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Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Babygiwa(f): 12:31pm On Sep 08, 2018
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The Nigeria Ports Authority has landed itself in crisis after it awarded huge contracts to a company known to have received bans from conducting any business in some parts of Europe.

Anti-corruption non governmental agency, Cardrell has revealed the extent of corruption that has gone down at the NPA.

Cardrell’s investigations, made available to ALEDEH revealed that the company was awarded a contract of $70million without bidding at all and that some senior figures in the NPA enjoy special benefits.

It was also revealed that foreign news outlets have reported the case of the Cypriot Dredging Company and had gone all out for the NPA in their reports, but quite alarmingly, the agency still went ahead to sanction a deal with the banned company.

According to an investigative assessment by Cardrell of NPA’s involvement in the high-ground corrupt practise, it said;

“Sometimes in February, 2018 we stumbled on a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport to the Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement, requesting the issuance of a Certificate of No Objection for the award of contract on remedial works at Escravos Channel-Replacement of Aids to Navigation and Minor Dredging at Delta Ports, Warri, to enable it award the said contract to Messrs Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited at the sum of Forty-Four Million, Eight Hundred and Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Six US Dollars ($44,861,596.81).

Upon investigation, we discovered there was indeed a previous bribe for contract scandal involving the NPA, and the said company. Surprisingly, the said scandal was conspicuously reported in major news in Nigeria, Overseas and various online news portals, ranging from;
Vanguard Newspaper of 24th August, 2017; Tribune Newspaper of 17th October, 2017; Punch Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Thisday of 30th July, 2017; Nation Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Premiumtimes on the 18th of June, 2017; newtelegraphonline on the 24th of August, 2017; businessandmaritimewestafrica.com on the 17th of October, 2017
Even, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – an International Online Magazine – reported it thus;
NPA awards dredging contract worth US$70,000,00 Seventy Million US Dollars each year to Dredging International Services, without competitive bidding, as required by the Nigeria Laws.

And till date this convicted company is believed to have won jobs worth at least (N717 ,000,000,000.00) Seven Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira (US$2,280,000,000.00) Two Billion, Twenty Eight Million US Dollars from NPA.

We immediately wrote a letter dated the 6th day of March, 2018 to the Director General of the BPP drawing his attention to the notorious fact that the company they were about awarding a contract to, Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited, was convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in Switzerland, and that awarding the contract to the said company would be contrary to clear provisions of S. 16 (cool (e) & (f) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.
Sometimes in April, 2018, we got a call from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Lagos office that our petition to the BPP has been referred to them for investigation. We immediately visited the EFCC office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where we made statements and submitted documents and were also grilled by a group of investigators, who then promised to get back to us, if the need arises. We have subsequently visited the office of the EFCC severally thereafter, and they have promised investigations into the matter was still ongoing.”

The investigations also involved a publication by This Day Newspaper where members of the public were invited to a public hearing by the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement over the case.

“By a Thisday Newspaper publication dated the 13th day of May, 2018, the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement in exercise of its investigative/quasi-judicial powers, as defined in S. 88 & 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) invited members of the public to a public hearing/investigation into the matter and called for memoranda/position papers from the general public in respect thereof.
We prepared and presented a position paper to the House Joint Committee on the 31st of May, 2018 where we reiterated our position and we urged the House to invoke her powers under Section 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to request NPA to reverse the award of the contract on the ground that the foreign company, the contract was awarded to, Dredging International Services Ltd, was a sister company of a convicted company (Dredging International Services Cyprus, both subsidiaries of DEME Group Belgium) having been convicted upon an investigation by the office of the Attorney General, Department of International Affairs, Switzerland on allegations that the company and some officials of the NPA were alleged to have been involved in a bribe for contract scandal of Twenty Million U.S. Dollars ($20,000,00) and subsequently convicted on the 2nd of May 2012 and fined One Million Swiss Francs, by the court for bribing Nigeria officials. We also prayed the Committee to blacklist the said convicted company from Bidding for or executing contracts in Nigeria in accordance with S. 16 (cool (e) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.”

