Barracks contract fraud: IGP orders investigation of senior officers

By KINGSLEY OMONOBI, AbujaA monumental fraud involving billions of naira meant for the rehabilitation of several  Police dilapidated barracks across the country has been uncovered with a furious Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, setting up a Special Task Force at Force headquarters to unearth those behind the fraud. The fraud was uncovered even as it has emerged that over N5billion of the N7billion released by the federal government in 2010 for payment to contractors who had completed jobs for the Police in the last five years was diverted into a bank by a former administration of the force while the contractors have wallowed in suffering. Saturday Vanguard gathered that while most of the barracks which are in embarrassing state were recorded as having been awarded for renovation and money released for such repairs, there was nothing on ground to collaborate such records