They include how he allegedly pocketed N2.194 billion as security vote between June and September 2020 diverted N2.1bn monthly through 1,161 ghost workers.
The petitioners alleged that of the over N7 billion monthly wage bill of the state, about N2.1 billion is diverted using phony list of fake or ghost workers numbering over 1,161.
“They were in such hurry in the process of making the list so much so that they became very clumsy in preparing the list to justify the fraud. We invite you to take a look at the ghost workers Date of Birth (DOB), Date of Assumption (DofA), Date of Retirement and BVN which is the same for every ghost worker, meaning their total salary goes into the same account. Some of the ghost workers were born in 1899 according to information on ANNEX 4, employed the same day and will all retire same date in December 2023. What a shame!”, the petition read in part.
“How N600 million cash was stolen in Accountant General’s office”
“As part of managing the loot from ghost workers, the state Accountant General (AG) pays N 45m monthly to the Governor from an FCMB account. Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmed, DFA Treasury (Special Duties) is a well known front of the state AG. It is an open secret that in early August, the sum of N600m cash was stolen from his office. Workers at the Treasury Department are aware of this. We are sure some of them will testify in the affirmative if they are summoned in consequence of investigations.”
AWARD OF N3.6 BILLION CONTRACT, LATER REVIEWED TO N4.6 BILLION TO ADDA NIGERIA LTD IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 5 AND 6 OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND SECTION 25 OF THE BAUCHI STATE PROCUREMENT ACT:
This is the most brazen and audacious act of impunity, nepotism and violation of public trust ever perpetrated in the history of Bauchi State. Attached hereto are ANNEX 12 to 24 Which we wholeheartedly adopt and wish to summarise as follows:
1) The controversial contract involves the supply of 105 assorted vehicles.
2) In order to fund the contract, the Governor illegally obtained a loan of N3.5 billion from UBA Plc.
3) The Governor compelled UBA Plc to transfer the total loan amount of N3.5b directly to ADDA Nigeria Ltd., a company in which he had 20% stakes in, and the balance of 80% stakes held on his behalf by Abdullahi, Salihu Bawa, his childhood friend and known front.
4) The loan of N3.5b went into the Governor’s private company account without having to pass through the state treasury; as a result the Governor expended the total amount of N3.6 billion without remitting statutory taxes to the state.
5) The initial costing of the supply of 105 assorted cars was generously put at N2.6 billion. The Governor in connivance with some unscrupulous state officials inflated it by N900m.
6) The N900m illegal addition to the contract sum was not enough to satisfy the governor’s greed so he single handedly directed state officials to further inflate the contract by N1 billion taking the total cost of supply of the 105 assorted cars to N4.6 billion not N3.6 billion mentioned in several reports and publications.
7) It was the act of impunity in paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 above that led to the resignation of the then state commissioner of finance, Nura Manu Soro who was barely two months in office because the young man felt he could not defend this brand of financial recklessness.
8) We can confirm that the Governor’s son, Abdullahi Bala Mohammed received various funds transfers directly from the N4.6 billion windfall from Adda Nigeria Ltd, a company owned and managed solely on the directives of his father who is the Governor.
9) Specifically, bulk of the first tranche of the loan of N3.5 billion paid directly into the account of Adda Nigeria Ltd were transferred to BDCs and converted to dollars for bribe seeking officials in different places. No wonder the Governor had to jerk up the contract amount by N1 billion. Since he had used a bulk of the N3.5billion as bribes to save himself and his family members from embarrassment.
10) The Governor’s sons who have confided in some of their friends said that they used part of the funds transferred to them to settle lawyers on both sides prosecuting Authorities and judicial officers. No wonder the corruption trial involving the Governor and his sons has been spectacularly stalled, which is a blight on Mr. President’s war on corruption. The Governor has immunity but the son has no such immunity.
11) No due process was followed in the award and implementation process of the N4.6billion contract awarded to the Governor’s company, Adda Nigeria Ltd. This is a violation of the laws of the state. Consequently, state officials including other sham Directors of Adda Nigeria Ltd must account for this rape of Bauchi State treasury.
12) Paper work for the award of the contract was hastened months after the award of the contract to Adda Nigeria Ltd. Investigations will reveal the rigged process involved in the award of the contract. It is obvious the Governor was in a hurry to generate money for obvious reasons, then.
