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Senate queries NECO over award of N6.5bn contracts without due process

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May 24, 2021
Senate queries NECO over award of N6.5bn contracts without due process
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THE Senate has queried the nation’s secondary examination body, the National Examination Council, NECO, over the alleged award of contracts to the tune of N6.5 billion without due process.

According to the Senate, the contracts awarded by NECO are the printing of security and non-security documents.

This was raised by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, led by Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which relied on the 2017 report of the Office of Auditor General for the Federation submitted to it for consideration.

According to the Auditor General,   NECO is unable to present any record to show that approval was granted for the contract by the Ministerial tender board in the first contract that cost about N451 million. In the second contract that cost about N6.1 billion, quotations were not collected from three bidders as required by PPA 2007.

It also noted that taxes were not deducted from some of the contract payments, even as there was no technical and financial evaluation.

According to the report, evidence of placement of advertisement was not attached to either payment vouchers or contract files. The report noted further that the amount expended was above the threshold of the Council and that the contracts were split, with some awarded to the same contractor with LPO and work order issued on the same date.

The query read:  “Examination of records and documents revealed that the Commission’s Tenders Board approved the award of contract for the printing of security materials in the sum of  451 million to a company in March 2017 in contravention of provisions of federal government circular No.SGF/OP/I/S.3/XI/849 of January 16, 2016.

‘’The circular reiterated that the approved revised thresholds for service-wide application, for which the Parastatal Tender Board can only exercise authority on works whose value is less than ¦ 250 million, while any sum above this, is to be referred to the Ministerial Tenders Board for approval. “We sought the authority for the above approval, including the ministerial approval but none was provided. “The above unilateral award of contracts without following due process may lead to awarding contracts to unqualified contractors.   Recommendation The Registrar/CEO should be sanctioned in line with provisions of Financial Regulation 3117.”

In his response, NECO’s Registrar, Prof. Godswill Obioma, who spoke on the issue of N461 million, said:  “These are payments to Data Science Nigeria Limited for the supply of optical mark readers for objective question papers for various examinations conducted by the Council.”

The committee sustained the queries on the ground that the Council could not provide evidence of approval from the Ministerial Tenders Board before awarding contracts beyond its threshold.

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