KEBBI GOVT DONATES 10 HILUX VEHICLES TO BOOST SECURITY ON SOKOTO–BADAGRY SUPER HIGHWAY. (PHOTOS).

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 Kebbi Govt Donates 10 Hilux Vehicles to Boost Security on Sokoto–Badagry Super Highway  The Kebbi State Government has handed over 10 brand-new Hilux vehicles to the Federal Ministry of Works to strengthen security for personnel working on the Sokoto–Badagry Super Highway project. The vehicles were formally received by the Minister of State for Works, Bello Muhammad Goronyo, who praised Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Nasiru Idris (Kauran Gwandu), for the donation. Goronyo described the gesture as a clear demonstration of the state government’s commitment to protecting workers and contractors on the strategic highway corridor. He explained that the vehicles will be deployed exclusively to security operatives providing cover for construction teams along the section of the super highway passing through Kebbi State. The Sokoto–Badagry Super Highway is a multi-state infrastructure project aimed at improving connectivity and economic activities across northern and southern Nigeria. More...

EX-ABU PROCUREMENT OFFICER JAILED FOR FRAUD.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.

 

The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 secured the conviction of one Danjuma Musa before Justice Peter Mallong of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna on a one count amended charge that bordered on procurement fraud.
The charge reads, “That you, Danjuma Musa (while being a procurement Officer of Ahmadu Bello University) sometime in 2016 at Zaria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entered a collusive agreement with Gboye Surgical Equipment to inflate the prices tendered for the supply of drugs and laboratory reagents, contracts awarded by Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria which would not have been the case had there not been collusion between you and Gboye Surgical Equipment and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 58(4)(a) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007, and punishable under Section 58(6)(a) and (b) of the same Act".
When the charge was read to him, the defendant pleaded guilty.
Justice Mallong consequently convicted and sentenced the defendant to a fine equivalent to 25% of the value of the procurement in issue, amounting to N686,540.043 (Six Hundred and Eighty-six Thousand, Five Hundred and Fifty Naira, and Forty-three Kobo). He is also barred from all public procurements for a period not less than five calendar years.
The convict has already paid the sum of N 1,668,770.00 (One Million, Six Hundred Sixty- eight Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy Naira) as restitution to the complainant.

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