A civil society group, Accountable Leadership for Better Nigeria Initiative, has asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to reverse the approval of the concession agreement on Nigeria Customs Service Modernisation Project.
Adebayo noted that Dipo Okpeseyi and Ahmed Raji, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria, had in separate letters, warned the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation of “underhand efforts being made to obtain FEC’s approval and or ratification of the re-award of the E-Customs Modernisation Project”.
ALBNI further stated that it was curious that Minister of State, Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr Clem Agba, feigned ignorance of a pending court order on the matter while urging anti-graft agencies such as the ICPC and the EFCC to “investigate allegations that one Ahmadu Saleh, said to be a close ally of the Comptroller General of the NCS, Col. Hameed Ali , is the biological brother of Zainab Jummai Umar-Ajijola, both directors of Bergman Security Consultants, the new concessionaire.
The group said the hurried FEC approval on the e-Customs project was a deliberate contempt for an order of the court, in a desperate bid to empower cronies of retiring President Buhari before the end of his administration, while alleging that the project had been designed as a “retirement package” for the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs, Col.
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