Audit examination of records maintained in the Authority showed that:
i. Twenty-one (21) different Zonal Constituency training contracts amounting to 50,714,966.49 (Fifty million, seven hundred and fourteen thousand, nine hundred and sixty-six Naira, forty-nine kobo) only, were awarded to six (6) contractors.
ii. The twenty-one (21) different training programmes awarded to six (6) contractors purported to have been done at different locations were awarded on the same date; payments amounting to 50,714,966.49 (Fifty million, seven hundred and fourteen thousand, nine hundred and sixty-six naira, forty-nine kobo) were made between 22nd and 31st May, 2019; the same photographs with the same participants used as supporting documents for all the projects in 2018 were also used in 2019, despite the fact that they were done at different locations and different years.
iii. The provision of Public Procurement Act, 2007 which requires receipt of quotations from at least 3 (three) contractors was not adhered to and the bases for selection of the contractors were not stated; the resource persons for the trainings and their profiles were not known; the lists of participants, their telephone numbers and endorsements were not attached as evidence of attendance, and
iv. The contract was split to circumvent approval threshold thereby contravening the provisions of extant regulations.