Another Arms Deal Report of Looting That Will Make Nigerians Cry Released
The third between time report of the presidential advisory group on review of Defense from 2007 to 2015 was discharged on Thursday night by President Muhammadu Buhari, demonstrating at the end of the day humongous, coldhearted assault of our nation by Senior military officers, safeguard temporary workers and government workers who teamed up with the pen looters.
As indicated by an announcement by the President of the Presidential Committee on the Audit of Defense Equipment Procurement in the Armed Forces, AVM Jon Ode found that the two organizations gathered N5,103,500,000.00 speaking to 86% of the aggregate estimation of the 3 contracts worth N5,940,000,000.00, however just performed to the tune of N2,992,183,705.31.
In another example, two contracts were honored to Baram International Nigeria Limited, adding up to N420,726,799.20 for the obtainment of 53 Armored Vehicles Spare Parts at the expense of N169,916,849.77 and that of Ballistic Vests, Night Vision Binoculars, and 3 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at the expense of N250,809,949.50. Unfortunately, the agreement worth N169,916,849.77 with 90 days culmination time is yet to be finished 5 years after.
Thus, between 29 April 2005 and 19 October 2010, the MOD honored 2 contracts to Progress Limited for the supply of 42 units of BTR-3U Armored Personnel Carriers and extra parts for the Nigerian Army. Nonetheless, neither the MOD nor the NA could give the agreement understandings to find out the expense of the APCs.
In spite of the fact that 26 of the APCs were conveyed in 2007 and instantly sent for Peace Keeping Operations in Sudan, the APCs shamefully separated on incitement. The Committee watched that the APCs did not meet the operational prerequisite for the Army, brought on Nigeria universal humiliation and denied her fitting repayment from the United Nations.
Regarding contracts recompensed specifically by the Nigerian Army, the Committee found that a hefty portion of the agreements was portrayed by the absence of due procedure, in the break of surviving acquirement controls and spoiled by degenerate practices. In such manner, a survey of the acquirement completed by Chok Ventures Ltd and Integrated Equipment Services Ltd built up that between March 2011 and December 2013, the 2 organizations only secured different sorts of Toyota and Mitsubishi vehicles worth over N3,000,000,000.00 for the Nigerian Army with no aggressive offering. Despite the fact that the Committee found no trustworthy confirmation of conveyance of the vehicles, the merchants were completely paid in light of occupation fulfillment declaration verified by the then Chief of Logistics.
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Likewise, investigations of the different banks records of the two organizations indicated exchanges to people
identified with the then Chief of Army Staff.
The Committee likewise noticed that between 3 September 2014 and 30 April 2015, NIMASA financed records of the Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield with different wholes totaling N8,542,586,798.58 purportedly to upgrade operations of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta. Examinations of the records of the Joint Task Force demonstrated that exchanges totaling N6,277,698,885.13 were produced using the record. The then JTF Commander couldn't legitimize these exchanges, however, affirmed that the entireties were changed into dollars and gave over to a private subject. Moreover, he couldn't represent the equalization of N2,264,887,914.45.
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