Sokoto River Basin Procurement Scandal: How Agency Violated Law, Awarded Multi-Million Naira For Unexecuted Fraudulent Contract

An investigation by Elijah Akoji of PlatinumPost has uncovered how Nigerian government agencies have continuously violated procurement rules in awarding contracts, actions that have helped undermine development and breed corruption. And this has continued to be the practice despite the existence of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 and Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 which criminalize the award of contracts in violation of procurement rules.

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