They
were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which has,
for some-time, been investigating the ghost worker fraud in the state.
Kwara
State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Permanent Secretary, Bayo
Onimago, and four other senior officials implicated in the ongoing
investigation of ghost workers, have been arrested.
Onimago
and his accomplices were also suspected to have been making illegal deductions
from workers’ salary at the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board
(SUBEB).
Following
this, the state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has suspended all the
officers involved in the scam.
The
suspension was announced on Tuesday in Ilorin in a statement issued by Alhaji
Murtala Olanrewaju, the state Commissioner for Communication.
According
to him, the officials are the permanent secretary of the parastatal, Mr Bayo
Onimago; Director of Finance and Supply of SUBEB, Mr Husseni Ahmed.
Others
were account officers Mujeeb Ibrahim and Oyerinde Fatai; and a staff of the
Teaching Service Commission who doubled as the state Chairman of the Nigerian
Union of Teachers (NUT), Toyin Saliu.
“The
indefinite suspension is connected to some discoveries of alleged fraud in the
parastatal by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
“This
is in line with the efforts of the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq administration to
cleanse the system, particularly at SUBEB where some startling discoveries have
been made.
“Salaries
connected to the controversial names on the payroll have been flagged and
suspended until the end of the exercise,” Olanrewaju said.
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