EXCLUSIVE: How Staff Of Nigeria’s Petroleum Training Institute In Delta Misappropriated Over N1billion Of Institution’s Funds, Got ‘Amnesty’ – Report

In line with the file obtained on Monday, about N400million turned into misappropriated, while some contractors’ profiles aged to notify for contracts weren’t attentive to the existence of such contracts.

Some workers of the Petroleum Practising Institute in Effurun, Delta Reveal, were indicted within the misappropriation of about N1billion of the Institution’s funds, SaharaReporters has learnt.

In a 30-web page file compiled by an Investigative Committee location up in 2020 by the Administration of the Institute, on an Audit Quiz and obtained by SaharaReporters, findings revealed that about 10 workers were stumbled on guilty of diverse financial offences.

In line with the file obtained on Monday, about N400million turned into misappropriated, while some contractors’ profiles aged to notify for contracts weren’t attentive to the existence of such contracts.

The file has it extra that the DFA and his workers made funds that weren’t certified by audit division.

An external auditor file moreover asserted that some contractors and consultants weren’t adequately supervised and monitored within the formulation of projects execution, especially with excessive price of renovation works of over N900million at varied blocks of flats.

Some workers of the Institute berated the Performing Main/Chief Government for lately granting Amnesty to the workers fervent, which they talked about translated to misuse of energy.

He turned into moreover among the many indicted workers as he turned into the Director of Companies and products of the Institute then as indicted by the Committee.

The file reads in segment; “The Director of Finance and Accounts being the Sub Accounting Officer of the Institute, per Portion 420 Financial Regulation is responsible to authorize all payment, but he delegated this option to his subordinates.

“He turned into copied on a letter written by Fiksam that’s signed by yet another firm (Metropolis Code) which is terribly unique and irregular. He should always web notified the Main/CE on this irregularity but he did not. The Committee views this as a deliberated formulation of concealing valuable recordsdata that will web helped the Main/CE to to find an educated decision letter from Fiksam. Rather, he did the funds on the pretext that the minute of the Main/CE to him of “pls address” formulation “payment permitted”.

“There were insertions made on vouchers that weren’t certified. There were some alterations in one of the payment vouchers, while the DFA and his workers made payment that turned into not certified by audit division.

“Quite a bit of the funds in interrogate weren’t made to persons named within the payment voucher but with defective devices and some weren’t licensed by the usual contractors/consultants.

“The payment to third events turned into not supplied to the DFA for inspection, neither turned into there any certificate exhibiting that they’ve been considered by Audit. Quite a bit of the in-condo estimates were over bloated.

“That the costs for the consultancy contracts weren’t determined the usage of the appropriate scale of bills.”

One of the high administration workers who confirmed the Committee file to SaharaReporters on Tuesday, fundamental that the Committee turned into location up in 2020, when a brand unique Main/CE resumed, and received a couple of petitions received from workers of the Institute.

“Yes, I am attentive to the Committee, it turned into location up in 2020, when a brand unique Main/CE resumed, and I received a couple of petitions from the institute workers,” he added.

In a connected file compiled by an external Auditor obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday, talked about that capital funds appropriated in 2020 to enable completion of allaged and abandoned projects weren’t accomplished.

It reads; “Lack of due diligence within the award, execution and payment of contract jobs At some level of our inspection of all on going and accomplished projects within the Institute, we noticed that:

“Unregistered companies with Procurement Division were awarded contracts.

“Capital funds appropriated in 2020 to enable completion of allaged and abandoned projects weren’t accomplished. Abandoned projects for which appropriation were made embrace: building of integrated jetty and offshore coaching facility(2011), completion of 700 metre network of Rd linking 3 study building segment 11(2013), building of usual swimming pool at Aladja (2017) and building of external works of corrosion see centre(2014) Some contractors and consultants weren’t adequately supervised and monitored within the formulation of projects execution, especially with excessive price of renovation works of over N914.766.269.23 at varied blocks of flats.

“Quite a bit of the contractors compromised the integrity of the projects by the usage of nasty and unfavorable materials. The finishing stage of quite lots of the constructions renovated turned into grossly underneath average Some assets procured by the institute weren’t set aside to make exercise of long after procurement.”

 Meanwhile, some workers of the Institute in a letter addressed to the Minister Of Petroleum and dated Twenty fourth of July, accused the college administration of defending the fervent workers from all disciplinary actions.

The workers lamented that the Performing Main/Chief Government granted the indicted workers amnesty, which translated to misuse of energy, to all indicted workers including himself.

The letter reads in segment; “We write to the Honourable Minister of Reveal Petroleum Sources (Oil) on the above topic matter as Enthusiastic Individuals of Crew of Petroleum Practising Institute, Effurun, Delta Reveal Our major pastime is to supply protection to and promote public accountability, transparency, justice, and equity within the conduct of public decent per international easiest practices especially in a fairly a number of institute esteem the Petroleum Practising Institute which turned into largely location as much as fetch professional manpower to the Nigerian Petroleum Industry, the mainstay of the Nigerian economic system.

“On 19 Would possibly well moreover, 2021, an Investigative Committee (Annexture A) turned into location up by the Administration of the Institute on an Audit Quiz by the Chief Inside Auditor (CIA) to the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA). After exhaustive work by the Committee, about ten (10) workers were stumbled on guilty of diverse financial offences, thereafter solutions were made by the investigative committee. Thereafter, the administration constituted a Disciplinary Committee (Annexture B) which advised disciplinary measures as contained within the file.

“Since the conclusion of the Disciplinary Committee’s work, PTI Administration has shielded the fervent workers from all disciplinary actions. On the different hand, on the 4 of June 2024, the Performing Main/Chief Government granted Amnesty, which translated to misuse of energy, to all indicted workers including himself as he turned into the Director of Companies and products of the Institute and among those indicted by the Committee.

“This has created a valuable disharmony between him and members of high administration which almost grew to turn out to be to confrontational but for restrain by one of the members, as a consequent of the amnesty granted, a valuable stress turned into created within the Institute thus this letter for the Intervention of the Honourable Minister for peace to reign within the Institute.

“Somehow, we’re calling the attention of the Honourable Minister of Reveal (Oil) to see into this matter with the search of entrenching a culture of transparency and accountability within the plot, and sanctioning those stumbled on guilty in step with the advice of the Disciplinary Committee per our extant criminal pointers.”

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