The Secretary of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,\u00a0 EFCC,\u00a0 Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged auctioneers handling the disposal of 244 vehicles forfeited to the Federal Government by illegal oil dealers,\u00a0 to be fair,\u00a0 open and accessible to every interested member of the public.
\nHe gave the charge on Friday,\u00a0 December 20,\u00a0 2019 in Port Harcourt,\u00a0 Rivers State while inspecting all the eleven( 11) bidding slots allocated to shortlisted auctioneers for the exercise.\u00a0 According to him,\u00a0 transparency and equal opportunity of bidding are the hallmarks of every auction and the licensed operators must abide by the rules. “Let everyone interested in any of the vehicles be given access to them. The bidding must be open and free. There must be no hindrance of any kind”,\u00a0 he said.
\nOlukoyede later went round all the bidding boards placed strategically at the open ground of the Police Officers Wives Association,\u00a0 POWA, in the old Government Reservation Area,\u00a0 G.R.A,\u00a0 Port Harcourt where the bidding is holding and inspected vehicles displayed on each board.\u00a0 He cautioned auctioneers against hiding any of the vehicles allocated to them.
\nThe auction exercise commenced yesterday in Port Harcourt,\u00a0 with the unveiling of the eleven shortlisted auctioneers by the EFCC.\u00a0 The vehicles being publicly auctioned were forfeited to the government through the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt,\u00a0 Rivers State.\u00a0 The forfeiture order was granted by Justice I. M Sani on July 5,\u00a0 2019.
\nThe auction of the vehicles is being conducted by the EFCC in conjunction with the Deputy Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court and the Department of Petroleum Resources.
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The Secretary of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,\u00a0 EFCC,\u00a0 Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged auctioneers handling the disposal of 244 vehicles forfeited to the Federal Government by illegal oil dealers,\u00a0 to be fair,\u00a0 open and accessible to every interested member of the public. He gave the charge on Friday,\u00a0 December 20,\u00a0 2019 in Port Harcourt,\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[556,164,557],"class_list":["post-23305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","tag-auction","tag-efcc","tag-open-bidding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}