13) To make matters worse, there was no line in Bauchi State, 2019 budget that provided for the sum of N4.6 billion for the supply of assorted vehicles. The only line in the state’s 2019 Budget was provision of the sum of N1 billion for motor vehicles purchase in the state’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Budget. Spending without legislation, constitutes a breach of the constitution and a breach of the Governor’s Oath of Office, to govern according to laws not by his whims and caprices.
14) The Governor’s spokesperson, Muktar Gidado (SSA Media) who is also a brother to the Governor’s wife had first confirmed that the contract was actually awarded to Adda Nig. Ltd. but denied that his brother-in-law, the Governor is part owner of Adda Nig. Ltd.
15) The question still remains, who is this Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed with identical credentials with the Governor and even using the Governor’s family residence in Bauchi (No. 227 Gombe Road, Bauchi, Bauchi State) as his registered address?
16) Another question that must be answered is, who is Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed other than the Governor, who runs a briefcase company with no known office or website that was adjudged by the ruling clan of thieves in Bauchi to be qualified to handle a contract involving a whopping sum of N4.6 billion? Alh. Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) must be compelled to tell us who this his business associate, known as Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is? Only your Agency can get these answers for the people of Bauchi and lovers of the truth.
17) To try and distance the Governor from the fraud perpetrated through Adda Nig. Ltd., the Governor in connivance with Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) escalated their crimes from the state level to the federal level. The duo succeeded in procuring the assistance of the Registrar General of CAC, Garba Abubakar in removing Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed’s name as director of Adda Nig. Ltd. through fraudulent means. ANNEX 19, 20 and 24 to this petition are patently clear and manifestly unassailable.
18) If Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is not the Governor then why did they secure the services of the CAC to clumsily and illegally make backdated filings removing Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed as a director of the company? What are they trying to cover by these illegal backdated changes? Why is it so important to have warranted the commission of crime in order to just change a director of a company?
19) Muh’d Bala Abdullahi the lawyer who made the backdated fillings on being reminded by the correspondent of Premium Times that the filed documents carried a retrospective date, said “I am not disputing that”. Muh’d Bala Abdullahi also confirmed that he filled the changes this year, meaning 2020 while the documents bore 2019 dates. This is to say the least, criminal.
20) It is no longer any secret that the RG, CAC Garba Abubakar has removed Adda Nigeria Limited’s file from the CAC shelf where it should ordinarily be. Why should the RG do that and why is he trying to cover for the crimes of others while serving in a Government that prides itself on war against corruption? In law the combination of all the activities of the RG, CAC, Adda Nigeria Limited, their lawyer; Muh’d Bala Abdullahi, Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) is known as “consciousness of guilt”. They want to cover their crimes at all cost.
PRAYER:
We want your organization to do a thorough investigation of these crimes. Specifically, we want to know:
a) Who is Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Adda Nigeria Ltd whose registered address is No. 227 Gombe Road, Bauchi, Bauchi State? Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) should know this Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed since he is his Business Associate.
b) If Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is the Governor as we all know, was it not a breach of code of conduct for public officers, breach of Section 25 of Bauchi State Procurement Act and breach of public trust for the Governor to have awarded a contract of N4.6 billion to his company?
c) Where was the loan of N3.5 billion paid into other than the account of Adda Nig. Ltd? Who disbursed the funds and who are the beneficiaries of the disbursements and for what purposes? These questions can be answered by Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) since Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed his partner and Associate now enjoys immunity.
d) Were statutory taxes paid to Bauchi State Government by Adda Nigeria Ltd?
e) What is the contractual costing of the 105 assorted vehicles, compared to the cost Bauchi State Government and other procuring entities acquired them?
f) Why did Nura Manu Soro resigned his post as commissioner for finance barely two months in office.
g) Who are the owners of the other two companies viz: Shafa (Nig) Ltd and Web Meg Services (Nig) Ltd that bidded for the supply of the 105 assorted vehicles alongside Adda Nig. Ltd? See ANNEX 12.
h) What did the Governor’s sons: Abdullahi and Shamsudeen Bala Mohammed used the funds they got from the vehicle supply contract through Adda Nigeria Ltd for?
