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NDDC In Fresh Financial Scandal As Senate Uncovers Payment Of N698m To Ghost ‘Retired Generals’
The Management of Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), seems to be in a fresh messy financial scandal as the Senate says it has uncovered how the commission paid Retired Generals for regional security surveillance of the Commission’s N698m projects without evidence of service delivery.
The Committee claimed it discovered that the contract for the surveillance was not subjected to open competitive bidding according to Public Procurement Act 2007 24 (1).
The query reads: “It was observed from the payment documents that between January 2017 and June 2018 that the sum of N698 million were expended or transferred to private security consultants for the ‘Regional Security’ Surveillance of NDDC projects in Niger Delta.
“Engaging private security outfits in this volatile terrain is highly doubtful as they cannot be better than the Nigerian Military, police, NSCDC who are always at the service of the Commission.
“The audit team made relentless efforts to site the contract files of the security consultants with the view to verifying the term of engagement and the NSCDC clearance proved abortive.
“Thus, making it very difficult or if not impossible to verify this claim as many of the purported private security consultants are not security outfits.
“Audit inspection at the Niger Delta states offices and subsequent visitations to the project site could not on site, and for those few that were on the site , only Setraco Nig.Ltd had soldiers on ground without the presence of the security as claimed .
“Therefore, these are viewed as payment for services not executed contrary to Financial Regulations 708&3104.
“The Management should ensure that the consultants refund the sum of N689 million babe furnish the office of the Auditor General for the Federation with evidence of recovery for authentication.”
(Report, excluding headline: The EagleOnline)
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