{"id":102251,"date":"2022-12-31T14:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102251"},"modified":"2022-12-31T14:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T13:42:35","slug":"gov-adeleke-suspends-2-top-osun-officials-over-alleged-contract-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/gov-adeleke-suspends-2-top-osun-officials-over-alleged-contract-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Adeleke suspends 2 top Osun officials over alleged contract scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1753736106812876405\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has approved the immediate suspension of Dr. Niyi Oginni, Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OHIS), and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Adeleke also directed the Public Procurement Agency and other relevant government agencies to immediately kick-off the process of recovering all outstanding tender fees on contract awards, JVAs, MoU etc., to which the State Government is a party, in the last four years.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Osun helmsman further announced an holistic investigation of the Public Procurement Agency (Due Process Office) to determine the extent of its culpability in the non-remittance of tender fees to the state treasury and contract manipulation in the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Gov. Adeleke\u2019s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, which was made available to Pointblanknews.com said the \u201csuspension of the two Chief Executive Officers was sequel to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU chaired by Hon Niyi Owolade which indicted the two agency chiefs of gross abuse of office, mismanagement of public resources and serial violations of agency and public service regulations and laws.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe statement further said: \u201cThe Committee in its recommendation had unearthed the unethical practices of the suspended heads of the OSHIA and the Primary Health Care Board as manifested\u00a0 in contract awards without due process, non-remittance of actual tender fees collected from contractors, contracts without value for money like the PHCs, deliberate splitting of\u00a0 contracts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee further found out that the suspended OHIS boss gave contracts to the tune of several millions of Naira to his own biological daughter and his own private Hospital in the Agency he is heading, while the Acting Career Head in the Primary Health Care lied on oath when she falsely denied knowledge of all contracts of infrastructures and supplies in the PHCs, resorting to bulk-passing and blame trading.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has approved the immediate suspension of Dr. Niyi Oginni, Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OHIS), and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, Head of the Primary&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov. 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