i) Why did Adda Nig. Ltd. and their lawyer, Muh’d Bala Abdullahi conspire to embark on backdated fillings at the CAC in order to remove Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed as a director of the company?
j) What does the RG, CAC know to the extent that he offered to conspire with promoters of Adda Nig. Ltd. and their Lawyer named in (i) above as an accessory before and after the fact of the crime of doctoring records at the CAC, where he is the head ?
k) Why did the RG, CAC removed Adda Nig. Ltd’s file from CAC shelf and did not return it even after Premium Times had reported it. Is he trying to cover for his crime of serving as accessory to doctoring CAC records or covering for the said Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, who is so important in the eyes of the RG but dismissed as a nonentity by another Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, the Governor of Bauchi State? What should we believe?
UNANUTHORISED MANDATORY PAYMENTS:
In the case of Kirfi LGA alone, from July 2019 to Dec 2019 it amounted to N 538,651,186=. The same is the story in the remaining 19 LGAs of the state. More sordid details will be laid bare if officials of the 20 LGAs are interrogated. See ANNEX 6 to this petition.
DIRECT WITHDRAWAL (STEALING) FROM THE BANK:
In the case of Bogoro LGA, the total sum of N24,174,500= was withdrawn from the bank from July 2019 to Dec 2019 alone and criminally shared. The Bogoro CTC then was one of the very favored CTCs because of his expertise in processing hush money. He was over used in ferrying stolen money to the commissioner for Local Government Affairs. A cursory look at financial dealings of Bogoro LGA and other LGAs of the state will easily unravel this brand of crude stealing. See ANNEX 7 to this petition.
OTHER UNAUTHORIZED PAYMENTS:
See ANNEX 8 and ANNEX 9. Kirfi LGA alone illegally paid out N 30,728,400.00 from May 2019 to Dec 2019. In some cases for funny reasons such as special prayers and PDP allowances. In the corresponding period, the illegal payments made by Bauchi LGA as reflected on ANNEX 9 an official document of the LGA, far dwarfed that of Kirfi LGA. For Bauchi LGA alone as can be clearly seen from ANNEX 9, a total unauthorized payments of N 912,157,542= was made within the period. These monies are simply ferried to officials of the Ministry of LG Affairs which are pooled together by the commissioner and shared by him at the directive of the Governor.
GHOST WORKERS
About 41% of the total Bauchi State workforce are Ghost workers. When the total monthly wage bill of the state was about N5.2b over N2.1b of that amount was going into private pockets. To the chagrin of informed indigenes such as us, the Governor recently claimed in a widely circulated interview that the state wage bill has moved to over N7b monthly, representing an increment of over N2b when there has not been fresh recruitments or promotions in the state.
In order to buttress our point and lend credence to our assertions herein, we have attached a list of 1,161 ghost workers as ANNEX 4 to this petition. This is just a tip of the iceberg. They were in such hurry in the process of making the list so much so that they became very clumsy in preparing the list to justify the fraud. We invite you to take a look at the ghost workers Date of Birth (DOB), Date of Assumption (DofA), Date of Retirement and BVN which is the same for every ghost worker, meaning their total salary goes into the same account. Some of the ghost workers were born in 1899 according to information on ANNEX 4, employed the same day and will all retire same date in December 2023. What a shame!
PRAYER:
Those who prepared the list of the Ghost Workers are known to the state officials listed in ANNEX 5 to this petition. All of them should be invited for interrogation. We are sure of the fact that at least one of the officials listed in the said Annex will shed further light and provide information as to how the proceeds from ghost workers is shared under the directive of the Governor.
As part of managing the loot from ghost workers, the state Accountant General (AG) pays N 45m monthly to the Governor from an FCMB account. Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmed, DFA Treasury (Special Duties) is a well known front of the state AG. It is an open secret that in early August, the sum of N600m cash was stolen from his office. Workers at the Treasury Department are aware of this. We are sure some of them will testify in the affirmative if they are summoned in consequence of investigations.
STEALING LGA FUNDS:
See ANNEX 6 – 11
1. UNANUTHORISED MANDATORY PAYMENTS:
In the case of Kirfi LGA alone, from July 2019 to Dec 2019 it amounted to N 538,651,186=. The same is the story in the remaining 19 LGAs of the state. More sordid details will be laid bare if officials of the 20 LGAs are interrogated. See ANNEX 6 to this petition.
