CAH floats consultancy to boost IGR – Director

Petitioners has alleged that a consultancy firm was involved in a N500 million contract scam, spurring the Managing Director of the company, Alh. Aliyasu Manu, to respond saying, the firm was established to boost the IGR of an Agricultural College.

The College known as Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, located in the community of Vom, in Plateau State Jos South, has suffered financial set back leading to infrastructural deficit, hence the establishment of a firm to help upgrade the institution, Manu said.

In a response to the Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Abuja, dated 13th March 2020, Manu disparaged the faceless petitioners, debunking their claims that the company was involved in a deal leading to N500 million scam.

Our correspondent who sighted the letter to the Minister on Thursday, reports that the petitioners would have been sponsored by detractors who do not understand the gains occasioned by the firm to ameliorate the deficit infrastructural decay of the institution.

The firm, CAH Consultancy LTD, was also claimed by the accusers, to belong to a former Provost of the institution, Prof. Garba Sharubutu, an assertion, Mr. Manu said was ill conceived.

According to him: “CAH consultancy LTD is a company floated by the federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology Vom and is the sole proprietor of the company. The aim of floating this company was to improve on the college’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). 

“All the company signatories are senior management staff of the Federal College Of Animal Health and Production Technology Vom, nominated by the college to serve in their respective capacities. This is evident by relevant portion of the memorandum of agreement.

“During the period the said former Director, Garba Sharubutu, was provost of the college and from the inception of the company on the 29th day of December 2015, he was by virtue of his position as provost of the college, a director of the company. But since his tenure elapsed on the 14th day of February 2019, he ceased to be part of anything to do with CAH Consultancy”, Manu said.