A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has narrated to a Kwara state high court how the Kwara state government...
A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has told a state high court how the Kwara government under Abdulfatah Ahmed, former governor of the state, misappropriated over N5 billion education funds.
Led in evidence by Rotimi Jacobs, counsel to the EFCC, Hassan told the court that the Kwara state government allegedly misappropriated about N5 billion meant to execute projects at primary and junior secondary schools between 2013 and 2015 when Ahmed was governor. Stating the procedures for obtaining grants from the commission, the witness said: “UBEC law provides that the chairman of the state Universal Basic Education Board, its executive secretary, and the director of finance are signatories to matching grants accounts. The matching grants account is opened with any commercial bank or the Central Bank of Nigeria.”
“Implementation of the 2013 action plan had already commenced; contractors were already being mobilised to work at the site, but surprisingly, during our project monitoring exercise, we discovered that the monies meant for the project had been diverted by the Kwara SUBEB. We discovered that about N2 billion was diverted.”Hassan said the report of the projects’ monitoring committee was sent to the Kwara SUBEB, asking the board to comply with the recommendations.
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