2. DIRECT WITHDRAWAL (STEALING) FROM THE BANK:
In the case of Bogoro LGA, the total sum of N24,174,500= was withdrawn from the bank from July 2019 to Dec 2019 alone and criminally shared. The Bogoro CTC then was one of the very favored CTCs because of his expertise in processing hush money. He was over used in ferrying stolen money to the commissioner for Local Government Affairs. A cursory look at financial dealings of Bogoro LGA and other LGAs of the state will easily unravel this brand of crude stealing. See ANNEX 7 to this petition.
3. OTHER UNAUTHORIZED PAYMENTS:
See ANNEX 8 and ANNEX 9. Kirfi LGA alone illegally paid out N 30,728,400.00 from May 2019 to Dec 2019. In some cases for funny reasons such as special prayers and PDP allowances. In the corresponding period, the illegal payments made by Bauchi LGA as reflected on ANNEX 9 an official document of the LGA, far dwarfed that of Kirfi LGA. For Bauchi LGA alone as can be clearly seen from ANNEX 9, a total unauthorized payments of N 912,157,542= was made within the period. These monies are simply ferried to officials of the Ministry of LG Affairs which are pooled together by the commissioner and shared by him at the directive of the Governor.
4. STEALING IN THE GUISE OF WORKSHOPS, BY MINISTRY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS:
By ANNEX 10, Alkaleri LGA just like the other 19 LGAs was compelled to release the sum of N 600,000= for Workshop for new Executive and Administration of LGA in Bauchi State. The workshop never took place after all the LGAs in the state had paid N600,000.00 each.
In the same breath, by ANNEX 11, Alkaleri LGA just like all the other 19 LGAs in the state was tasked to release the sum of (N262,500.00) for workshop on the “ROLE OF WOMEN BEHIND LEADERSHIP: WIVES SUPPORT OF HUSBAND CAREER”, whatever that means. These are just examples of phantom workshops the Governor approves in order to steal funds. One can only imagine how many more such nonsensical workshops the Governor have approved since September 2019. The truth is that such workshops never took place. In the case of the two mentioned above, all the 20 LGAs were compelled to pay their contributions for the two workshops into the account of one, Alh. Adamu Saidu a lecturer with Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi. If he is invited for interrogation, he will reveal who directed him to share the money and the beneficiaries.
MIS-APPLICATION OF LGA FUNDS ON UBUDGETED PROJECTS BY THE COMMISIONER FOR LG AFFAIRS, HON. NUHU ZAKI.
The said Hon Nuhu Zaki had released a promotional video on Projects he is executing on behalf of the Governor. These are phoney projects not backed by appropriations. All allocations to the 20 LGAs in Bauchi less salaries go into funding these phantom projects that only Hon. Nuhu Zaki and his officials know something about. They claim to be spending all the illegal returns from the 20 LGAs on the following projects, which are not even fairly spread among the LGAs. While the funds are stolen from all the 20 LGAs not all the 20 LGAs are beneficiaries of the unbudgeted projects.
The projects are as follows:
1. Bakin Kura Ultra-Modern Mosque.
2. Seventy-six (76) classrooms at Gwallaga.
3. Palace of Galadiman Katagum at Zaki LGA.
4. Palace of Warji
5. Palace of District Head of Nabardo
6. Rural Electrification at Maraban Liman Katagum.
7. CAN Secretariat (Newly Constructed).
8. Rural Electrification at Kanawar Mai Alewa.
9. A Center at Yuli opposite – Ganjuwa LGA
10. Construction of Zango Bridge.
11. Construction of roads and bridges at Gwallagan Mayaka
12. Construction of road at Magaji Quarters – Unguwar Sarki
13. Road works at Unguwan Sarakuna
14. Bridge construction at Kirfi-Wanka.
15. ECWA Church (No location mentioned)
16. Construction of 3 Bridges at Burra to Ningi
17. Feeder Road, Ningi – Balma
18. Feeder Road, Ningi – Burga
19. Construction of bridge at Dawaki – Dungu Warji
20. Guest Houses in Bauchi
21. Purchase of school learning materials.
PRAYER:
In order to arrive at the truth and unearth more shocking scams, the Commissioner for LG Affairs, his Permanent Secretary, Director of Finance, Director Procurement and the Cashier should be invited for interrogation alongside most of the former CTCs, some of whom have agreed to volunteer more information should they be invited to testify. Hon Nuhu Zaki must be compelled to tell Bauchi people where he get the money he spends on those projects from. Investigations by your Agency will reveal how Hon. Nuhu Zaki and his boss, Gov. Bala Mohammed unconstitutionally bleed the 20 LGAs, financially.
