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… Names15 companies allegedly used as conduit-pipe
Peace Advocacy group, the Movement for Sustainable Development of the Niger Delta (MSDND) has provided evidence on the alleged fraudulent acts that led to the 2019 vandalisation and looting of the Presidential Amnesty Training Centre in Boro-town of Kaiama in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government area of Bayelsa State.
The Group, which had last week visited the site of the abandoned Amnesty Training Center and called on the Federal Government to facilitate the rebuilding of the center, announced that the audio and documented evidences available will be submitted to the Bayelsa State Police Command and the Economic and Financial crime Commission (EFCC) to assist in bringing those behind the allege looting of the center to book.
The National Coordinator of the group, Chief Ayibatekena Olodin, noted that despite the released audio evidence of the former Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) of the Amnesty Office, Mr. Ilem Unam and his Deputy, Mr. Andy Akpan, in their patriotic quest to fight against fraud and corruption at the Amnesty office, the evidence in possession of the group showed a systematic use of fifteen companies as alleged conduit-pipe for fraudulent procurement and delivery to the looted amnesty centre.
In the letter to the Bayelsa Police Command, the Group alleged that about Fifteen companies listed on the petition submitted to the Police and EFCC including one AKA JAMUB were allegedly being used for purported procurement contract and later loot the Amnesty Centre in Boro-town where procured equipment were stored.
It was also revealed that three (3) companies out of the fingered fifteen (15) companies who operated under the administration of the former Amnesty Coordinator, Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo were allegedly used in seeking federal government contracts at the Amnesty Office were without any form of registration with the Nigeria Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
The group, MSDND, claimed that “these companies were allegedly used to secure contracts, but at the time of payments, they will use their letterheaded papers to write to the Amnesty office and the Amnesty Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA), instructing the DFA to make payments into their main supplier’s accounts which is one of the properly registered companies listed above, because the unregistered companies had no bank accounts.”
MSDND quoted an audio available to them, in the audio, one of the accused contractor was heard threatening the Amnesty Office Director of Finance, Mr. Ilem Unam but Unam rejected the threat and was heard saying “…The money is a total of N4.88 billion. I think the one they are particular about is the N1.8billion. First of all, they awarded it as a distribution contract and I said no, how can you award N1.8billion to one person and there was no Tenders Board?”
“I don’t know when the contract was awarded. As a DFA, I am a statutory member of the tender board. I don’t know when it was awarded. And awarding N1.8billion contract to one person is against the majority interest of the Niger Delta People. I told them if it is, I would not put my hand there; I would not pay.”
“When it didn’t work, they came to meet me. Musa (former Director of Procurement) had the guts to come to me and say he is my senior in the Service. How can a Deputy Director claim he is my senior in the service? I proved to him that he is not my senior. I am his senior. He said if he approved anything, I was not supposed to say no. I told him he didn’t know what he was talking about. I told him to go and look at the financial regulations.”
“The major function of the Director of Finance is that I am a Chief Financial Adviser to the Accounting Officer… They went and changed it. When the money eventually came, they went and repackaged it and gave it a different name. I have all the documents with me here. I refused to pay. I used the money to pay as many that are possible. Can you imagine? They are very heartless! You mean I should leave all those files people have been crying for months and then pay, not only the N1.8billion but a total of N4.88billion…Musa and Brown are their members”.
“They said they would give me N150million; I said I don’t want that kind of money. We all like money but to leave all those files and pay N1.8billion plus other fake ones that are there and give you? For what? I went to go and meet him and he told them, ‘I have told the DFA to pay, he is the one who has refused to pay’… pitching them against me.”
“He (Dokubo) is worse than Boro [General Paul Boroh, former Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme). Very foolish man. When you people begin to pester me, as a Civil Servant, I am not supposed to be opening my mouth to tell what’s going on. You know sometimes I continue to explain and explain, and I begin to tell lies. But you people would not understand. Everyday we get work orders, 99.9, 99.9. I said reduce the value of these contracts”.
The MDSDN however called on the authorities of the EFCC and the Police to opened a detailed investigation into the 2019 looting of the N60billion Presidential Amnesty Training Centre in Boro-Town, Kaiama, Bayelsa State and bring those involved to book.
“We demand that the properties of these individuals and companies be sealed-off and confiscated, pending the outcome of the investigation. Prof. Dokubo and his cronies allegedly orchestrated the criminal and violent looting of the N60Billion training complex in Boro-Town, Kaiama, Bayelsa state, to cover up their fake non-existent supply contracts in excess of N30Billion.”
“We call on the authorities of the EFCC and the Bayelsa State Police Command to invite the following individuals and company executives for questioning on their alleged involvement and or roles played, prior to, and during the violent and mindless looting and vandalisation of the N60billion Amnesty Training Centre which lasted for five (5) uninterrupted days 11th – 15th Feb. 2019 without any security official called, despite the fact that there are Army, Navy, and other military barracks nearby including the Bayelsa State Police Command, but these individuals from Prof. Dokubo down to the Chief Security Officer (CSO) kept it a secret for five (5) days until everything was looted in the state-of-the-art N60billion training complex.”
1. Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo, Former Coordinator, Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme.
2. Aroloyeteim Brown, Former Head of Reintegration of the Presidential Amnesty Programme
3. Lt. Col. Pretel Leghemo, Former Chief Security Officer, Presidential Amnesty Programme
4. Odiniya Johnson Musa, Former Director of Procurement Presidential Amnesty Programme
5. Jacob Aminu Momoh (Prof. Dokubo Alleged Front-Man Notorious Contractor and the 15 companies listed)
6. Former Legal Adviser Mrs. Awotu Patricia Ojakovo,
7. Director of Administration – Mrs. Ubi Umoren Franklyn
The fifteen (15) Companies allegedly included in the fraud which resulted in the looting are:
A. URBAN PROJECTS PROSPECTS INTEGRATED SERVICES LIMITED
B. SMG INTEGRATED PLUS LTD
C. RARE SAPHIRE LIMITED
D. GILT-EDGED SYNDICATE LIMITED
E. IT LOUNGE LIMITED
F. STAGE BY STAGE PROJECT LIMITED
G. CITI HIGH RESOURCES LIMITED
H. JAMUB PROPERTY NIGERIA LIMITED
I. CARSTRAVAGANZA LIMITED
J. JAMUB ENERGY LIMITED
K. SUMMA CUM LAUDE LIMITED
L. JAMUB CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
M. EXPERMOH NIGERIA LIMITED
N. KIZDAVED NIGERIA LIMITED
O. PUNDIT AGRO ALLIED PRODUCTS LIMITED.
The MSDND have commended the efforts of the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (Rtd.) on the commencement of a 3 – day Basic Orientation Course (BOC) at the Nigerian Navy College of Engineering, Sapele, Delta State and training in the business of oil spill response, clean-up and remediation in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The programme which is in tandem with the recently introduced Train, Employ and Mentor (TEM) model is designed to transform ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region to becoming productive and results-oriented entrepreneurs.
This was contained in a statement issued in Yenagoa by its National Coordinator Chief Ayebatekena Olodin. According to him, the initiative is a tactical approach towards achieving economic growth and development in the region. He called on the federal government to provide the required resources to support the efforts of the Amnesty leadership so as to enable it to deliver on its mandate. He noted further that these training opportunities are coming shortly after the deployment of about 400 ex-agitators to various farms in the region to learn various agricultural skills aimed at addressing food shortages in the region, and the nation at large. He expressed commitment to synergize with the Interim Administrator in his task of fixing the Amnesty Programme.