“Similarly, Treasury Circular Ref. No. TRY/A2&A3/2013 OAGF/CAD/026/V.1/188 of 9th April, 2013 emphasized that, “cash advance in excess of N200,000.00 should not be granted to any officer for procurement of goods and services but the procurement should be given out as a contract”.
Philip Salawu is the former Deputy Governor of Kogi State and contested for the Kogi State governorship seat in 2015 under the Labour Party. Philip O. Salawu who is likely a Civil Servant with Kogi State Civil Service received the transfers without any transaction description attached to it, the group alleged .
“There was no specified description for the purpose of the funds. The funds may have been laundered or diverted for other uses other than for public good. This is contrary to Treasury Circular No. TRY/A2&B2/2009/OAGF/CAD026/V of 24th March 2009 which states that “All procurement of stores and services exceeding N200,000.00 shall be made only through the award of contract”.
Similarly, Treasury Circular Ref. No. TRY/A2&A3/2013 OAGF/CAD/026/V.1/188 of 9th April, 2013 emphasized that, “cash advance in excess of N200,000.00 should not be granted to any officer for procurement of goods and services but the procurement should be given out as a contract”.
“There was no specified description for the purpose of the funds. The funds may have been laundered or diverted for other uses other than for public good. This is contrary to Treasury Circular No. TRY/A2&B2/2009/OAGF/CAD026/V of 24th March 2009 which states that “All procurement of stores and services exceeding N200,000.00 shall be made only through the award of contract”.
Similarly, Treasury Circular Ref. No. TRY/A2&A3/2013 OAGF/CAD/026/V.1/188 of 9th April, 2013 emphasized that, “cash advance in excess of N200,000.00 should not be granted to any officer for procurement of goods and services but the procurement should be given out as a contract”.
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“This company was not declared in Nwogu Barikisu’s Code of Conduct Bureau form which contravenes Section 11(1) of the Fifth Schedule, Part 1 of the 1999 Constitution that provides as follows “Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, every public officer shall three months after coming into force of this Code of Conduct or immediately after taking office and thereafter: (a) at the end of every four years, and (b) at the end of his term of office, submit to the Code of Conduct Bureau a written declaration of all his properties, assets and liabilities and those of his unmarried children under the age of eighteen years”.
“That Nwogu Barikisu uses the company to run private business contrary to Section 2(a) which bars a public officer from engaging or participating in the running of any private business, profession, or trade. As a business name, it is not eligible to receive such an amount of money”.
On award of contracts to non-existing companies, the group alleged ” Bright Eyes Montessori School received N25,000,000 (Twenty-
Five Million Naira) from Kogi State VAT account number 0703377229 in 2019 on 27/05/2019.
Top Gas Petroleum Company received the sum of N6,277,500 (Six Million Two Hundred and Seventy-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Naira) from Kogi State IGR Main Account on 30/04/2019.
2 Top Tuny Nigeria Enterprises was paid the sum of N5,000,000 (Five Million Naira) from Kogi State IGR Main Account on 4/10/2019.
Tower Building Product was paid the sum of N5,300,000 (Five Million Three Hundred Thousand Naira) from Kogi State Joint Acct Allocation Committee DSRA Access bank account number 0712750840 on the 27/05/2019″
“It is also a statement of fact that Sycamore Consulting Limited loaned Kogi State Government N11,905,000,000 (Eleven Billion, Nine Hundred and Five Million Naira) on 30th June, 2017 paid into the Kogi State IGR DSRA Access Bank Account Number, which is exactly a week after the first billions of loan. By whatever means and form, style or character, Sycamore Consulting Limited is not authorized by law to loan money to anyone as it is not a financial institution nor is it a player in the Capital Market and non capital market”.
“The purported loan to Kogi State is viewed as the company being a conduit pipe to Gov. Yahaya Adoza Bello. The total assets of the ‘borrowing company’ is not up to N1 billion, yet it borrowed the State Government N3.9 billion in just one day”.
“On 25th July 2017, the sum of N287, 975,645.87 (Two Hundred and Eight-Seven Million, Nine Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Five Naira, Eighty-Seven Kobo) was paid back to Sycamore Consulting Limited by the Kogi State Government from its IGR DSRA account”.
One month after, on 24th August, 2017, the sum of N287, 975,645.87 (Two Hundred and Eight-Seven Million, Nine Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Five Naira, Eighty-Seven Kobo) was paid again into Sycamore Consulting Limited by the Kogi State Government from its IGR DSRA account”
“On 25th September, 2017, the sum of N258, 000,000 (Two Hundred and Fifty-Eight Million Naira) was paid into Sycamore consulting Limited by the Kogi State Government from its IGR DSRA account.
Finally on 23rd November, 2017, the sum of N200, 000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira) was paid into Sycamore Consulting Limited by the Kogi State Government from its IGR DSRA account”.