NCAA OVERSHOOTS 2013 VECHICLE BUDGET BY N403M

The management of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revealed that it made extra budgetary spending of its 2013 Appropriation, and confessed that the purchase of two BMW bulletproof cars for Stella Oduah, minister of aviation, was carried out without the National Assembly’s permission
This is even as the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) washed its hands off the process of the procurement of the said vehicles.

This was the outcome of about six hours of investigative hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation on the purchase of the cars at $1.6 million (about N255 million).

During the hearing, NCAA testified that approval for the purchase of the cars was obtained from the office of the aviation minister.

It was also revealed that the prices of the vehicles were inflated along the line of purchase, as NCAA in its memo to the minister claimed that the vehicles were sold at N70 million each, but eventually paid a little over N127 million each for the cars.

During the hearing, Fola Akinkuotu, director, NCAA, who exonerated himself from the transaction, claimed that the purchase process started and was concluded before he assumed office last August.

This left Joyce Nkemakolam, who was in acting capacity to clear the air…