ICPC raids office of Nigeria's surveyor-general enmeshed in corruption scandals - Premium Times Nigeria

Operatives of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, ICPC, on Wednesday, raided the office of Nigeria’s surveyor-general over suspected corrupt practices, including allegations of contract frauds and theft of public asset.

”Yes we had an operation there on Wednesday, and we arrested some person, the action was in furtherance of an existing investigation,” she said, declining to provide more details of the person arrested.”But whether the action has something to do with him or not, personally I have no idea.”We learnt that surveyor-general had left office before the raid.

“After a careful examination of all the payment vouchers for the period that were presented for audit inspection, it was observed that the above-listed payments were made without raising any payment vouchers in violation of FR 601 which stipulated that ‘…under no circumstance shall a cheque be raised or cash paid for services of which a voucher has not been raised.’,” according to the audit inspection report.

In one case, N170 million contract for the acquisition of unmanned aerial system for surveying and mapping, including software training, was awarded to M. Yahaya and Associates instead of Quest Consolidated Ltd approved in the certificate of ‘no objection’ by the Bureau of Public Procurement. Even then, auditors reported that the surveyor-general’s office’s store ledger showed no record the equipment was received.

The two vehicles, Toyota Hilux double cabin, were acquired for separate projects in Borno State and Ogun State. The contractors, M Yahaya and Quest Consolidated, were reported to have returned the vehicles upon completion of the projects.

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