The Dredging company received the contracts despite many sanctions against them and are still convicted in Europe for illegal transactions with Nigerian companies and other criminal offences.

https://aledeh.com/revealed-npa-awards-n717-billion-dredging-contract-to-banned-cypriot-company/

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Cryomancer: 12:49pm On Sep 08, 2018
angry

Nothing amazes me anymore in this Nigeria. If the government can

- shortlist dead people for appointment
- Lock up a journalist for 2yrs without trial
- still not disclose the amount spent in treating Buhari
- Give 5k to ghost poor people..

What then should amaze us in the NPA awarding contract to banned companies?

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Oceannaagent: 12:50pm On Sep 08, 2018
Another avenue for siphoning our collective wealth, we are really fighting corruption undecided

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Onlinetalk: 12:50pm On Sep 08, 2018
Summary

I read diz all d day z over
Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by SeriouslySense(m): 12:50pm On Sep 08, 2018
Take it back brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Aunties, Daddies and Mummies.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Nobody: 12:51pm On Sep 08, 2018
Buhari is pithing kwaraption!!

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by wese90(m): 12:52pm On Sep 08, 2018
Nigeria my country


Just half of that money is enough for my upkeeps
Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by OBAGADAFFI: 12:52pm On Sep 08, 2018
This is just the beginning
Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by richidinho(m): 12:53pm On Sep 08, 2018
Jesu cresti

In lie mohammed's voice *it is corruption fighting back

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Eliteklaus(m): 12:54pm On Sep 08, 2018
And supporters of the ruling APC will still find a way to extricate the president from this, as we all know this will be the last time we will hear of this scandal as it will be buried under carpet. APC party of Saints

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Nobody: 12:55pm On Sep 08, 2018
Nigeria is a failed country cheesy

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by bomasek(m): 12:55pm On Sep 08, 2018
I just weak as I read this story,so no Nigerian company fit dredge abi

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by HzRF(m): 12:56pm On Sep 08, 2018
Under the odor-ruling vegatable living statue?


No oo it's the work of the Igbos and pained wailers

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by ivandragon: 12:56pm On Sep 08, 2018
in 2012, the company was fined for illegal dealings in Nigeria & blacklisted...

in 2017, the company gets jobs worth N700b...

I can already see the argument being put forth by pmb's miscreants...

"as long as they do the job, no problem"...
professional goal post shifters...

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by clarocuzioo(m): 12:57pm On Sep 08, 2018
This administration is really really "fighting corruption".
Its really a hot day to be a zombie, the earlier thread was ABBA KYARI, now we have NPA. This "saints" administration is indeed a gathering of corrupt elements, fraudsters and vultures devouring our common patrimony.
Fighting corruption indeed.

Cc:
AKA ABOKI MAI SUYA
YARIMO
NGENEUKWUENU
360DEGREES
GAVELSLAM
BUHARIGUY
MADRIDGUY
SARRKI
BUHARITILL2023
BUTTERFLYLEO

ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ZOMBIES

PLEASE COME AND DEFEND THIS "INTERGRITY".

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Dbigname: 12:59pm On Sep 08, 2018
Nigeria stinks of corruption chai. When God pushed devil from heaven, na 9ja here he land. The truth is that all of us are guilty of the current situation we find ourselves. It's time we collectively take our destinies into our own hands. Imagine Hausa person be director of NPA. Buhari stinks of corruption and has no integrity.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by mrroy91(m): 1:00pm On Sep 08, 2018
shocked
Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Hopebringer: 1:09pm On Sep 08, 2018
This is the same buahris government some people keep shouting has zero tolerance for corruption?

I just look at them like this whenever I see sai baba anywhere

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by jojothaiv(m): 1:10pm On Sep 08, 2018
Cryomancer:
angry

Nothing amazes me anymore in this Nigeria. If the government can

- shortlist dead people for appointment
- Lock up a journalist for 2yrs without trial
- still not disclose the amount spent in treating Buhari
- Give 5k to ghost poor people..

