is for an overhead bridge at Ganaja, a traffic-snarl spot for those headed to parts of Kogi Central and Kogi East Senatorial Districts as well as the Eastern flank of the country.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17362\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17362\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot_20190430-112110-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The voucher<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMany praised Melaye for the revelation, though one asked him to publish the monies he got for constituency projects since 2015, and how he spent them.<br \/>\nThough Senators do not actually get paid for these projects, they influence the insertion of the projects in the federal government&#8217;s budget and &#8220;push&#8221; relevant government agencies to award and execute the projects. Some have been known to influence the choice of contractoes they turn around to connive with to stall the projects.<br \/>\nMany prodded the Kogi West Senator to continue his whistle-blowing activities, while others criticised his meddlesomeness.<br \/>\nGovernor Yahaya Bello has come under intense criticism in the build-up to gubernatorial elections in Kogi State in November. He has been accused of financial mismanagement, while owing workers for upwards of 38 months.<br \/>\nBut he continues to insist his hands are clean, and he owes workers for only four months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of a payment voucher for a N1.5 billion project in Lokoja, Kogi State that is yet to face-off three years after, is raising dust on Twitter. Published on Senator Dino Melaye&#8217;s verified Twitter handle, the project is for an overhead bridge at Ganaja, a traffic-snarl spot for those headed to parts of Kogi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}