Nigeria, May 17 -- The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has dismissed a report by an organisation identified as TrackNG linking him to the construction and furnishing of an ultra-modern conference and e-learning facility in Abia State.

In a statement signed by his media aide, Udora Orizu, on Saturday, Mr Kalu said the report wrongly linked him to the implementation and supervision of the project captured in the 2024 federal government budget.

Mr Orizu described the publication as misleading and politically motivated.

He explained that the constitutional responsibility of lawmakers is limited to attracting developmental projects to their constituencies, stressing that legislators neither serve as procuring ...