What then should amaze us in the NPA awarding contract to banned companies?
Nothing!

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by naijapips04: 1:12pm On Sep 08, 2018
Yesterday Tinubu, today NPA. Almost 1 trillion Naira. Chai!

The worst cases of corruption are going down under this administration.
It baffles me how sane Nigerians still support these guys.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Josh44s(m): 1:12pm On Sep 08, 2018
I am not surprised, even the air we breathe in this country is filled with corrupt elements.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Nobody: 1:13pm On Sep 08, 2018
funny thing is, Mr INTEGRITY is still in power when all these corruption under him are unravelled:





Babachir
Maina
NNPC
Lawal Daura
Buratai
Abba Kyari
NPA
Tinubu (Alpha Beta)





what amazes me is the paltry sums of money most of them are been accused of stealing.




I'm not also surprised that most persons/agencies accused of corruption are northerners/headed by northerners.



i can't imagine the graven level of corruption that will be exposed when Mr INTEGRITY is sent to daura.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Sharpshooota: 1:15pm On Sep 08, 2018
corruption everywhere...


Buhari legacies

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Bolo12: 1:21pm On Sep 08, 2018
Babygiwa:
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Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company
Rilwan Adetayo Balogun 1 day ago
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The Nigeria Ports Authority has landed itself in crisis after it awarded huge contracts to a company known to have received bans from conducting any business in some parts of Europe.

Anti-corruption non governmental agency, Cardrell has revealed the extent of corruption that has gone down at the NPA.

Cardrell’s investigations, made available to ALEDEH revealed that the company was awarded a contract of $70million without bidding at all and that some senior figures in the NPA enjoy special benefits.

It was also revealed that foreign news outlets have reported the case of the Cypriot Dredging Company and had gone all out for the NPA in their reports, but quite alarmingly, the agency still went ahead to sanction a deal with the banned company.

According to an investigative assessment by Cardrell of NPA’s involvement in the high-ground corrupt practise, it said;

“Sometimes in February, 2018 we stumbled on a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport to the Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement, requesting the issuance of a Certificate of No Objection for the award of contract on remedial works at Escravos Channel-Replacement of Aids to Navigation and Minor Dredging at Delta Ports, Warri, to enable it award the said contract to Messrs Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited at the sum of Forty-Four Million, Eight Hundred and Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Six US Dollars ($44,861,596.81).

Upon investigation, we discovered there was indeed a previous bribe for contract scandal involving the NPA, and the said company. Surprisingly, the said scandal was conspicuously reported in major news in Nigeria, Overseas and various online news portals, ranging from;
Vanguard Newspaper of 24th August, 2017; Tribune Newspaper of 17th October, 2017; Punch Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Thisday of 30th July, 2017; Nation Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Premiumtimes on the 18th of June, 2017; newtelegraphonline on the 24th of August, 2017; businessandmaritimewestafrica.com on the 17th of October, 2017
Even, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – an International Online Magazine – reported it thus;
NPA awards dredging contract worth US$70,000,00 Seventy Million US Dollars each year to Dredging International Services, without competitive bidding, as required by the Nigeria Laws.

And till date this convicted company is believed to have won jobs worth at least (N717 ,000,000,000.00) Seven Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira (US$2,280,000,000.00) Two Billion, Twenty Eight Million US Dollars from NPA.

We immediately wrote a letter dated the 6th day of March, 2018 to the Director General of the BPP drawing his attention to the notorious fact that the company they were about awarding a contract to, Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited, was convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in Switzerland, and that awarding the contract to the said company would be contrary to clear provisions of S. 16 (cool (e) & (f) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.
Sometimes in April, 2018, we got a call from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Lagos office that our petition to the BPP has been referred to them for investigation. We immediately visited the EFCC office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where we made statements and submitted documents and were also grilled by a group of investigators, who then promised to get back to us, if the need arises. We have subsequently visited the office of the EFCC severally thereafter, and they have promised investigations into the matter was still ongoing.”

