National Assembly vehicles: Contractors petition Buhari, demand N875m, threaten suit

A group of contractors have petitioned the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), urging him to prevail on the National Assembly to pay them for the officials cars bought for lawmakers since 2017.

The contractors, 12 of them, are demanding payment of N875m within seven days with 21 per cent interest, failing which they would sue the leadership of the National Assembly.

The vehicles, which were bought by members of the 8th National Assembly, especially the House of Representatives, included Peugeot 508, 2017 model and Toyota Hilux pick-up vans, among others.

The 8th Assembly was led by Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate and Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker of the House.

The 9th Assembly is being led by Ahmed Lawan as President of the Senate and Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the House.

While the 8th House procured Peugeot 508 2017 model, the 9th House had ordered 400 units of Toyota Camry 2020 model. The Senate constantly acquires Toyota Sports Utility Vehicles.

The petition, filed by Roland Otaru, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on behalf of the contractor, was dated July 17, 2020, with Reference Number OO/LIT/LAG/076/07/20, addressed to the President and copied to the Senate President, the Speaker of the House and the National Assembly Service Commission.

It was titled, ‘Re: Refusal of the National Assembly to Pay Our Clients Money Due and Payable to Them in Respect of Contracts Executed for the National Assembly Since 2017.’

The petition read in part, “It is as a result of your zero tolerance for corruption that we, on behalf of our clients, convey to you sir, the refusal of the National Assembly to pay our clients the various contract sums owed our clients despite the supply of various cars and office equipment to the National Assembly by our clients since 2017.

“On the instructions of our clients, we wrote letters of demand to the Clerk of the National Assembly and up till now, there is no any iota of response to our letters of demand.

“Sir, as our President who has zero tolerance for corruption, we have it on good authority that funds have been provided for the National Assembly by your government to pay all outstanding debts owed by the National Assembly, but the principal officers of the National Assembly chose to look the other way and have failed, refused and/or neglected to pay the debts owed our clients despite both oral and written demands.”

When contacted, Director of Public Affairs, at the National Assembly, Yahaya Danzaria, referred our correspondent to the Department of Finance and Accounts.

Also the Director of Information, National Assembly, Rawlings Agada, said, “Anything that has to do with services and concerning purchase by members of the Assembly, go to the Senate or House Committees on Services.”

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A top official in the National Assembly management, however, told our correspondent that the parliament has three account heads – Senate account, House account and Management account. The official also stated that the Senate and House Services committees should speak on the matter.

When also contacted, the Chairman of the House Committee on House Service, Mr Wale Raji, said he was not the chairman of the committee, which made procurements in the 8th Assembly.

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So our guys expect Buhari to lose sleep because someone threatens to sue the National Assembly.

Ok, go on.

Buhari will even assigned a disciplined judge

The petition sef funny

I hope buhari can hear them sha

Buari will be glad if NAS is sued . Why procuring vehicles every 4yrs ? What then happens to the existing ones after every tenure .

why not petition the national assembly instead? Na Buhari give you contract?

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The end of days

It's funny that our so called leaders budget for what they can personally afford repeatedly even with inflated prices.
They are still dealing with the 8th assembly only God knows what will happen with the 9th assembly ordering 400 Toyota CAMRY 2020 Model.

chaiii...everything just tired me. no good news

These gluttonous crooks are now the new set of corrupt minds Nigerians should face. Forcing every chief executive to steal before getting budget approval, blackmailing with oversight function etc.

petition something...



870 million.

Buhari will be shocked... watch it

Nonsense petition

Yepa

In the write up, the money has been disbursed to the 8th national assembly, why did the leadership of the 8th national assembly refuse to pay the contractors? I guess the money was siphoned.

Nigeria my country I hail ooo

Hmmm

875m is enough to build a manufacturing industry and employ 10 thousand Nigerians.

God will empower us with wealth to do better.

I hope Buhari uses horsewhip to chase them out of there. They should go meet the leaders of the NASS to settle their beef. They're all collaborators in stealing.

Useless leaders and useless contractors.

875m from Buhari . Who is that motivational speaker that told them they will win the case

I just remember the Song by Idris

Nigeria Jaga Jaga

Motor wey Buhari no drive ,now you wan make hin chook mouth,imagine like 1/3 of the 8th assembly honourable who collectes the 2017 cars are also collecting the new ones.
What moral justification do they not have to castigate people minister,DG who launder cash.

Can one Bokoharam member just help us blow these people up,some people need to die away.

Why did they wait until that 8th Assembly has left before saying itt? Why not say this in 2018 or 2019? I dont gerrit.


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Normally we know that the money is not going to be fully Exectuted on the project

Hmmm...see money

All these cars their children can personally afford,they will still goan collect it on credit at the country’s expense...even Dino melaye too collected inside o.

Yeye country......

godkiller:
875m is enough to build a manufacturing industry and employ 10 thousand Nigerians.

God will empower us with wealth to do better.

Don't be ridiculous, bro. is it pure water manufacturing plant? Definitely not 10,000. It is usually not government's jobs to build industries. If they had provided the enabling environment like good roads, electricity, water, a technically educated populace and good policies, private organizations would be setting up those.

Just look at how much of our tax and public fund was given to few persons at a glance yet a third degree graduate will not even earn half the percent of that sum all his lifetime.

Saraki.

godkiller:
875m is enough to build a manufacturing industry and employ 10 thousand Nigerians.

God will empower us with wealth to do better.

875m can NOT build a manufacturing industry to employ 10thousand Nigerians.
Heavy manufacturing industries are expensive to set up and cost billions o Naira or Dollars to set up. I don't even wanna get started on the running cost and should anything go down, let's not forget there are allied industries to be set up before a heavy industrial complex can function effectively and efficiently. These cost very huge amounts of money.