The representative of the Osun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Adelere
Oriolowo, said on Thursday that he was not involved in the execution of the N40m constituency project.
The project is a Zonal Intervention Programme for practical skill development and training of youths and women in fishing recently conducted in selected areas of the senatorial district.
Oriolowo stated this while reacting to media reports that he spent N2.5m instead of the N40m allocated to the project in the 2020 budget.
He told journalists in his office in Abuja that the only role he played in the realisation of the project was to facilitate its inclusion in the 2020 budget to benefit members of his constituency.
The senator said the burden of proof or otherwise of the expenditure remained with the implementation agency and the consultant hired to execute the project.
An independent project monitoring organisation, trackaNG, had on its Twitter handle faulted the claims by Oriolowo on the expenditure of the 2020 constituency projects.