CBN Governor Awards N5 Billion Contract To el-Rufai Without Due Process

…As Sanusi is set to Marry Former FCT Minister's Sister

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido is in the news again for the wrong reason.
The governor was reported to have awarded contracts worth N5 billion to former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai without due process.

CBN Governor, Sanusi

The center, which will be where the old NITEL building was, would have malls, business centers, and sundry commercial and recreational concerns. A South African firm demolished the old NITEL building.
Report said Sanusi gave el-Rufai's quantity surveying firm the multi billion-naira contract because he is in love with the sister. We gathered that both men would soon be in-laws.
We also gathered that preparations are on top gear because the kid sister of el-Rufai may soon be Mrs Lamido Sanusi. The Nikai is expected to take place soon in Daudawa, Faskari Local Government area of Katsina state.
There also indications that el-Rufai's firm also got a large part of the N64 Billion FCT city gate project that would have pedestrian bridges; the Northern axis would have conference rooms, parade ground, botanical garden, five star hotel and hospital among others.
Sources hinted that the CBN which has disbursed over N163 billion so far under the Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR sub head, has concluded plans to build another events center in Garki, Abuja for a whooping sum of N84 billion.

Former minister, El-Rufai

El-Rufai and Partners Limited, design cost associates based in Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja has already landed the design contract for the center.
The professional fee for the firm which is said to stand at 6 per cent is about N5 billion. Besides there is no evidence that due process was followed by the CBN in the award.
The total cost is said to be a little above N94 Billion with about N10 Billion going into professional fees for surveyors, architects. Sources in the CBN headquarters disclosed that the CBN Governor has been capitalizing on the liberal nature of the President to award contracts to his friends and cronies.
He said, “Can you imagine Sanusi awarding contracts to his friends under a General Sani Abacha or even President Musa Yar'Adua? This can only happen simply because President Goodluck Jonathan is very liberal-minded, he simply allows people to get away with a lot of thing.”
It would be recalled that el-Rufai joined critics of the federal government shortly after he left the economic team of Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo and his exit as FCT minister.