EFCC Probes Senator $34.5m Deal With NPA

Senator is in trouble over a curious $34.5million contract awarded to a firm allegedly owned by him.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) awarded the contract during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

The contract was part of the dredging of the Calabar Access Channel by the Calabar Channel Management Limited (CCM), with Niger Global Engineering and Technical Company Limited.

But all efforts by the new NPA management to find the details of dredging for the period during which CCM claimed to have dredged the Calabar Access Channel (November 2014 to January 2015) have proved abortive.

NPA is seeking the approval of its Board of Directors to terminate the contract. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is, however, probing the payment of $12,500,000 to the senator’s company.

UCJ, UNILORIN.