Buhari Sacks PermSec For Awarding ‘Fake Contracts’ To 500 Companies
President Muhammadu Buhari [/caption]
President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered the sack of a Permanent Secretary in an undisclosed ministry for awarding ‘fake contracts’ to himself through 500 companies.
The Permanent Secretary, according to Vanguard, was appointed by President Buhari in 2015 to oversee affairs of one of the ministries in charge of intervention programmes in the Niger Delta region.
The President had ordered the sack of the yet-to-be named Permanent Secretary on getting the wind of his dishonest activities.
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“We have been monitoring the man and the various companies being used by him to siphon huge sums of money from the ministry, which handles intervention programmes in the Niger Delta region but he has been very smart and suspicious of our movement, thereby making it impossible for us to arrest him despite the ambush we laid for him and his cronies,” an operative in one the security agencies told Vanguard Thursday night.
“But Mr. President did not waste time in asking the Head of Service of the Federation to sack the man with immediate effect as soon as he got to know that the man had used over 500 companies to award fake contracts to himself and move huge sums of money from the ministry in question.
“In fact, the discovery of the large scale fraud in the ministry, which has suffered a lot of project failure and the subsequent sacking of the permanent secretary by Mr. President, followed painstaking investigation by the anti-corruption agencies, which will soon charge the man to court,” the source added.