The investigations also involved a publication by This Day Newspaper where members of the public were invited to a public hearing by the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement over the case.

“By a Thisday Newspaper publication dated the 13th day of May, 2018, the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement in exercise of its investigative/quasi-judicial powers, as defined in S. 88 & 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) invited members of the public to a public hearing/investigation into the matter and called for memoranda/position papers from the general public in respect thereof.
We prepared and presented a position paper to the House Joint Committee on the 31st of May, 2018 where we reiterated our position and we urged the House to invoke her powers under Section 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to request NPA to reverse the award of the contract on the ground that the foreign company, the contract was awarded to, Dredging International Services Ltd, was a sister company of a convicted company (Dredging International Services Cyprus, both subsidiaries of DEME Group Belgium) having been convicted upon an investigation by the office of the Attorney General, Department of International Affairs, Switzerland on allegations that the company and some officials of the NPA were alleged to have been involved in a bribe for contract scandal of Twenty Million U.S. Dollars ($20,000,00) and subsequently convicted on the 2nd of May 2012 and fined One Million Swiss Francs, by the court for bribing Nigeria officials. We also prayed the Committee to blacklist the said convicted company from Bidding for or executing contracts in Nigeria in accordance with S. 16 (cool (e) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.”

The Dredging company received the contracts despite many sanctions against them and are still convicted in Europe for illegal transactions with Nigerian companies and other criminal offences.

https://aledeh.com/revealed-npa-awards-n717-billion-dredging-contract-to-banned-cypriot-company/

Hahaha, things they've been doing since! Guys please lets open our eyes, lets remove these thieves from power before they take our Country down the drain
Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by jayson87: 1:28pm On Sep 08, 2018
first was N300 million to design Nigerian Air logo contracted to a Bahraini firm

Now N717billion to a banned dredging cypriot firm.

Who did we offend in this country that God decided to cause us with bad leaders and fake prophets

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by slivertongue: 1:32pm On Sep 08, 2018
I know dat as election draws near every hidden corrupt act wil come 2d fore. this govt is indeed an unmitigated disaster

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by positivethought: 1:38pm On Sep 08, 2018
Babygiwa:
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Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company
Rilwan Adetayo Balogun 1 day ago
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The Nigeria Ports Authority has landed itself in crisis after it awarded huge contracts to a company known to have received bans from conducting any business in some parts of Europe.

Anti-corruption non governmental agency, Cardrell has revealed the extent of corruption that has gone down at the NPA.

Cardrell’s investigations, made available to ALEDEH revealed that the company was awarded a contract of $70million without bidding at all and that some senior figures in the NPA enjoy special benefits.

It was also revealed that foreign news outlets have reported the case of the Cypriot Dredging Company and had gone all out for the NPA in their reports, but quite alarmingly, the agency still went ahead to sanction a deal with the banned company.

According to an investigative assessment by Cardrell of NPA’s involvement in the high-ground corrupt practise, it said;

“Sometimes in February, 2018 we stumbled on a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport to the Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement, requesting the issuance of a Certificate of No Objection for the award of contract on remedial works at Escravos Channel-Replacement of Aids to Navigation and Minor Dredging at Delta Ports, Warri, to enable it award the said contract to Messrs Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited at the sum of Forty-Four Million, Eight Hundred and Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Six US Dollars ($44,861,596.81).

Upon investigation, we discovered there was indeed a previous bribe for contract scandal involving the NPA, and the said company. Surprisingly, the said scandal was conspicuously reported in major news in Nigeria, Overseas and various online news portals, ranging from;
Vanguard Newspaper of 24th August, 2017; Tribune Newspaper of 17th October, 2017; Punch Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Thisday of 30th July, 2017; Nation Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Premiumtimes on the 18th of June, 2017; newtelegraphonline on the 24th of August, 2017; businessandmaritimewestafrica.com on the 17th of October, 2017
Even, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – an International Online Magazine – reported it thus;
NPA awards dredging contract worth US$70,000,00 Seventy Million US Dollars each year to Dredging International Services, without competitive bidding, as required by the Nigeria Laws.

