Secrets Reporters
N1,323,520,000 left the Nigeria Police Force on a single day, 12 August 2025, paid to Blue Sea Investment Limited as the emergency cost of 1,450 NATO type ST-4 helmets and 1,400 armoured vests. Searches by SecretsReporters at the Corporate Affairs Commission found no record of any company under the name the Force paid. The payment sits inside the official payment records of 2025, the last full calendar year Kayode Egbetokun served as Inspector-General of Police before his resignation on 24 February 2026, and it was not the year’s only landmark voucher. In the same year, the Force completed payment of N8,602,827,299.66 to Gallero Global Resources for one Bell 407 helicopter, paid a second N2,522,404,229.47 to Ontrac Technologies Limited to activate a surveillance system it had already paid to activate once, and released N2,600,171,162.79 as an additional part payment for 59 armed Hilux gun-trucks.
N1.32 billion paid under a name the register does not carry
The Blue Sea payment was made on voucher 1001307928 of 12 August 2025 and described in the records as the emergency cost of procurement of the helmets and vests. The same voucher carried the tax lines that accompany a formal contract payment: N70,400,000 representing 5 percent withholding tax and N14,080,000 representing 1 percent stamp duty, both remitted to the Federal Inland Revenue Service in Blue Sea Investment Limited’s name. The records therefore treated the beneficiary as a contracting company in every respect except the one that comes first. Under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, a company carries on business in Nigeria as a registered legal person, and SecretsReporters found no record on the Corporate Affairs Commission under the name Blue Sea Investment Limited, the name on the voucher. The nearest name the register carries, Blue Sea Investments Limited, RC 273945, registered on 14 June 1995, is a different name from the company the Force paid, and no record connects the two. Section 16 of the Public Procurement Act 2007 conditions participation in federal procurement on a bidder’s legal capacity and formal registration, and the Act’s emergency procurement provisions narrow, rather than widen, the class of purchases that may proceed without open competition. An emergency label on the description line did not cure the position in the records: N1,323,520,000 of protective equipment money, for helmets and vests on which officers’ lives depend, was paid out under a name the national company register does not hold.
One helicopter, paid off inside the final full year
On 25 February 2025, Gallero Global Resources collected a second part payment of N4,007,757,532.22 for the purchase of one Bell 407 helicopter for the Nigeria Police. The payment completed net payments of N8,602,827,299.66 to the company, begun with a part payment of N4,595,069,767.44 on 31 December 2024. Gallero Global Resources, RC 1307495, registered on 30 December 2015 and active on the register, was paid against a gross contract value of N9,151,943,936, and once the value added tax remitted on the contract is counted, the total public money committed to the single airframe stood at about N9.84 billion. The payment descriptions name the aircraft and nothing else: no spares package, no training and no support arrangement appears in either description. Market comparisons assembled by SecretsReporters place a fully equipped new Bell 407GXi at just under 5 million dollars, with a comparable government law enforcement purchase in the United States in September 2024 at about 5.5 million dollars, so the records do not support a claim that the Force paid double or triple the market price. What the records leave open is narrower and unanswered by any line in them: the variant, year and condition of the airframe delivered, and the equipment that came with it, in a purchase whose final instalment fell in the Inspector-General’s last full year in office.
A surveillance system the Force paid to switch on twice
The same day the helicopter was paid off, 25 February 2025, Ontrac Technologies Limited collected N2,522,404,229.47 for the activation and upgrade of the strategic surveillance system of public safety. It was the second such payment to the company. On 16 December 2023, Ontrac Technologies Limited had received N2,623,255,813.95 as part payment for the emergency activation and upgrade of the same strategic surveillance system. Across the two activations, the Force paid N5,145,660,043.42. Ontrac Technologies Limited, RC 792942, registered on 22 December 2008 and active, was engaged both times outside the open competitive process that Section 16 of the Public Procurement Act 2007 makes the default for federal purchases, the first engagement expressly on an emergency footing. The payment records carry the two activation payments and nothing after them: no line in the records evidences the delivery of the system, its acceptance by the Force, or its operation. N5.15 billion was paid to switch on one system twice, and the records close there.
Gun-trucks, vests, fuel and vehicle repairs
On 20 December 2025, in the closing days of the year, Suchuchase Engineering Limited collected N2,600,171,162.79, described as an additional 30 percent part payment for the supply of 59 armed operational Toyota Hilux vehicles with gun ports. Suchuchase Engineering Limited, RC 356717, registered on 27 May 1999 and active, had therefore drawn a further tranche on a vehicle contract whose earlier tranches predate the year, with the balance still to run beyond it. Protective equipment was bought a second time in the year as well: on 21 March 2025, Octram Integrated Solutions Limited received N1,208,499,670.43 for the procurement of 2,000 bullet-proof vests and 1,300 helmets, seven months before the emergency helmet and vest payment to Blue Sea Investment Limited. The year’s running costs moved through repeat suppliers in steady streams. Emasium Oil and Gas Limited collected N1,710,611,175.88 across 25 fuel payments in 2025. Wysdum Global Integrated Services collected N2,363,706,362.32 across 38 payments, among them N262,325,581.40 paid on 14 October 2025 for the repair and maintenance of 500 Hilux pick-up vehicles and other operational vehicles.
Sugar, beans and spaghetti, bought twice in thirteen days
Peyman Intellectuals Nigeria Limited collected N1,630,788,080.73 across 19 payments in 2025, supplying dry rations to the Force. Two of the payments, thirteen days apart in December, bought the same consignment. On 18 December 2025, the company was paid N170,511,627.91 for the supply of 900 cartons of Saint Louis cube sugar, 930 cartons of canned baked beans, 950 cartons of spaghetti and nine other items. On 31 December 2025, the last day of Egbetokun’s final full year, the company was paid N170,761,119.17 for the supply of 900 cartons of Saint Louis cube sugar, 930 cartons of canned baked beans, 950 cartons of spaghetti and nine other items, described as dry rations to the Mobile Police. The two vouchers total N341,272,747.08 for two consignments the records describe in identical quantities, item for item.
The records of 2025 are the Force’s own. They show a year in which protective gear was bought from a name the company register does not carry, a single helicopter absorbed N8.6 billion in net payments, a surveillance system was paid for twice at activation, and the same grocery consignment was paid for twice in thirteen days, all of it inside the final full year of the Inspector-General under whom every one of the vouchers was raised. The Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 obliges every government agency to conduct its financial affairs in a manner that ensures value for money and the prudent management of public resources. The payment records of 2025 stand as the account the Force kept of its own compliance.
