{"id":49022,"date":"2016-05-05T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49022"},"modified":"2016-05-06T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T07:31:35","slug":"former-gov-yuguda-perm-secretary-stole-n700million-committee-wants-fund-refunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/former-gov-yuguda-perm-secretary-stole-n700million-committee-wants-fund-refunded\/","title":{"rendered":"How Former Gov Yuguda, Perm Secretary Stole N700million&#8230;Committee Wants Fund Refunded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and his former Permanent<br \/>\nSecretary, Special Services, Abdu Ilelah, among others, should be made to<br \/>\nrefund various sums of money said to have been spent on security and other<br \/>\nmatters for which relevant certification are not available, an<br \/>\ninvestigative committee set up by the new government said <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1036160670\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday<\/span><\/span> in a<br \/>\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p>The committee said the two are to refund N716, 892, 500, being the amount<br \/>\nclaimed to have been spent on security in which all relevant certification<br \/>\nand acknowledgements are not available, while the former Bauchi State<br \/>\nAccountant General, Adamu Gokaru; a former Auditor General, Abdu Aliyu,<br \/>\nand a former permanent secretary, Special Duties, Abdu Ilelah, should be<br \/>\nsanctioned for gross misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>These were the recommendation of the committee on the recovery of public<br \/>\nproperty taken without following due process under the chairmanship of<br \/>\nAhmed Gamawa.<br \/>\nThe committee was set up by Governor Mohammed Abdullahi to investigate the<br \/>\nactivities of Bauchi State Agency for Orphans and Vulnerable Children,<br \/>\nBASOVCA, State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Micro, Small and<br \/>\nMedium Enterprises and the State Ministry for Local Government and<br \/>\nChieftaincy Affairs from May 2007 and May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to the chairman, the committee discovered that due process was<br \/>\nnot followed in the award of contracts at the State Universal Basic<br \/>\nEducation Board where the sum of N110, 126, 373. 64 was released for the<br \/>\npayment of October, 2015 teachers\u2019 salaries and the Board utilised only<br \/>\nthe sum of N109, 351, 476.71 in paying 3,216 newly recruited teachers but<br \/>\ncould not account for the balance of N774, 897.47.<\/p>\n<p>The committee alleged that N858 million loan was fraudulently taken by<br \/>\nSUBEB from Sterling Bank Nigeria Plc to fund projects already<br \/>\ncounter-funded by the State Government in 2012 while the contractor that<br \/>\nhandled the contract of the E-Library project awarded by the SUBEB in the<br \/>\nInstitute of Education, who was the Commissioner for Education, Aminu<br \/>\nKangere had not executed the project fully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contractor failed to supply and install the Integrated Science<br \/>\nLaboratory equipment for which he was paid the sum of N4million at the<br \/>\nsame Institute,\u201d the chairman said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also recommended that the Chief Accountant Local Education<br \/>\nAuthority Accounts at the Board, Mohammad Alhaji, be made to account for<br \/>\nN774, 897, 47 being balance of N110, 126, 373.64 released to the Board for<br \/>\nthe payment of October, 2015 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also recommended that the sum of $475, 000 US Dollars (over<br \/>\none hundred million Naira) be recovered from Global Mega Education and<br \/>\nAnnabel Consultants being unjustified mortgage commitments in California<br \/>\nUSA paid by the State Government, while EXTACO ALUMINIUM Nigeria Ltd was<br \/>\nreceived N20.4million as advance payment for the installation of Terrazo<br \/>\nin 29 blocks of 3 Classrooms, an Office and a store, but the contractor<br \/>\npaid the \u201csum of N15 million into the account of RAPS Reliable Ventures; a<br \/>\ncompany owned by Engineer Ibrahim M. Danfulani, the Chief Engineer of<br \/>\nSUBEB out of the said amount as bribe\u201d.