*AIM Consultants, MD, Amin Moussali to regain eligibility in June
By Oludegun Elijah
WorldStage– AIM Consultants Ltd and its Managing Director, Amin Moussali got back their eligibility in June to participate in projects the World Bank and related institutions finance after 52 months of debarment for corrupt practice.
The World Bank’s Listing of Ineligible Firms and Individuals latest update indicates three other Nigerian companies and individuals will reel out under the global bank’s hammer between June and November.
Those sanctioned have undergone separate months of ineligibility—and rehabilitation—for various violations, including breach of procurement guidelines, fraudulent, collusive, and corrupt practices, and breach of consultants’ guidelines.
Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Ltd, Puriholi Nigeria, and Mayor Ejiro Hasting are others serving out their sanctions this year.
The bank sanctioned no fewer than 56 companies and individuals, including Chinese, Italian, and Indian firms in Nigeria, for those breaches between 2023 and 2025.
Fifty percent of the companies violated procurement guidelines while about 26 percent ran afoul of the African Development Bank’s procurement guidelines, and got cross-debarred on the World Bank’s contractor database.
About12 percent of them got caught in fraudulent, collusive, and corrupt practices. Others breached consultant guidelines, or got involved in corruption.
AIM, which the bank contracted to design and supervise engineering of two projects it financed in Cross River and Enugu last year, offered two project officers N12 million in bribe. And the company’s MD rode along with it.
For that, the company and its director got 38 months of sanction and 14 months of rehabilitation—an opportunity the bank offers indicted managers who cooperate—to regain eligibility.
Eight of the companies and individuals, including Ogon Asu Ltd and its owner William Ogon Tuku, Shereena Agric. Ltd, and Vikram Deepak, among others, got permanent debarment.Four have till March to July next year to serve out their sanctions, two by 2031. More than 80 percent have their debarment ongoing.
