After wasting N1.4bn, Conduct Bureau abandons own N3.5bn headquarters project, seeks N4.4bn to buy another

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has abandoned its
multi-billion naira headquarters building after
committing N1.4 billion to the project, PREMIUM
TIMES can authoritatively report today.
Established in 1989 under the Fifth Schedule to the
1999 Constitution, as Nigeria’s foremost anti-
corruption agency, the bureau’s mandate is to
maintain a high standard of morality in the conduct
of government business.
It is also mandated to ensure the actions and
behaviour of public officers conform with the
highest standard of public morality.
“The Code of Conduct Bureau has the primary
responsibility of checking corrupt practices in the
Nigerian public service and has been doing so since
1989,” the organisation said on its website.
The abandoned headquarters complex, located on
Plot 816 in the Abuja Central Business District, near
Labour House, was awarded in 2010 to Brunnel
Engineering Limited for N3.5billion.
The award was contained in a letter with reference
number CCB/HQ/CORR/200/14 and dated September 7,
2010.
The letter was signed by the Bureau’s Assistant
Director, Procurement, N. Hussaini, on behalf of the
bureau’s Chairman, Sam Saba.
Not long after the contract was signed, the bureau
released 15 percent of the contract sum as
mobilization to Messrs. Brunnel Limited and the
company moved to site.