TerrySoft:

One thing that surprises me is how an average Nigerian thinks. I'm sorry for those who advise you to go take some peanus and walk away.

denowo:

I believe you wont be making so much noise if they had offered you enough money to live on the fast lane

It is common practice to be paid far lower than the client is paying your employers for your services, my oyinbo friends works for one of the big consultancy company here in the UK and his salary is about £80,000 per annum but the client pays £2018 per day for his services, i would leave you to do the sums yourself. So no criime has been committed if they pay you N110k for every N800k they receive,afterall you agreed to the contract.

In all things confidentiality is important,you might succeed in taking them to court but no employer wants a disloyal staff.

The importance of the certificate is determined by the employer,it wasnt until about 4 years ago that it became compulsory for all central govt finance directors to be chartered accountants and and i know a lot of them with over 25 years experience who are not chartered and they are very good.

Maybe, I need to throw more light on this. There is existing a public-private partnership aggreement to manage jointly, the Operations Division of the Water Board by my former employers and the Water Board. The private partner (Ortech) provides KEY critical staff in the partnership who are paid from the commonwealth. Then, members of the partnership (Ortech and Waterboard) would share the profit accrueing from the sales of water at an aggreed percentage, after deduction of cost of business. All cost incurred in the course of executing the partnership are submitted at the end of the month by the two partners to the Partnership Committee for vetting and reimbursement from the commonwealth. Now does one partner have the right to submit and claim stuff like air fares, hotel accomodation, staff development and training, medical, etc when no such facilities are enjoyed by any staff, and they actually get paid?

How on earth would one white man (stylishly called expertraite) with a maximum qualification of Primary School Certificate and Certificate in Welding obtained after 2 weeks of training in a UK auto-shop be employed to work in Nigeria as Manager and be paid the USD equivalent of N4 million a month, is paid exactly the same, lives in a free house, is entitled to 4 flights back and forth any part of the world per annum (he actually gets this) while the qualified Nigerian Engineer on an invoiced salary of N800,000 per month, takes home N110,000 physically?

What, if a National Diploma Certificate holder is employed to occupy the slot of a graduate engineer, is made to work and function in that capacity, is paid salary as a Diploma technician while the invoice reads ENGINEER with with 20 times the value he is paid?

What if your company supplies Pentium II used computers to the organization in your state in place of NEW Pentium 4 systems, issues invoices to the partnership as if they were new, and gets paid amounts that are completely far from the possible cost of such systems? And the systems are never used for a day because they were not good in the first place? What if you discover that invoices are forged, staff signatures are forged with the intention to drain money from the system and repatraite same abroad?

Everyone,
The reason for making the 'disgruntled' noises is not for the heck of it. The invoices that are sent by these guys are added to an already huge internal debt owed by the state govt to them. Now, the project itself is funded by a World Bank loan facility. Loans are loans, and must be repaid no matter how long it takes. And, if international development partners give loan to Africa, and their brothers come back here, siphon the money and walk away, how and who will repay the loan? These are issue that prick my conscience. As I said in the initial post, am an IT person, meaning that it was very easy to get on with my life. But, all the parties involved in the fraud sorrounding that project are in my opinion, culpable. I started the fight from within before I was laid off. I shall continue the little struggle. I am only looking for alternative ways and ideas from NLanders.

On the EFCC:
The matter was reported. An operative actually visited to make initial contacts. He was convinced that there is massive fraud within the system. An agent (Senior Advocate of Nigeria) was appointed by the accused 'stakeholders' to liaise with him and find the best way to 'settle' the matter. They met in Calabar twice. Met in Abuja many times too. The matter had a life of its own. We were following. Suddenly, a lull set in. The files vanished. The agent was not picking calls again. Stalemate!

Who has a clue?

I believe you wont be making so much noise if they had offered you enough money to live on the fast lane

celemel:

I guess I respect everybody's opinion in this forum, even when I may not agree with a lot of them. Some guys have refused bluntly to understand the reason for my 'fight'. I have pointed it out severally that this matter has nothing to do with my person. I lead a modest comfortable live. No doubt about that. Any guy in IT who knows his onions would tell you that there is plenty to look out for, in the field out there, especially in Nigeria. No doubts!

But, I feel we cannot continue to keep silent and allow a few gluttons feed fat on our common patrimony. We must each do the little we can individually, to cause a change. It is my conviction (and I may be wrong in the eyes of many others, no apologies) that the entire system that sustains the contraption called PPP in the organization in question is designed solely to make a few 'white' men and their Nigerian collaborators, milk us dry and take a walk, while generation unborn bear the consequence of the greed. And, since I have access to the sordid details of this pot-of-mess, I came here to seek for advices on how best to call them to order or worse of all, curtail them.

It however seems that we Nigerians have found comfort-zone in swallowing these bitter pills and coloring any dissent, bad just because we cannot 'rock the boat'. Question: For how long shall we wallow in that mindset? The update I have however is that I have caused the financiers of the project (the World Bank) to start looking into the books hoping that they would not also be compromised.
We all must rise to defend this nation, not through armchair criticism but through concrete physical actions. We have no other country than this that we can call our own. Point!

celemel:

1. What happened to the petition sent by Orji Ozor Kalu (a corrupt politician) to the EFCC over the N200million naira he personally handed to OBJ for the PDP campaign in 1999?
2. What has been the reaction of the EFCC to the multi-billion Naira Presidential Library fraud perpetrated by OBJ during his time in office?
3. What is the outcome of EFCC's investigations into the Bells university scandal with respect to OBJ?
4. Where did Nuhu Ribadu raise the money he used in acquiring the properties he has in Abuja?
5. What happened to the PTDF investigation? Who was indicted? Who was given a clean bill of health?
6. What happened in the petroleum ministry under OBJ?
7. What happened to the Olabode George embezzlement investigation?
8. Where is the petition in respect of the Cross River State Water Board Limited?
9. What happened to the Andy Uba money-for-farm-tools saga?
10. What happened to the investigation into the third-term money-for-votes saga?

There are many questions begging for answers. Institutions are not built around individuals lest, they collapse. EFCC is made of many staff who toil day and night to prosecute the anti-corrption war, and many others who labour to make plenty of money from the war. We cannot equate EFCC with NUHU RIBADU and vice cersa. Ok?

wiseguy:

I don't understand why some people will not take few minutes to go through posts before jabbering on their keyboard. This guy's post is simple, clear and understandable. Whether he is doing it because he was laid off is not the issue. That he is a supposedly disgruntled employee does not sweep the alleged case of fraud under the rug.

What is important is that he has facts to prove that fraud was committed, he did the right thing to report to the EFCC and EFCC, the last time i checked, has the mandate to investigate and prosecute all economic and financial crimes pepertrated against the state and not only the ones perpetrated by Atiku, Kalu and other politicians. Also, that the case file of the matter got missing in EFCC's custody is another serious issue and shows that there is an underhand manouvering that went on.

In this era of transparency and accountability, it is absurd that some people will be championing the theory of "letting sleeping dogs lie". And tomorrow we all will assemble in nairaland to cast aspersions on our leaders. If we have nothing to advise the poster, we rather not post anything.

@celemel,
Like some other people have said, assemble your facts and pursue this issue to a logical conclusion.
You need to give out the information you have. I am an IT professional like you and I believe you know your onions and so i do not need to tell you the way to go.

The media is your greatest weapon. There are so many journalists looking for hot stories that will get them their desired promotion. Infact, journalists will take the fight from you and do a thorough investigation than you've done and if it's a good case, believe me they will blow it to high heavens.