Facts have emerged how the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, who owns Rholavision Engineering Ltd, got N200m kickback from a contract he awarded for the clearing of “invasive plant species” in Yobe state.
In the course of an investigation conducted by TheNewsGuru on the several corruption allegations leveled against the SGF by the Senate, we exclusively obtained bank statements and relevant documents which revealed how a company, named Josmon Technologies Ltd, got contract from Lawal’s Presidential Initiative on Northeast (PINE) to clear grass for N248, 939, 231, and made cash deposits of N10m into the SGF’s company’s account (Rholavision Engineering Ltd) 20 times from March 29.
In the bank statements of Rholavision and some other related documents obtained by TheNewsGuru, Josmon Technologies Ltd, the company, which got the contract from Lawal to clear grass for N248, 939, 231, made cash deposits of N10m into Lawal’s company’s account 20 times from March 29.
Lawal who had awarded the contract to Josmon Technologies on March 8. continued to receive cash deposits from Josmos Tech until September when he later resigned from Rholavision.
However, it will be recalled that the SGF while recently reacting to a call for his resignation by the senate said that he had resigned from his company on August 15, 2015, and as a result was not a party to whatever business it contracted.
Notwithstanding, another document from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) revealed that Lawal was the director of Rholavision until September 16, 2016 before he wrote to the commission about his intention to sell off 1, 500, 000 ordinary shares.
PINE, which was later renamed to Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative (PCNI), and placed under custody of Theophilus Danjuma, a retired general, could not account for N2.5bn allocated to it for the alleviation of the suffering of IDPs in the northeast while under Lawal.
Lawal, was under severe criticism of the Senate over comments credited to him wherein he slammed the Senate for linking him to the alleged diversion of the 223-million-naira meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast.
The Senate condemned Babachir’s comment saying it contradicts the position of the Buhari-led corruption government, however the SGF, in his own reaction, dispelled the senate’s stand saying it is all nonsense.
See some of the documents…