How Nigeria’s Population Commission mismanaged N245 billion on undelivered products, other controversial contracts – Auditor-General
8 billion local content contract breached BPP directive The auditor-general also accused the NPC of disregarding a BPP directive on local content in the procurement of PDAs worth N96.
The National Population Commission (NPC) awarded and paid for census-related contracts worth billions of naira without adequate evidence of delivery, according to the Auditor-General for the Federation, who said it also inflated the prices of some contracts and breached procurement rules.
The office attributed the irregularities largely to weaknesses in the NPC’s internal control system and recommended that the commission’s Director-General account to the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committees and recover billions of naira for remittance to the Treasury.
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