N3.48b NDDC contract: EFCC closes in on Senator

A Nigerian Senator has come under the searchlight of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for using his influence to corner N3.4 billion jobs for himself, using companies licensed by family members, friends and associates to secure the questionable jobs.

The Senator (name withheld) who is already in court with the EFCC for supplying used equipment to a Southern State in place of new ones and using the money to purchase a monumental building in Lagos, is being probed by the anti-graft agency for influence peddling, breach of public trust and abuse of the public procurement Act in the award of the multi-million contract for the ‘provision of plastic chairs and desks for primary and secondary schools in nine states of the Niger Delta-Abia, Imo, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo and Delta.

Saturday Vanguard gathered that trouble started for the Senator when the EFCC received a petition on the fraudulent NDDC contract award from anti-corruption group, which alleged that the said contract did not pass through any bidding process as prescribed by law.

The petitioners, Anti-Corruption Group and Integrity Forum, a group interested in promoting good governance, transparency and sustenance of the rule of law in Nigeria, raised the alarm that the Senator virtually used his position as the Chairman of a powerful Senate Committee to force the NDDC to hand over the huge jobs covering the nine states to him.

Vanguard, March 3, 2018

 

 

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