EXCLUSIVE: How Zamfara Governor, Matawalle Paid N118Million To Company Linked To Former Campaign Director, Jamilu Zannah For Abandoned Governor’s Lodge Project

Indubitably one of the companies awarded multi-billion-naira projects by the outgoing Zamfara Screech Governor, Bello Mohammed for the building of governor’s lodges all over the 14 local executive areas of the dispute, has been linked with Jamilu Zannah, SaharaReporters’ investigation has printed.

Zannah used to be Governor Bello’s extinct campaign director staunch by the 2019 general election. Zannah, a extinct chairman of the dispute chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), died in December 2021 after a prolonged illness.

The behind Zannah used to be amongst the directors of Zannah Kachalla World Link, an organization that used to be paid N118,281,150.00 for the building of the Governor’s Lodge within the Maradun Local Govt Set up. In the period in-between, despite the truth that the overall quantity of the award has been deducted from the dispute treasury, the challenge has no longer reached 70% completion.

SaharaReporters’ investigation printed that Zannah Kachalla World Link used to be registered on July 7, 2014, with RC number: 1205042 and has Jamilu Aliyu Zannah, and some of his family members who were identified as Khadiza Jamilu Zannah, Aliyu Jamilu and Umar Muhammad as its directors.

SaharaReporters had reported how the Zamfara Screech executive under Governor Matawalle spent billions of naira on the building of governors’ lodges all over the 14 local executive areas of the dispute, which bear now been abandoned.

The projects consist of the building and furnishing of a Governor’s Lodge in each local executive home which has gulped huge portions of money which the projects on the flooring can not interpret.

The amount earmarked and launched for each local executive home differs, and the projects were shared amongst assorted contractors for execution.

There bear been elephantine payments made in some cases and over 90 per cent of payments were made to a few contractors without the corresponding projects on the flooring. To illustrate, some projects were abandoned midway by in some local executive areas.

In step with recordsdata bought from Nigeria24 and NG-Study.com on Monday, Might even simply 8, 2023, the outlets that provide recordsdata on registered companies in Nigeria, Zannah Kachalla World Link, the corporate that used to be paid N118 million for the building of the challenge within the Maradun Local Govt Set up, used to be registered for Lodge and Hospitality products and services.

This implies that the Zamfara executive violated the Public Procurement Act of 2007 by awarding the contract to Zannah Kachalla World Link, an organization owned by a extinct campaign director for the dispute governor whose impact would bear an impact on equity staunch by the bidding and general procurement course of for the challenge.

Sections 57 and 58 of the Public Procurement Act, 2007 prohibit public officers from enticing in or awarding public contracts.

Part 57(9) states, “Every public officer interested in the present day or now indirectly within the matters of public procurement and disposal of sources shall divest himself of any interest or relationship, that are likely inimical or detrimental to the one interest of the manager.”

When SaharaReporters known as the Director Total of the Zamfara Screech Bureau of Public Procurement, Maiharaji Altine Gusau, to gather his response to our findings, he blamed the dispute Finance and Total Purpose Committee (FGPC) for the irregularities within the procurement processes.

He acknowledged, “The vow used to be staunch by FGPC. The physique used to be in management of awarding of contracts sooner than BPP used to be established in 2022.”

In April, SaharaReporters reported that Matawalle accredited the originate of funds from the dispute treasury for price of projects all over the dispute, an excellent deal of which bear been abandoned.

Investigation printed that many of the contractors awarded the projects were connected in the present day or now indirectly to the governor.

Most incessantly, the contractors were awarded a few contracts starting from the building of roads to the building of Governor’s lodges all over the local executive areas of the dispute. The abandoned projects bear consumed billions of naira.

An investigation into the projects uncovered the mismanagement of dispute funds with bulk payments made to contractors for works that had yet to be performed and even commence.

To illustrate, the dispute executive accredited the sum of N593,535,254.00 for the building of the twin carriageway that hyperlinks Kaiwa to Lamba to Gidan Goga ward on the Kauran Namoda/Shinkafi Federal Dual carriageway. In the period in-between, the overall sum of N525,510,516.77 had been launched to the contractor, MotherCat Nigeria Diminutive.

The prominent price for the challenge used to be N68,024,737.23, yet no work had started on the positioning.

The outgoing executive also accredited the sum of N1,875,259,890.00 (N1.8 billion) for the building of Danmarke to Kanoma Avenue within the Maru Local Govt Set up of the dispute. SaharaReporters’ investigation confirmed that the sum of N1,567,566,531.65 (roughly N1.6 billion) had been withdrawn from the manager myth and launched to the contractor Nael Bin Harmal Hydro Export (NBHH) Nigeria Diminutive. The prominent price used to be N307,693,358.35 (about N308 million) but sadly, the challenge used to be yet to commence on the time of file.

Additionally, Syndicate Construction and Business Firm Diminutive used to be awarded a contract to do two roads; the Maradun to Magami and Faru Avenue within the local executive home of the governor and Mada to Wonaka R/Bore Avenue. The sum of N3, 391, 118, 189. 70 (about N3.4 billion) used to be withdrawn from Zamfara Screech’s treasury and launched as price for the work, which had yet to commence now to not tell reach completion level.

Additionally, the sum of N172.4 million had been launched by the dispute executive to M. Sulaiman Enterprises Diminutive as price for the building of a 600m Chediya Ukku – Gidan Mayana – Magama – Tullukawa along Anka Avenue.

SaharaReporters’ investigation confirmed that despite the associated price, no work had started on the twin carriageway.

A contractor, Stable Soils Diminutive, used to be given a job to do Kwanar Magarya – Magama – Yanbuki – Jibiya Avenue and the sum of N929.5 billion used to be launched by the dispute executive as price for the work, yet there used to be nothing on the flooring to existing for it.

Matawalle also accredited the reconstruction and completion of the Total Nicely being facility within the Shinkafi local council home with the sum of N2,429,301,036.61 (N2.4 billion) already launched to the contractor 180 Circle Construction and Engineering Diminutive, which is greater than 80 per cent of the overall quantity accredited for the challenge.

All over again, there used to be nothing on the positioning to interpret that N2.4 billion had been launched for the job.