The Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal is under fire over suspicious payments his company, Rholavision Engineering Ltd, received from a contract he awarded for the clearing of grasses in Yobe State, TheCable reports.
It was revealed that the company’s bank account statement, the company got N10m from Josmon Technologies Ltd 20 times from March 29.
Jimson Technologies Ltd was one of the companies awarded N248, 939, 231 to clear grass under the Presidential Initiative on Northeast (PINE) supervised by Lawal.
The contractor made cash deposits of N10m into Lawal’s company’s account 20 times from March 29, according to the obtained documents.
Investigators believe the suspicious payments were bribes.
However, in his reaction to a call for his resignation by the Senate on Wednesday, December 14, the SGF distanced himself from his company, claiming he resigned from the company on August 15, 2015.
But according to a Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) document obtained by The Cable, Lawal was a director of Rholavision until September 16, 2016, when he wrote to the commission informing it of his intention to relinquish 1, 500, 000 ordinary shares.
The senate had demanded Lawal’s resignation over alleged corruption in the management of funds for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the northeast.
PINE, under Lawal, allegedly misappropriated N2.5billion allocated to it for the alleviation of the suffering of IDPs.
In October, PINE and the Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) were collapsed into the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative (PCNI), and it was placed under the supervision of Theophilus Danjuma, a retired general.