<br \/>\nOther findings of the committee include the payment of NATA\/Supervision<br \/>\nallowances to tune the tune of N132, 361, 698.65 which were not retired by<br \/>\nthe beneficiaries, the committee therefore recommended that the<br \/>\nbeneficiaries of NATA\/Supervision allowances of N132, 361,698.65 should<br \/>\nalso be made to account for the money indicated against their names in the<br \/>\nreport respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ministry for Local government and Chieftaincy Affairs, the<br \/>\ncommittee revealed that the Ministry received the sum of N348,<br \/>\n571,141,755.78 as revenue from the Federation Account from April 2007 to<br \/>\nMay, 2015 and expended only N272, 743,173,889.86 but lamented that the<br \/>\nMinistry could \u201cnot account for the balance of N75, 827, 949, 721.92 just<br \/>\nas the Ministry could not account for the sum of N6, 193, 659, 776.32 it<br \/>\nreceived between 2012 and 2014 in respect of SUREP.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Ministry according to the committee, purchased, on behalf<br \/>\nof the 20 LGA\u2019s 277,134,152 Unit of Shares in Intercellular Nigeria Plc,<br \/>\ncumulative Shares worth 885,514,081.08 in Nigerian Sovereign Investment<br \/>\nAuthority, N44, 000,000.00 worth of Shares in African independent<br \/>\nTelevision (AIT) and 10, 814.22 units of shares at Niger Delta Power<br \/>\nHolding Company Limited but failed to provide relevant documents including<br \/>\nevidence of accrued dividend.<\/p>\n<p>The committee said a former Commissioner of the Ministry, Talatu Barwa,<br \/>\nsecured the approval of the former Governor for the sum of N2, 191, 248,<br \/>\n744.71 to provide infrastructural facilities in Health, Education and<br \/>\nSecurity across the 20 Local Government Areas in the State which was not<br \/>\nimplemented.<\/p>\n<p>The committee recommended that constitution of a Committee comprising of<br \/>\nprofessionals to reconcile the accounts (JAAC, Sure-P &amp; Projects Accounts)<br \/>\nof the Ministry for Local Government Affairs in order to ensure<br \/>\naccountability and transparency, while the former Commissioner in the<br \/>\nMinistry, Hajiya Talatu Mohammed Barwa, be made to account for the sum of<br \/>\nN2, 191, 248, 744.71 being amount released for the provision of<br \/>\ninfrastructural facilities in the 20 Local Government Areas which was not<br \/>\nimplemented.<\/p>\n<p>The committee observed that the Central Bank of Nigeria released a loan of<br \/>\nN2 billion to Bauchi State Government through the Agency for Sustainable<br \/>\nMicrofinance for disbursement to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in<br \/>\nthe State, but the past administration disbursed only 500 million to the<br \/>\nbeneficiaries and fraudulently diverted N1.5 Billion to purportedly<br \/>\nfinance security needs between February and April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, details of such expenditure were not made available, it said.<br \/>\nAnother important area where revelations were made is the Bauchi State<br \/>\nAgency for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, BASOVCA, where the sum of<br \/>\nN785, 486, 085.95 was received and expended as at 31st August, 2015, but<br \/>\nsimilarly without necessary supporting documents attached to the payment<br \/>\nvouchers presented to the Committee involving huge sum of money that were<br \/>\nwithdrawn in cash from the Banks for purchases.<\/p>\n<p>The committee recommended that all the questionable expenditures amounting<br \/>\nto N488, 554, 172.00 be refunded to the Government by the affected<br \/>\npersons.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the report, Governor Abubakar who lamented the colossal amount<br \/>\nsaid to have been spent on security while the State was never at war,<br \/>\npromised to give all those indicted by the committee the opportunity to<br \/>\nclear their names because of his belief in the rule of law. He assured<br \/>\nthat due process will be followed to recover all resources illegally taken<br \/>\nfrom government.<\/p>\n<p>The report will be tabled before the state executive council after which a<br \/>\nwhite paper will be issued enunciating government\u2019s position on it.<\/p>\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>Former Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and his former Permanent Secretary, Special Services, Abdu Ilelah, among others, should be made to refund various sums of money said to have&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":49026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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