Three former top officials of the Nigerian Ports Authority and a former
special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan have been named in a massive
foreign bribery scandal that has led to the conviction of a company and some of
its top officials in Switzerland, Premium Times reported.
Dredging International Services (Cyprus) Ltd was sentenced to a fine of one
million Swiss Francs and asked to refund 36 million Swiss Francs illegal profit
after it was indicted for allegedly making illicit payments to a former
Managing Director of the NPA, Adebayo Sarumi; a former Managing Director of
NPA’s Eastern Ports, Felix Ovbude; a former Executive Director of Finance at
the NPA, Abba Murtala Mohammed; and Daniel Afam-Obi, a former executive
assistant to Sullivan Akachukwu Nwankpo who was ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan’s special adviser on technical matters.
Investigators believe Mr. Afam-Obi acted on behalf of Mr. Nwankpo. While Messrs Sarumi, Ovbude and Mohammed allegedly collectively received
$2.6million in kickbacks, Mr. Afam-Obi was said to have been paid $157,000 for
unknown reasons. Another $18million dollar was passed to companies in which
some yet unknown Nigerian officials have interests.
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