This came after the plenary on Wednesday adopted a proposal put out by Kinsley Chinda, Mansur Manu Soro, and three other people.

The senators claimed in the motion that NIMASA engaged in unethical and corrupt practices, including the inflated and fictitious contract awards, fraudulent forex transactions, uneven director placement, and  other unwholesome and corrupt practices.

The motion states, “There have been several allegations of questionable, inflated and fictitious contract awards, particularly for non-operational speed boats, security surveillance contracts and Deep Blue Water contract, revenue leakages and the award of contracts to cronies of the director general and other top management staff of the agency.

“The agency is alleged to have entered into a very dubious contract with a firm known as XPO Marine Limited’ for the lease of six speed boats, each at the rate of $173,930.00 monthly, without a Need Assessment for such facility being carried out by the relevant departments of the agency, the said XPO Marine Limited had earlier been indicted for defrauding the agency to the tune of $80,000 in revenue.

“The security surveillance contract called Deep Blue Water Contract’ is suspected to be a conduit by the management of the agency to pilfer funds. A security contract tagged National Integrated Surveillance and Waterways Protection’ is also said to have been awarded to an Israeli firm, HSLI Systems and Technologies Limited at the cost of $195,300,000.00, despite an existing facility, which is a simple internet subscription via Lloyds Intelligence Platform for such operations”.

The motion was approved by the House, and it was decided to form an ad hoc committee to look into the claims and submit a report within three months for additional legislative action.