I.The Service awarded eighteen (18) contracts at a total contract sum of N38,120,000.00 to eight (8) Contractors for the supply of ten thousand (10,000) litres of diesel each.
II.The contracts were for the supply of the same product that ought to have been awarded as a single contract but was rather split into eighteen contracts at a price that was within the Comptroller General’s threshold, in other to circumvent tenders’ procedures;
III.Twelve of the contracts were awarded on the same day (27 March, 2017), while five were awarded the next day (28 March, 2017); iv. Seventeen of the contracts were awarded at a contract price of N2,420,000.00, falling within the threshold of less than N2,500,000.00
IV.Efforts to ascertain the following documents in order to ascertain the validity of the transactions proved abortive:
a. Store Receipt Vouchers for the receipt of the diesel.
b. Store Issue Vouchers for distributing the diesel.
c. Records of the officers who received the diesel.
d. Location of the generators that consumed the diesel.