Anenih, Alison-Madueke, Others Robbed Nigeria Of N234bn 4 Road Construction..!

How Anenih, Alison-Madueke, Others Robbed Nigeria Of N234bn Meant For Road Construction-PREMIUM TIMES

Sahara Reporters
December 22, 2012


                      Anthony Anenih & Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke

Despite his indictment, Mr. Anenih has now been appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to head the NPA board.

Tony Anenih, recently re-appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to head the board of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, does not have a clean past in managing public funds, a 2009 senate report said.

In December 2009, a damning report detailing how Mr. Anenih, a former works minister and then leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), allegedly mismanaged billions of naira meant for the rehabilitation and construction of Nigerian roads, was listed for debate – for the third time in a row – by the Senate.

The transport probe report is filled with revelations of alleged serial malpractices, and shows how, in 10 years (1999 to 2009), through multiple contract inflation frauds, connivance between contractors and government officials, some N645 billion was spent on 4,752 kilometres of road; shortchanging the government to the tune of N49 million on each kilometre of road worked on, amounting to approximately N233 billion.

The report, produced by a senate ad-hoc committee on transportation, led by Heineken Lokpobiri, blamed Anenih and his successors in the ministry, for the poor state of Nigerian highways during the period and called for their prosecution.

The report contains details of what its authors said was one of the nation’s largest portfolio of official scams at the time.
In the 10-year period, work was done on only 4,752 kilometres of roads for N645.8 billion, at very high cost of N135.8 million per kilometre, defrauding the government N49 million on each kilometre.

The report said that under the reign of Tony Anenih, Adeseye Ogunlewe, Obafemi Anibaba and Cornelius Adebayo, road contracts were awarded depending only on estimates that were submitted by the bidding contractors, without prior design by the ministry.

The current Petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who – as minister of Transportation and Works – literally wept while inspecting the condition of the Benin-Ore road, was also indicted in the report.

The panel said Mrs. Alison-Madueke paid more than N1.2 billion into the private account of a company called Digital Toll Gates Limited, against the written advice of the Due Process Office.

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Posted: at 23-12-2012 06:27 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

They should go arrest them na

Posted: at 23-12-2012 08:58 AM (12 years ago) | Hero

If 9aija government is working they should give all of them 99years jail..........after they pay some of the money back........shamles idiots

Posted: at 23-12-2012 04:19 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Posted: at 24-12-2012 07:12 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac