Some former ministers of defence and some retired senior officers are
said to be jittery as another probe panel has been set up by the Chief
of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai.
Informed military
sources disclosed to Saturday Tribune that the eight man panel, headed
by a General, is to investigate all equipment and other logistics bought
by the Nigerian Army from 2010 to 2015.
One of the sources revealed
that “the panel is to find out the names of the contractors who executed
the jobs and supplied the equipment and at what cost.”
The
source told the Saturday Tribune that on all the jobs and contracts
executed, “the panel will find out which of the contracts were done and
those yet to be done and at what level of completion are they now
Saturday Tribune gathered authoritatively that the probe by the Nigerian
Army is quite different from the one set up by President Muhammadu
Buhari last month while sources close to some ex-defence minister and
some retired senior officers said they were worried over the modus
operandi of the probe panel.
The military source revealed that
“much of the equipment was either not supplied or is of inferior
quality, hence the Army chief is determined to get to the root of all
the so-called awarded contracts.”
The source added that the panel
will not invite anybody for the probe, but will go into the records of
the supplies and contracts at Army Headquarters and retrieve all files
related to the contracts.”
Saturday Tribune gathered that the
panel would also find out from the records “at what amount the contract
to supply or to build was awarded and how much was paid.”
The
probe panel, which has been inaugurated, is to commence investigations
next week and would tour all the military formations in the country to
find out the true position of things.
The military source added,
that even the equipment that was supplied to all the army locations in
which they are kept would be visited and “the panel will find out the
state it is, and from which country it was purchased.”
Also the
panel is to find out “if the contractors that executed the projects and
supplied the equipment are fully registered with the military and are
also specialists in those areas of the equipment they supplied.”
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