Group alleges secret contract award, petitions Senate

Concerned group of LPG gas dealers has petitioned the Senate Committee on gas resources over alleged secret award of N150b contract to an oil company.

The group in the petition signed by its national chairman Comrade Sule Mohammed said the award of the multi-billion naira contract did not follow due process, as enshrined in the public Procurement Act of 2007 as amended and asked Federal government to quickly terminate the processs in the interest of the public .

The group alleged that “as a company that benefits from the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Rungas failed to carry out the project of building a composite cylinder manufacturing plant as mandated by the federal goverment in 2016. The project itself was not presented to the National Assembly for approval.”

Comrade Mohammed in the two page petition made available to journalists in Abuja also asked the Federal government to stop the award of the contract and ensure due diligence.

He allegedly that “the whole transaction was done in secret, no transparency and the Company is not competent. The Company has not met the criteria set by the Regulatory Agency and was not presented to the National Asembly for Appropriations.”