FG Deploys Technology To Curb Contract Fraud
Federal government has deployed technology to end contract fraud in the country.
The attorney general of the federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami disclosed this to State House correspondents after the federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.
He listed the P&ID, Ajaokuta steel and Sunrise litigations which exposed the country to not only litigation but enormous monetary damages which indeed affected the development as a nation.
He said, “The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federationpresented a memo to the council this afternoon. And it is for the engagement of consultancy firms for the development and deployment of a federal government contracts administration system for ministries, departments, and agencies of government and the digitisation of the process of solicitor’s department.
“By way of historical antecedents, we are all aware of key incidents that happened as it relates to contracts administration in Nigeria.
“One of them that is fresh in our memory is the P&ID on account of which the federal government was by arbitrary award subjected to a liability of over $10 billion on account of deficiency in the contract which translated to a higher risk.
“We are equally aware of the global steel contract relating to Ajaokuta. The defect subjected the federal government to a higher risk and stagnated our development towards industrialisation on account of the fact that for over two decades, Ajaokuta could not perform, arising from the litigation.
Wife of the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Alhaja Titi Atiku Abubakar, has described her husband as a Fulani man with a difference.
Pointedly, she said "Atiku is a Fulani man but an "educated Fulani man" and not the "killer one".
Speaking in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday during a presidential rally, Mrs. Atiku said her husband portrays the attributes and character of a "Yoruba man" even more than his Fulani origin.
"My husband (Atiku Abubakar) won the last election but they took it back from us by force. Some people are saying my husband is a Fulani. Truly, he's an educated Fulani man, not the Fulani that kills and he portrays the character of a Yoruba man.
"He lived in Lagos for so many years. He has traveled worldwide. He is an exposed man. I am a Yoruba woman but married to Atiku. I gave him good children and my children have Yoruba blood flowing in their bodies. "
While noting that she had married her husband for over 40 years, noting that no one knew Mr. Atiku better than she does, Mrs. Atiku further stated that the issue of Boko Haram would also become a thing of the past by the time her husband emerges the president of the country.