BCDA HEADED BY BUHARI’S IN-LAW CAUGHT IN ANOTHER MASSIVE PROCUREMENT FRAUD

BCDA HEADED BY BUHARI’S IN-LAW CAUGHT IN ANOTHER MASSIVE PROCUREMENT FRAUD

Statistically, not less than  815 contractors were shortlisted by the Border Communities Development Agency (BDCA) for hundreds of constituency projects despite failing to meet federal contracting requirements, an ongoing investigation by a news agency has revealed.

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It is the second time in less than a month that the agency has been exposed to procurement irregularity.

Being shortlisted shows that an applicant has satisfied all criteria contained in the procurement guidelines published by a government agency for the award of contracts.

But a new set of procurement documents supervised by a news agency disclosed that the bulk of the prequalified contractors for the 2018 intervention projects by lawmakers did not meet the most fundamental requirements spelt out in the invitation to tender advert released by the BDCA in August 2018.

According to a news agency, the agency advertised nearly 400 self-enrichment projects of lawmakers for which funds were earmarked in the 2018 budget.

However, the Nigerian government’s anti-corruption posturing could be undermined if officials at the BDCA are allowed to go ahead with the flawed contracting process in brazen defiance of the country’s extant procurement regulations. The value of the contracts ranges between N10 million and N200 million.

The inlaw of president Buhari, Junaid Abdullahi, is the executive secretary of the federal interventionist agency established in 2003 to develop the country’s border communities.

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The agency has the power to provide social and infrastructural amenities to international border communities in 21 states of the federation, spanning over 105 local government areas