And till date this convicted company is believed to have won jobs worth at least (N717 ,000,000,000.00) Seven Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira (US$2,280,000,000.00) Two Billion, Twenty Eight Million US Dollars from NPA.

We immediately wrote a letter dated the 6th day of March, 2018 to the Director General of the BPP drawing his attention to the notorious fact that the company they were about awarding a contract to, Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited, was convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in Switzerland, and that awarding the contract to the said company would be contrary to clear provisions of S. 16 (cool (e) & (f) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.
Sometimes in April, 2018, we got a call from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Lagos office that our petition to the BPP has been referred to them for investigation. We immediately visited the EFCC office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where we made statements and submitted documents and were also grilled by a group of investigators, who then promised to get back to us, if the need arises. We have subsequently visited the office of the EFCC severally thereafter, and they have promised investigations into the matter was still ongoing.”

The investigations also involved a publication by This Day Newspaper where members of the public were invited to a public hearing by the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement over the case.

“By a Thisday Newspaper publication dated the 13th day of May, 2018, the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement in exercise of its investigative/quasi-judicial powers, as defined in S. 88 & 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) invited members of the public to a public hearing/investigation into the matter and called for memoranda/position papers from the general public in respect thereof.
We prepared and presented a position paper to the House Joint Committee on the 31st of May, 2018 where we reiterated our position and we urged the House to invoke her powers under Section 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to request NPA to reverse the award of the contract on the ground that the foreign company, the contract was awarded to, Dredging International Services Ltd, was a sister company of a convicted company (Dredging International Services Cyprus, both subsidiaries of DEME Group Belgium) having been convicted upon an investigation by the office of the Attorney General, Department of International Affairs, Switzerland on allegations that the company and some officials of the NPA were alleged to have been involved in a bribe for contract scandal of Twenty Million U.S. Dollars ($20,000,00) and subsequently convicted on the 2nd of May 2012 and fined One Million Swiss Francs, by the court for bribing Nigeria officials. We also prayed the Committee to blacklist the said convicted company from Bidding for or executing contracts in Nigeria in accordance with S. 16 (cool (e) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.”

The Dredging company received the contracts despite many sanctions against them and are still convicted in Europe for illegal transactions with Nigerian companies and other criminal offences.

https://aledeh.com/revealed-npa-awards-n717-billion-dredging-contract-to-banned-cypriot-company/
most times when I hear people talk of buhari having integrity,been honest n fighting corruption,I just laugh,Nigerians will be shocked if buhari is voted out n his government is probed.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by CSTR1005: 1:44pm On Sep 08, 2018
Look at the obvious waste of money. In bribes and kick backs.

And I am not even talking about the national security implications involved in giving such a project to an unscrupulous firm.

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by Bullhari007(m): 1:50pm On Sep 08, 2018
some Minions from West will say, Must Barbar be in every Agency , look at them confuse dirty pigs without course

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Re: Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company by bixton(m): 1:51pm On Sep 08, 2018
Babygiwa:
ALEDEH.COM
Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company
Rilwan Adetayo Balogun 1 day ago
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The Nigeria Ports Authority has landed itself in crisis after it awarded huge contracts to a company known to have received bans from conducting any business in some parts of Europe.

Anti-corruption non governmental agency, Cardrell has revealed the extent of corruption that has gone down at the NPA.

Cardrell’s investigations, made available to ALEDEH revealed that the company was awarded a contract of $70million without bidding at all and that some senior figures in the NPA enjoy special benefits.

It was also revealed that foreign news outlets have reported the case of the Cypriot Dredging Company and had gone all out for the NPA in their reports, but quite alarmingly, the agency still went ahead to sanction a deal with the banned company.

