Kwara's N70b rice deal sparks row

FEW hours after it was announced with fanfare, the N70 billion agriculture deal between the Kwara State government and a Spanish consortium is generating controversy.An opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) claims that the project is a monumental fraud and that the purported consortium is not a registered company in Spain.The state government however denies the allegations, disclosing that it exercised due diligence, both in Nigeria and in Spain, in the process of selecting the consortium and other ancillary activities.
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