AWARD OF N3.6 BILLION CONTRACT, LATER REVIEWED TO N4.6 BILLION TO ADDA NIGERIA LTD IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 5 AND 6 OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND SECTION 25 OF THE BAUCHI STATE PROCUREMENT ACT:
This is the most brazen and audacious act of impunity, nepotism and violation of public trust ever perpetrated in the history of Bauchi State. Attached hereto are ANNEX 12 to 24 Which we wholeheartedly adopt and wish to summarise as follows:
1) The controversial contract involves the supply of 105 assorted vehicles.
2) In order to fund the contract, the Governor illegally obtained a loan of N3.5 billion from UBA Plc.
3) The Governor compelled UBA Plc to transfer the total loan amount of N3.5b directly to ADDA Nigeria Ltd., a company in which he had 20% stakes in, and the balance of 80% stakes held on his behalf by Abdullahi, Salihu Bawa, his childhood friend and known front.
4) The loan of N3.5b went into the Governor’s private company account without having to pass through the state treasury; as a result the Governor expended the total amount of N3.6 billion without remitting statutory taxes to the state.
5) The initial costing of the supply of 105 assorted cars was generously put at N2.6 billion. The Governor in connivance with some unscrupulous state officials inflated it by N900m.
6) The N900m illegal addition to the contract sum was not enough to satisfy the governor’s greed so he single handedly directed state officials to further inflate the contract by N1 billion taking the total cost of supply of the 105 assorted cars to N4.6 billion not N3.6 billion mentioned in several reports and publications.
7) It was the act of impunity in paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 above that led to the resignation of the then state commissioner of finance, Nura Manu Soro who was barely two months in office because the young man felt he could not defend this brand of financial recklessness.
8) We can confirm that the Governor’s son, Abdullahi Bala Mohammed received various funds transfers directly from the N4.6 billion windfall from Adda Nigeria Ltd, a company owned and managed solely on the directives of his father who is the Governor.
9) Specifically, bulk of the first tranche of the loan of N3.5 billion paid directly into the account of Adda Nigeria Ltd were transferred to BDCs and converted to dollars for bribe seeking officials in different places. No wonder the Governor had to jerk up the contract amount by N1 billion. Since he had used a bulk of the N3.5billion as bribes to save himself and his family members from embarrassment.
10) The Governor’s sons who have confided in some of their friends said that they used part of the funds transferred to them to settle lawyers on both sides prosecuting Authorities and judicial officers. No wonder the corruption trial involving the Governor and his sons has been spectacularly stalled, which is a blight on Mr. President’s war on corruption. The Governor has immunity but the son has no such immunity.
11) No due process was followed in the award and implementation process of the N4.6billion contract awarded to the Governor’s company, Adda Nigeria Ltd. This is a violation of the laws of the state. Consequently, state officials including other sham Directors of Adda Nigeria Ltd must account for this rape of Bauchi State treasury.
12) Paper work for the award of the contract was hastened months after the award of the contract to Adda Nigeria Ltd. Investigations will reveal the rigged process involved in the award of the contract. It is obvious the Governor was in a hurry to generate money for obvious reasons, then.
13) To make matters worse, there was no line in Bauchi State, 2019 budget that provided for the sum of N4.6 billion for the supply of assorted vehicles. The only line in the state’s 2019 Budget was provision of the sum of N1 billion for motor vehicles purchase in the state’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Budget. Spending without legislation, constitutes a breach of the constitution and a breach of the Governor’s Oath of Office, to govern according to laws not by his whims and caprices.
14) The Governor’s spokesperson, Muktar Gidado (SSA Media) who is also a brother to the Governor’s wife had first confirmed that the contract was actually awarded to Adda Nig. Ltd. but denied that his brother-in-law, the Governor is part owner of Adda Nig. Ltd.
