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 Buhari orders probe of Ex-Service Chiefs, serving officers, companies over military procurements...

 (including full list of officers, companies recommended by the committee established to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and the Defense sector from 2007 to 2015 )

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to carry out further investigation into the misconduct established against some retired and serving officers of the Nigerian Air Force and the Nigerian Army. So also did the President ask the EFCC to probe the roles of some companies in the suspected foul play allegedly committed. The position of Buhari followed the submission of the audit committee’s second interim report. There were said to have been fundamental breaches associated with the procurements by the Office of the National Security Adviser and the Nigerian Air Force. The full list of military personnel for

probe:

 (1)Air Chief Marshal AS Badeh (Rtd)

(2)Air Marshal MD Umar (Rtd)

 (3)Air Marshal AN Amosu (Rtd)

 (4) Maj-Gen. ER Chioba (Rtd)

 (5)AVM IA Balogun (Rtd)

(6)AVM AG Tsakr (Rtd)

 (7)AVM AG Idowu (Rtd)

 (8)AVM AM Mamu

 (9)AVM OT Oguntoyinbo

 (10)AVM T Omenyi

(11)AVM JB Adigun

(12)AVM RA Ojuawo

 (13)AVM JA Kayode-Beckley

(12)Air Cdre SA Yushau (Rtd)

 (13)Air Cdre AO Ogunjobi

 (14)Air Cdre GMD Gwani

 (15)Air Cdre SO Makinde

(16)Air Cdre AY Lassa

(16)Col N Ashinze

(17)Lt Col. MS Dasuki (Rtd).

 Also  companies  to be probed are as follows:

 (1)Messrs Societe D’ Equipments Internationaux

 (2) Himma Aboubakar

(3)Aeronautical Engineering and Technical Services Limited

 (4)Messrs Syrius Technologies

(5) Dr Theresa A. Ittu

(6)Sky Experts Nig Ltd (7)Omenyi Ifeanyi Tony

 (8)Huzee Nig Ltd

 (9)GAT Techno Dynamics Ltd

(10) Gbujie Peter Obie

 (11) Onuri Samuel Ugochukwu

 (12)Spacewebs Interservices Ltd

 (13)Oguntoyinbo Tayo

 (14) Oguntoyinbo Funmi.

 (15) Delfina Oil and Gas Ltd

 (16)Chief Jacobs Bola

(17)Mono Marine Corporation Nig Ltd

 (18)Geonel Intergrated Services Ltd

(20)Sachi Felicia (20) Mudaki Polycarp

(21)Wolfgang Reinl.

The breaches identified by the Audit Committee included non- specification of procurement costs, absence of contract agreements, award of contracts beyond authorised thresholds, transfer of public funds for unidentified purposes and general non-adherence to provisions of the Public Procurement Act. Furthermore, the procurement processes were arbitrarily carried out and generally characterized by irregularities and fraud, the committee said. In many cases, the procured items were said to have failed to meet the purposes they were procured for, especially the counter insurgency efforts in the North East. A major procurement activity undertaken by the ONSA for the NAF was that concerning the contracts awarded to Societe D’ Equipment Internationaux (SEI) Nigeria Limited. Between January 2014 and February 2015, the NAF awarded 10 contracts totalling Nine Hundred and Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand, Six Hundred and Ninety US Dollars ($930,500,690.00) to SEI Nigeria Limited. Letters of award and End User Certificates for all the contracts issued by NAF and ONSA respectively did not reflect the contract sums. Rather, these were only found in the vendor’s invoices, all dated March 19, 2015. Additionally, some of the award letters contained misleading delivery dates, suggesting fraudulent intent in the award process. The observed discrepancies are in clear contravention of extant procurement regulations. The SEI contracts included procurement of two used Mi-24V Helicopters instead of the recommended Mi-35M series at the cost of One Hundred and Thirty Six Million, Nine Hundred and Forty Four Thousand US Dollars ($136,944,000.00).

…….to be continued