The audit report stated that one of the CSR projects estimated at N6 million was awarded for N19 million including the purchase of 50 bags of rice at N65,000 each when the market value was actually N18,000.
The report stated that there “was poor expenditure control in 2017 and high probability that the spending was not done in economic manner” under Usman.
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Signed by Comrade Olayiwole Oke, Comrade Charles Dike and Comrade Musa Yola, the petition submitted to the EFCC copied the Chairman of the agency, several line directors and media organizations across the country.
In the petition sighted by The Street Journal, Mrs. Bala-Usman who oversaw activities of the NPA for the past five years was accused of awarding cargo surveys contracts to unqualified companies and to self through her brother, Attahiru, and acolytes for 10 years.
She was also accused of maladministration and high-handedness where she took drastic decisions which her subjects dared not questioned.
Below is the petition submitted to the EFCC
Nigerian Ports Stakeholders Petition EFCC, Police IG Over Missing N20billion Under Suspended MD, Hadiza Usman
They urged the agencies to carry out a detailed investigation of the NPA in their petition which they copied to the office of the President, among others.
by Saharareporters, New York
May 10, 2021
Some stakeholders in the Nigerian ports have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman over the alleged disappearance of over N20 billion under her watch.
In a petition signed by the stakeholders, Comrades Olayiwole Oke, Charles Dike and Musa Yola, and obtained by SaharaReporters, the stakeholders noted that a “mind-boggling N20 billion of NPA’s financial transactions between 2016 and 2018 could not be traced, documented, or explained.”