15) The question still remains, who is this Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed with identical credentials with the Governor and even using the Governor’s family residence in Bauchi (No. 227 Gombe Road, Bauchi, Bauchi State) as his registered address?
16) Another question that must be answered is, who is Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed other than the Governor, who runs a briefcase company with no known office or website that was adjudged by the ruling clan of thieves in Bauchi to be qualified to handle a contract involving a whopping sum of N4.6 billion? Alh. Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) must be compelled to tell us who this his business associate, known as Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is? Only your Agency can get these answers for the people of Bauchi and lovers of the truth.
17) To try and distance the Governor from the fraud perpetrated through Adda Nig. Ltd., the Governor in connivance with Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) escalated their crimes from the state level to the federal level. The duo succeeded in procuring the assistance of the Registrar General of CAC, Garba Abubakar in removing Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed’s name as director of Adda Nig. Ltd. through fraudulent means. ANNEX 19, 20 and 24 to this petition are patently clear and manifestly unassailable.
18) If Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is not the Governor then why did they secure the services of the CAC to clumsily and illegally make backdated filings removing Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed as a director of the company? What are they trying to cover by these illegal backdated changes? Why is it so important to have warranted the commission of crime in order to just change a director of a company?
19) Muh’d Bala Abdullahi the lawyer who made the backdated fillings on being reminded by the correspondent of Premium Times that the filed documents carried a retrospective date, said “I am not disputing that”. Muh’d Bala Abdullahi also confirmed that he filled the changes this year, meaning 2020 while the documents bore 2019 dates. This is to say the least, criminal.
20) It is no longer any secret that the RG, CAC Garba Abubakar has removed Adda Nigeria Limited’s file from the CAC shelf where it should ordinarily be. Why should the RG do that and why is he trying to cover for the crimes of others while serving in a Government that prides itself on war against corruption? In law the combination of all the activities of the RG, CAC, Adda Nigeria Limited, their lawyer; Muh’d Bala Abdullahi, Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) is known as “consciousness of guilt”. They want to cover their crimes at all cost.
PRAYER:
We want your organization to do a thorough investigation of these crimes. Specifically, we want to know:
a) Who is Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Adda Nigeria Ltd whose registered address is No. 227 Gombe Road, Bauchi, Bauchi State? Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) should know this Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed since he is his Business Associate.
b) If Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is the Governor as we all know, was it not a breach of code of conduct for public officers, breach of Section 25 of Bauchi State Procurement Act and breach of public trust for the Governor to have awarded a contract of N4.6 billion to his company?
c) Where was the loan of N3.5 billion paid into other than the account of Adda Nig. Ltd? Who disbursed the funds and who are the beneficiaries of the disbursements and for what purposes? These questions can be answered by Abdullahi Salihu Bawa (Yari) since Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed his partner and Associate now enjoys immunity.
d) Were statutory taxes paid to Bauchi State Government by Adda Nigeria Ltd?
e) What is the contractual costing of the 105 assorted vehicles, compared to the cost Bauchi State Government and other procuring entities acquired them?
f) Why did Nura Manu Soro resigned his post as commissioner for finance barely two months in office.
g) Who are the owners of the other two companies viz: Shafa (Nig) Ltd and Web Meg Services (Nig) Ltd that bidded for the supply of the 105 assorted vehicles alongside Adda Nig. Ltd? See ANNEX 12.
h) What did the Governor’s sons: Abdullahi and Shamsudeen Bala Mohammed used the funds they got from the vehicle supply contract through Adda Nigeria Ltd for?
i) Why did Adda Nig. Ltd. and their lawyer, Muh’d Bala Abdullahi conspire to embark on backdated fillings at the CAC in order to remove Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed as a director of the company?
j) What does the RG, CAC know to the extent that he offered to conspire with promoters of Adda Nig. Ltd. and their Lawyer named in (i) above as an accessory before and after the fact of the crime of doctoring records at the CAC, where he is the head ?
k) Why did the RG, CAC removed Adda Nig. Ltd’s file from CAC shelf and did not return it even after Premium Times had reported it. Is he trying to cover for his crime of serving as accessory to doctoring CAC records or covering for the said Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, who is so important in the eyes of the RG but dismissed as a nonentity by another Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, the Governor of Bauchi State? What should we believe?
