The storage and distribution of fuel at the National Drainage and Irrigation Agency (NDIA) was characterized by mismanagement and fraud, practices so corrupt that the Minister of Agriculture should not have continued to have confidence in management, according to the report of a forensic audit.
According to the audit of the operations of NDIA over the period November 1, 2011 to May 31, 2015 “the unreliability and inaccuracies within the Fuel Inventory System [were] obvious and promote fraud.”
The audit conducted by Nigel Hinds Financial Services stated that fuel values were manipulated and the Head of Administration and Human Resources—to whom the Fuel Controller and his staff submitted monthly reports—claimed he lacked the