According to an investigative assessment by Cardrell of NPA’s involvement in the high-ground corrupt practise, it said;

“Sometimes in February, 2018 we stumbled on a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport to the Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement, requesting the issuance of a Certificate of No Objection for the award of contract on remedial works at Escravos Channel-Replacement of Aids to Navigation and Minor Dredging at Delta Ports, Warri, to enable it award the said contract to Messrs Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited at the sum of Forty-Four Million, Eight Hundred and Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Six US Dollars ($44,861,596.81).

Upon investigation, we discovered there was indeed a previous bribe for contract scandal involving the NPA, and the said company. Surprisingly, the said scandal was conspicuously reported in major news in Nigeria, Overseas and various online news portals, ranging from;
Vanguard Newspaper of 24th August, 2017; Tribune Newspaper of 17th October, 2017; Punch Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Thisday of 30th July, 2017; Nation Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Premiumtimes on the 18th of June, 2017; newtelegraphonline on the 24th of August, 2017; businessandmaritimewestafrica.com on the 17th of October, 2017
Even, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – an International Online Magazine – reported it thus;
NPA awards dredging contract worth US$70,000,00 Seventy Million US Dollars each year to Dredging International Services, without competitive bidding, as required by the Nigeria Laws.

And till date this convicted company is believed to have won jobs worth at least (N717 ,000,000,000.00) Seven Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira (US$2,280,000,000.00) Two Billion, Twenty Eight Million US Dollars from NPA.

We immediately wrote a letter dated the 6th day of March, 2018 to the Director General of the BPP drawing his attention to the notorious fact that the company they were about awarding a contract to, Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited, was convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in Switzerland, and that awarding the contract to the said company would be contrary to clear provisions of S. 16 (cool (e) & (f) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.
Sometimes in April, 2018, we got a call from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Lagos office that our petition to the BPP has been referred to them for investigation. We immediately visited the EFCC office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where we made statements and submitted documents and were also grilled by a group of investigators, who then promised to get back to us, if the need arises. We have subsequently visited the office of the EFCC severally thereafter, and they have promised investigations into the matter was still ongoing.”

The investigations also involved a publication by This Day Newspaper where members of the public were invited to a public hearing by the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement over the case.

“By a Thisday Newspaper publication dated the 13th day of May, 2018, the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement in exercise of its investigative/quasi-judicial powers, as defined in S. 88 & 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) invited members of the public to a public hearing/investigation into the matter and called for memoranda/position papers from the general public in respect thereof.
We prepared and presented a position paper to the House Joint Committee on the 31st of May, 2018 where we reiterated our position and we urged the House to invoke her powers under Section 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to request NPA to reverse the award of the contract on the ground that the foreign company, the contract was awarded to, Dredging International Services Ltd, [b]was a sister company of a convicted company (Dredging International Services Cyprus, both subsidiaries of DEME Group Belgium) having been convicted upon [/b]an investigation by the office of the Attorney General, Department of International Affairs, Switzerland on allegations that the company and some officials of the NPA were alleged to have been involved in a bribe for contract scandal of Twenty Million U.S. Dollars ($20,000,00) and subsequently convicted on the 2nd of May 2012 and fined One Million Swiss Francs, by the court for bribing Nigeria officials. We also prayed the Committee to blacklist the said convicted company from Bidding for or executing contracts in Nigeria in accordance with S. 16 (cool (e) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.”

The Dredging company received the contracts despite many sanctions against them and are still convicted in Europe for illegal transactions with Nigerian companies and other criminal offences.

https://aledeh.com/revealed-npa-awards-n717-billion-dredging-contract-to-banned-cypriot-company/

What is the essence of this entire misleading narrative all in the name of wanting to deny a company a contract job.
The bolded does not tally.
You stylishly interwove words and you did not do it well.
The only case here is that there was no open bidding involving other companies alike and that may likely not be an issue if a couple of documents from the company are perfect with respect to the contract job.

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