OTHER PHONEY CONTRACTS:
ANNEX 25 and 26 to this petition contain list of projects awarded and paid for so far by the Governor. An analysis of the ANNEX will reveal the following fraudulent details.
1. Road Contracts covering a total of 96 kilometers at N17.5b which translates to about N182m per kilometer, awarded solely by the Governor before the composition of the State Executive Council. The Governor also illegally paid over 50% mobilization against the provision of the Procurement Act which Bauchi State has domesticated and against the advice of the State Pricing Intelligence Agency.
The Commissioner for Works illegally included the sum of N300m into the road construction contracts purportedly to serve as compensation to land owners for road construction. Part payment for the N300m was made in September 2019. The balance has been paid and shared by the commissioner under the Governor’s directives. The commissioner should be invited to provide the names of land owners paid and how much was paid to each of them. We hereby without equivocation state that a chunk of the payment to the road contractors was diverted to BDCs and converted into dollars which was used as bribes to judicial officers to facilitate favorable judgments at the Tribunals , and courts where the Governor and his son were being prosecuted for sundry acts of corruption. Your Agency cannot but unravel this. If the contractors are invited to provide details about the utilization of the over 50% illegally paid to each of them as mobilization, the findings will rattle us all.
The Governor has openly admitted to making payments against the provisions of the law but claim that serious work is ongoing at the sites. He has forgotten that he swore to uphold the law and not resort to self help like a dictator even if such illegal measures work well. The undeniable fact is that the Governor illegally used such illegal payments to the contractors not for any other consideration but to raise money to be used as bribes for his nagging legal issues, then.
2. Contract for the supply of diesel to General Hospitals in the 20 LGAs and the Specialist Hospital. This contract is being handled by the Governor’s adopted son, Muntaka Duguri for the Governor’s elder brother, Alh. Adamu Duguri. This contract that was awarded against due process is the reason about N50m monthly is being diverted from the state treasury into Alh. Adamu Duguri’s pocket.
3. A cleaning company that provides services to only five places; viz : Government House, Deputy Governor’s Office, Ministry of Finance, Ramat House and VIP 9, fleeces the state to the tune of N60m monthly. The payment is usually enforced by the SSG, who is the official agent for a so-called Governor’s friend who is in turn fronting for the governor. The wickedness involved in this is that the state’s official cleaning outfit, (BASEPA) that does more of the cleaning work gets only N19m monthly allocation. The SSG has the details and should be invited to shed light on this brazen rape of Bauchi treasury by the Governor through one of his many fronts.
4. More than 90% of the contracts in ANNEX 25 and 26 were either awarded directly to the Governor’s elder brother, Alh. Adamu Duguri, Governor’s sons, wives or their cronies except for the State PDP Chairman, Alh. Hamza Akuyam. Even Ramadan Press is a known front of the Governor as it stands now.
5. SUBEB/UBEC jobs are the exclusive preserve of the Governor’s family. No wonder SUBEB is even unable to provide details of the contractors in official documents as can be seen in ANNEX 25. The Governor’s elder brother, Alh. Adamu Duguri; his sons especially Muntaka, Shamsudeen and Abdullahi are the known ring leaders. They should be asked to provide details about all the contractors involved in these massive frauds.
PRAYERS:
It should be noted that 90% of the contracts being awarded by the Governor are never properly advertised and bidded for nor are cost saving measures adopted since they are mostly awarded to his blood relations or fronts. It will surprise you to know that most of the companies used as fronts have no known offices and not registered with the CAC. Most of these contracts, though fully paid for, have not been executed. Even where they claim bids were called for, the exercise is a racket and a mockery of what Due Process is about. See list of payments contained in ANNEX 26 hereto attached.
Consequently, we wish to request that Bauchi State Due Process officials be invited to shed light into the sham they preside over and the Governor’s relations should be made to account for this rape of our resources in a scale never before witnessed in our dear State. We also invite you to run a check at CAC on the registration status of all the companies listed in ANNEX 25 and 26 to this Petition. The discovery will joilt every man and woman of good conscience, as most of the contracts that have been fully paid for remain unexecuted.
