N65 Million for One Vehicle and N34.58 Million to an Inactive Firm Plus Double Diesel Payments in Innocent Barikor’s National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency

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Beyond the N339.82 million constituency contracts paid by the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) under Dr. Innocent Bariate Bariko, he spent spent another N182,745,263.58 in 2025. A SecretsReporters investigation can reveal that this second layer of spending included N65,092,209.30 for a single ‘operational vehicle’, N34,582,765.81 to a company the CAC lists as inactive, and two identical diesel payments of N6,496,988.83.

N65.09 million for one operational vehicle

On 21 August 2025, Foxcom Stackia Limited was paid N65,092,209.30 for the ‘purchase of operational vehicle’ by an agency whose total non-constituency procurement for the year barely exceeded N180 million.

N34.58 million to an inactive firm and double diesel

On the same 21 August, Highsky Procurement Ltd collected N34,582,765.81 for ‘procurement of laboratory equipment to the agency’ but CAC checks by SecretsReporters show Highsky Procurement Ltd (RC 854270, registered November 2009) is officially inactive which is in breach of the Financial Regulations’ requirement that contractors hold valid CAC credentials. Then the diesel awarded to HCC Energy Ltd and paid N6,496,988.83 on 31 July 2025 and the identical N6,496,988.83 on 15 October 2025, for diesel supplies weeks apart which shows a duplicate-payment pattern the Financial Regulations require vote controllers to catch.

CAC checks show HCC Energy Ltd was registered on 18 April 2023, barely two years before these payments thus tripping the three-year due-diligence flag.

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