The new management of the Nigerian Ports Authority has uncovered
fraud totalling N11.23 billion at the agency, as revealed by the
officials in the know.
The officials said the Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman, and her
executive directors have since their assumption of duties on July 18
been poring through the books of the maritime agency.
So far, this newspaper learnt, a series of transactions suspected to be
fraudulent and amounting to N11.23billion have been uncovered.
Of the amount, $24.1million (N7.47billion at N310 per dollar) was traced
to Heritage Bank, the successor bank to the defunct Societe Generale
Bank owned by the Saraki family.
Insiders said the funds were collected by the bank as revenue for NPA,
but that the financial house, in collusion with some officials of the
maritime agency, failed to move it into NPA’s Treasury Single Account
with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