SCHOOL FEEDING SCAM:
Of the Governor’s financial crimes and malfeasance, stealing from our school children is by far the worst. Bearing in mind the last released out of school children statistics in which Bauchi State tops all the states of the federation, the least charitable person to the Governor would wish that children are motivated and even wooed to go to school but reverse is the case in Bauchi.
This is how the scam over school children’s feeding is perpetrated. Every single Friday that schools are open, a protein diet is approved at N70= per child every Friday for 600,000 children. That should cost N42m each Friday and since we have 4 Fridays in a month, N42m x 4 gives you a total of N168m in a month.
Instead of feeding the school kids with protein an Fridays, the Governor directed that the protein be substituted with Milk and Biscuits at N25 per child as against N70 per child. N25 x 600,000 children gives you N15m every Friday. If you multiply N15m x 4 since there are 4 Fridays each month you will get a total of N60m. To arrive at the savings per month, one has to do elementary mathematics: N168m – N60m = N108m.
From the above heartless savings of N108m a month from the school feeding, the Governor directed that the sum of N200,000= be paid to each of his LGA Coordinator amounting to N200,000 x 20 since there are 20 LGAs, i.e. N4m total monthly pay out. That leaves a balance of N104m monthly for the Governor. Perpetrators of this wickedness are paid from other compromises of the school feeding programme on other days other than Fridays. Stealing from our children this way imperils our future in a most irresponsible way.
PRAYERS:
If nothing is done about other subjects this petition has covered, stealing from school feeding programme must be stopped. Some conscientious food vendors, teachers and school children are ever ready and willing to cooperate in the investigation if included. We must do all within our powers to protect our children and guarantee our future.
STEALING IN THE NAME OF SECURITY VOTE:
Gov. Bala Mohammed has quadrupled his security vote against the tradition of his predecessors since 1999 where none has ever spent above N150m. The Governor recklessly spent N2.194b between June and September, 2019 despite the non existence of a security emergency situation in the state to warrant that level of unparallel expenditure. In July 2019 alone, the Governor took N995m as security vote, which he used in settling election debts and lavished the balance in furnishing his new Lebanese wife’s Mansion in Asokoro, Abuja. The SSG, DFA in Governor’s Office and the then COS are aware of these illegal expenses and should be made to account for it.
We wish to also add that Bauchi State Government Central Treasury has not been reconciled or audited in the last 5 years. The Accountant General (AG) has been notorious for awarding and paying for illegal and none existent contracts over which he has no authority. He enables himself to commit daring frauds just like he does for the Governor. He is untouchable because the Governor cannot dare him for fear that he might spill the beans if he is pushed to the wall.
PRAYER:
The SSG, COS, Director Finance Government House and the AG should be invited to provide details of the expenditure that was not security related. They are aware and actively participated in ferrying the money to be used for other purposes other than for security.
RENTING OUT THE PERSONAL RESIDENCES OF THE GOVERNOR AND DEPUTY GOVERNOR TO BAUCHI STATE GOVERNMENT
It is no secret around government circles in Bauchi State that the Governor has rented out his personal residence to the State Government and his operating from that residence is costing the State Government a whopping N900m annually while that of the Deputy Governor who also refused operating from the Deputy Governor’s official residence is costing the state a staggering N750m annually.
In addition to the above fixed costs, both the Governor and the Deputy Governor are making varying improvements to their personal properties at tax payers’ expenses. This kind of fraud is novel to Bauchi State. No Governor has ever rented his personal property to the State Government to be used as official residence(s). This callousness also flies in the face of the fact that nothing is wrong with the Gov/Deputy Gov’s official residences.
PRAYER:
We want your Agency to question those who acted as fronts in consummating these frauds on our state, while the Governor and the Deputy wait for their turn after the immunity they now enjoy expires. Bauchi State Officials are at hand to confirm and provide additional information if they are ever invited and asked to come forth. On the part of the Governor and his Deputy, this is an abuse of public trust and a breach of their oath of office.
CLOSING REMARKS
We expect that our petition will receive your quick attention in line with President Buhari’s commitment to fight corruption to a standstill. We expect justice, Bauchi people expect justice and Nigerians expect justice.
We believe your Agency will do a thorough job, the type that will make President Buhari and all Nigerians who may read this petition happy.