Members of the House of Representatives have frowned over the sale of 82 vehicles for the sum of 5.8 million naira over the past 12 years by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).

This was as the NIMASA Executive Director, Chudi Offodile announced the sale during the resumed investigative hearing into the ‘Disposal of public property by the Agencies between 2010 and 2022 to unravel the extent of illegal auctioning of public property, non-remittance of revenue realized into Consolidated Revenue Fund’, chaired by Honourable Julius Ihonbvere.

According to Offodile, the sale followed due process.

However,   the chairman of the committee, Ihonbvere revealed that the Ad-hoc Committee was in custody of petitions against NIMASA that the vehicles were sold to some officials and staff of the Agency, maintained that the Auctioneers engaged by NIMASA were merely hired to rubber stamp the fictitious insider trading.