The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will reportedly grill former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin over a petition it received on allegations of fraudulent award of contracts worth N418m.

According to reports, Jibrin was earlier quizzed on Tuesday by the EFCC over allegations of N17bn money laundering.

The petition which was written by the Anti-corruption Unit of the National Youth Council of Nigeria was dated July 26, 2016.

According to Punch, an EFCC official said, “Our operatives will before the end of the week, invite him to answer questions relating to the fresh petition.”

The petition alleged that in September 2014, the National Commission For Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons awarded 10 contracts to five companies in the combined sum of N418m in one day, without clear details.

It stated that the names of the contracts recipients were not given, merely directing the firms to make “supplies to Kano.”

However, in each of the contract document, the agency copied Jibrin, who was at the time the Chairman, House Committee on Finance.

Part of the petition read, “All contacts were awarded in one day; all the contracts were awarded to Kano State.

“All the contract award letters were copied to Jibrin; three of the companies are located in the same EFAB Mall, Area 11, Abuja.

“Two of the companies, which got four of the contracts, used the same office address, Suite A47, EFAB Mall, Area 11, Abuja.”

The council called on the commission to probe the contracts as only Jibrin’s name was copied in all documents.

It added, “The unit cost of the supplies in the 10 contracts is outrageous.

“Efforts to trace evidence of completion of the contracts have proved abortive.

“The description of the companies is ambiguous, as they were all supplies to Kano State, without any specification to whom or what purpose the supplies would be deployed.”