It has been revealed that the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) became a centre of misery entrepreneurship under the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, with companies raking in, through fraudulent procurement process, billions of Naira and paying kickbacks to the embattled cabinet secretary. This was revealed through bank documents and the report of the Senate Committee on the Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North East, according to Gistmania Gistmania had a rare access to the report which sums up the evidence the Senate submitted to the Yemi Osinbajo-led presidential investigative committee probing allegations of contract fraud and breach of due process against Mr. Lawal. The report is due for presentation before the Senate this week. PINE was established to help coordinate and lead efforts at rebuilding infrastructure and rehabilitate millions of victims of Boko Haram insurgency that has devastated Nigeria’s North East. About 100,000 people have died since the insurgency began in 2009, according to official figures. As shown in the Senate report – with evidences of bank transactions as well as Central Bank of Nigeria, Corporate Affairs Commission and Bureau of Public Procurement documents – Some of the beneficiaries paid parts of the proceeds of the contracts to Mr. Lawal’s company and his private account in tranches. After receiving payments from PINE, at least five companies separately paid about N450 million to the Eco Bank account (182001809) of Rholavision Engineering Limited owned by Mr. Lawal according to CAC and self-admission, and his private account (0003004417) with Diamond Bank, bank statements showed. According to a Naijapals confirmation attached to the report, Mr. Lawal was still the signatory to the account of Rholavision until February 15, 2017 which shares the same Bank Verification Number with his personal account and 13 other accounts in commercial banks. The transfers were made in tranches, mostly N10 million per transaction, and N47 million on the last day. For the “grass-cutting” contract, Mr. Lawal’s Rholavision was awarded the consultancy contract on March 8, 2016, while the owner was in the service of the government as federal cabinet secretary, in breach of Nigeria’s code of conduct for public officers and the Public Procurement Act. But apart from that contract which formed the basis of the call by the Senate that Mr. Lawal be removed and prosecuted by President Muhammadu Buhari last December, the suspended SGF was also into other fraudulent deals with companies using PINE as conduit pipe. Also Messrs Adamawa Boreholes and Drilling Companies Ltd transferred N18 million to Mr. Lawal’s company, after clinching N54.8 million contract to renovate seven classrooms at Yeskule Girls Secondary School, Michika Adamawa State. Similarly, Barde Brothers Multi-Services Limited which was also awarded seven contracts to renovate classrooms in Adamawa State for N145 million returned N71 million to Mr. Lawal’s company account on October 10, 2016, and another N13 million between July 7, 2016 and September 9, 2016 to his private account. Procurement Without Regard For Law Between November 2015 and July 2016, the agency received over eight billion naira (N8,352,865,587), out of which N6.8 billion was expended on projects and N231.5 million on recurrent expenditures. PINE, according to the report of the Senate committee, “awarded 39 contracts to various companies to carry out the removal of invasive plant species plants, rehabilitation/renovation works, food supplies, consultancy services and provision of shelter (supply of tarpaulin cabins) etc.” But the committee found that all the contracts were “awarded under the principle of emergency procurement stipulated in section 43 (i) and (ii) but absolute disregard for sub-section (iii) of the same section 43 of the Public Procurement Act.” The report added that PINE had no evidence of having the approval of the Federal Executive Council for contracts above N50 million as envisaged by the procurement law. Mr. Lawal, now on suspension, is currently being probed by the presidential investigative committee. But officials of PINE, especially the boss, Umar Gulani, may also face the wrath of the law. During the public hearing of the Senate committee last year, Mr. Gulani could not account for how billions released to his agency were utilized. As officials and their accomplices in the private sector stole funds meant for victims of war, over 400 thousand children face acute malnutrition in the North East, according to UNICEF, which says 134 children could die daily in the circumstance of no action. “Some 65,000 people are in famine-like conditions, the worst level of food insecurity, and facing starving to death for lack of food. It is a very unique situation in the world,” UNICEF said.
Posted: at 3-05-2017 10:27 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Hausa people are very very wicked,look at people that boko haram have completely destroyed, yet their politicians are cashing in on them,somebody like zaki68 will shamelessly want hausa Fulani Muslim to continue to rule this country
Posted: at 3-05-2017 10:51 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
I DONT THINK HAUSA MAN HAS EVER RULED NIGERIA IN RECENT TIMES BUT YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE LETS START WITH GOWON HIS IS FROM PLATEAU STATE AND A CHRISTIAN, THEN MURITALA MOHAMMED HIS WAS A FULANI MAN, THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN SHEHU SHAGARI A FULANI MAN FROM SOKOTO, THEN BUHARI A FULANI MAN, THEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA A NUPEL MAN, COME ERNEST SHONEKAN YORUBA MAN, THEN SANI ABACHA A KANURI MAN, ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR HAUSA MAN.THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN UMARU YAR,ADUA FULANI MAN, THEN GOODLUCK IJAW MAN, NOW BUHARI FULANI MAN. YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS ONLY ONCE HAUSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA AND ONLY FOR ONE YEAR.GET YOUR FACTS CLEAR THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. ITS LIKE SAYING A BENIN PERSON AND IGBO ARE THE SAME.
