By Secrets Reporters
On 11 May 2026, the National Productivity Centre posted 107 payments in a single day, discharging N7,265,468,180.37. Buried inside that one-day run were two payments for second-hand cars. Parker-Knoll Ltd received N122,896,054.47 as 30 per cent mobilisation for Lot GS261, the supply and distributions of used cars in Rano/Bunkure/Kibiya Federal Constituency, Kano State. Helpdesk Services Limited received N123,067,404.51 as 30 per cent mobilisation for Lot GS255, the same supply and distributions of used cars in the same constituency.
The two mobilisations total N245,963,458.98. At the 30 per cent rate stated in the records, the two lots carry job sums of N409,653,514.90 and N410,224,681.70, which is N819,878,196.60 of contracts for used cars in one constituency. No balance or completion payment on either lot appears anywhere in the agency's payment records to 16 June 2026.
Rano/Bunkure/Kibiya is represented in the House of Representatives by Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, and it is one of the most favoured constituencies in the tenure of the Centre's Director-General, Dr Baffa Babba Dan'agundi, a Kano politician who took over the agency on 18 July 2024. Eight payments in the tenure carry the constituency's name, and they total N1,536,102,255.80. On 9 September 2025, Cratrex Construction Ltd received N255,531,110.72 at 100 per cent of the job sum for classroom blocks in the constituency. On 10 September 2025, Lion Way Ventures Nig Ltd received N412,153,316.14 at 100 per cent of the job sum for solar street lights there. On 13 September 2025, Hasbee Integrated Services Ltd received N290,994,754.05 at 100 per cent of the job sum for the supply of 50kg bags of rice. On 13 December 2025, Anbez Innovations Limited received N193,904,899.65 at 100 per cent of the job sum for food items. On 11 May 2026, the same day as the used cars, I.A.C. Communications Ltd received N119,082,858.02 as mobilisation for more street lights in the constituency, and Lionway Group of Companies Limited received N18,471,858.24 as mobilisation for laptop computers there.
The Corporate Affairs Commission lists Parker-Knoll Ltd, RC 892358, registered on 10 June 2010, with an inactive status. The company that collected N122,896,054.47 of mobilisation for the used cars was not in good standing on the register when it was paid. Helpdesk Services Limited is registered, RC 891732, incorporated on 7 June 2010, with an active status. Hasbee Integrated Services Ltd, which collected the N290,994,754.05 rice payment at 100 per cent, is registered, RC 1763957, incorporated on 28 February 2021, and the Commission lists its status as inactive. Section 16 of the Public Procurement Act 2007 makes registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission, and compliance with the obligations that go with it, part of the conditions a company must meet to qualify for federal contracts. The other constituency contractors are registered and active: Cratrex Construction Ltd, RC 1452858, incorporated on 13 November 2017; Lion Way Ventures Limited, RC 379764, incorporated on 2 May 2000; Anbez Innovations Ltd, RC 487859, incorporated on 6 August 2003; and I.A.C. Communications Limited, RC 615420, incorporated on 27 January 2005.
The two used-car companies are repeat beneficiaries of the tenure. On 12 December 2025, Parker-Knoll Ltd received N146,973,726.80 as the 70 per cent balance of a skills acquisition training lot in Yewa South, Ogun State, taking its receipts in the tenure to N269,869,781.27. The same day, Helpdesk Services Limited received N183,713,330.40 as the 70 per cent balance of a vocational skills lot covering Ajegunle, Yewa North and Igbesa, taking its tenure receipts to N306,780,734.91.
The National Productivity Centre's statutory work is productivity research, advocacy, training and awards. Its payment records under Dan'agundi show it buying roads, street lights, rice and used cars for named constituencies, and on 11 May 2026 they show N245,963,458.98 of mobilisation for second-hand cars in the constituency of the Director-General's Kano ally, paid to two companies in a single day, one of them inactive on the Corporate Affairs Commission register.
