World Bank debars two waste management companies and their owner for fraud
The World Bank Wednesday debarred two Nigerian waste management companies and their owner for five years for “engaging in fraudulent practices” involving a project in Nigeria.
The two companies,
Rojoke CNE Services Ltd. (Rojoke)
CNE Environmental & Waste Services Ltd.
and their owner, Robinson Ekenedilichukwu Ojoko, are ineligible to participate in World Bank-financed projects during the debarment.
Ojoko, on behalf of his companies, admitted to participating in “underlying sanctionable practices,” the World Bank said.
The $200 million World Bank-financed project was designed to bring jobs and better public budgeting in the states of Bayelsa, Edo, Delta, and Rivers in Nigeria.
Ojoko was an employee of the Delta state government agency in charge of implementing the project when Rojoke and CNE bid for two waste collection contracts under the project.
The activity of Ojoko and the two companies was a “fraudulent practice” under World Bank procurement guidelines.
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