Posted: at 3-05-2017 11:26 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
Hausa people are very very wicked,look at people that boko haram have completely destroyed, yet their politicians are cashing in on them,somebody like zaki68 will shamelessly want hausa Fulani Muslim to continue to rule this country
I DONT THINK HAUSA MAN HAS EVER RULED NIGERIA IN RECENT TIMES BUT YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE LETS START WITH GOWON HIS IS FROM PLATEAU STATE AND A CHRISTIAN, THEN MURITALA MOHAMMED HIS WAS A FULANI MAN, THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN SHEHU SHAGARI A FULANI MAN FROM SOKOTO, THEN BUHARI A FULANI MAN, THEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA A NUPEL MAN, COME ERNEST SHONEKAN YORUBA MAN, THEN SANI ABACHA A KANURI MAN, ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR HAUSA MAN.THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN UMARU YAR,ADUA FULANI MAN, THEN GOODLUCK IJAW MAN, NOW BUHARI FULANI MAN. YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS ONLY ONCE HAUSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA AND ONLY FOR ONE YEAR.GET YOUR FACTS CLEAR THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. ITS LIKE SAYING A BENIN PERSON AND IGBO ARE THE SAME.
Posted: at 3-05-2017 11:27 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
dynasty4all at 3-05-2017 11:50 AM (8 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Zaki68 on 3-05-2017 11:26 AM
I DONT THINK HAUSA MAN HAS EVER RULED NIGERIA IN RECENT TIMES BUT YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE LETS START WITH GOWON HIS IS FROM PLATEAU STATE AND A CHRISTIAN, THEN MURITALA MOHAMMED HIS WAS A FULANI MAN, THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN SHEHU SHAGARI A FULANI MAN FROM SOKOTO, THEN BUHARI A FULANI MAN, THEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA A NUPEL MAN, COME ERNEST SHONEKAN YORUBA MAN, THEN SANI ABACHA A KANURI MAN, ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR HAUSA MAN.THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN UMARU YAR,ADUA FULANI MAN, THEN GOODLUCK IJAW MAN, NOW BUHARI FULANI MAN. YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS ONLY ONCE HAUSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA AND ONLY FOR ONE YEAR.GET YOUR FACTS CLEAR THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. ITS LIKE SAYING A BENIN PERSON AND IGBO ARE THE SAME.
TRASH FULANI/HAUSA ARE THE SAME
Posted: at 3-05-2017 11:50 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
I DONT THINK HAUSA MAN HAS EVER RULED NIGERIA IN RECENT TIMES BUT YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE LETS START WITH GOWON HIS IS FROM PLATEAU STATE AND A CHRISTIAN, THEN MURITALA MOHAMMED HIS WAS A FULANI MAN, THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN SHEHU SHAGARI A FULANI MAN FROM SOKOTO, THEN BUHARI A FULANI MAN, THEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA A NUPEL MAN, COME ERNEST SHONEKAN YORUBA MAN, THEN SANI ABACHA A KANURI MAN, ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR HAUSA MAN.THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN UMARU YAR,ADUA FULANI MAN, THEN GOODLUCK IJAW MAN, NOW BUHARI FULANI MAN. YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS ONLY ONCE HAUSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA AND ONLY FOR ONE YEAR.GET YOUR FACTS CLEAR THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. ITS LIKE SAYING A BENIN PERSON AND IGBO ARE THE SAME. Kindly educate us more on the language that all these people that u mentioned speak...is it not Hausa language... Its just when I tell u that somebody that is from abia state is not the Igbo,because our dialects are not d same.they are all the same ........I just want u to know that Hausa people have done this country more harm than good.look at how buhari has destroyed Nigeria,is this babachir lawal not his good friend? Yet corruption is taking place under his watch,what we we need is an educated young man from the south to move this nation forward..
Posted: at 3-05-2017 12:01 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
I DONT THINK HAUSA MAN HAS EVER RULED NIGERIA IN RECENT TIMES BUT YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE LETS START WITH GOWON HIS IS FROM PLATEAU STATE AND A CHRISTIAN, THEN MURITALA MOHAMMED HIS WAS A FULANI MAN, THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN SHEHU SHAGARI A FULANI MAN FROM SOKOTO, THEN BUHARI A FULANI MAN, THEN IBRAHIM BABANGIDA A NUPEL MAN, COME ERNEST SHONEKAN YORUBA MAN, THEN SANI ABACHA A KANURI MAN, ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR HAUSA MAN.THEN OBASANJO YORUBA MAN, THEN UMARU YAR,ADUA FULANI MAN, THEN GOODLUCK IJAW MAN, NOW BUHARI FULANI MAN. YOU CAN IMAGINE FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS ONLY ONCE HAUSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA AND ONLY FOR ONE YEAR.GET YOUR FACTS CLEAR THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. ITS LIKE SAYING A BENIN PERSON AND IGBO ARE THE SAME.
For once I liked your comment to be sincere and can I copy this and post because this is interesting ;
Posted: at 3-05-2017 03:56 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
YOUNG AND EDUCATED LIKE GOODLUCK WHO BASICALLY DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY CORRUPTION, ANYWAY YOU ARE A LOCAL OKORO IGBO SO IGBOS LIKE YOU LOVE CORRUPT LEADERS.I HAVE A LOT OF BRILLIANT IGBOS WHO ARE MY FRIENDS THEY DISTANCES THEMSELVES FROM OKORO LIKE YOU.
Posted: at 3-05-2017 05:48 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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