{"id":77960,"date":"2021-01-27T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=77960"},"modified":"2021-01-27T02:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T01:13:00","slug":"kwara-bursary-scam-n100million-shared-without-list-of-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/kwara-bursary-scam-n100million-shared-without-list-of-beneficiaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Bursary Scam: N100million Shared Without List of Beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trial in the alleged mismanagement of scholarship funds to the tune of<\/div>\n
\n
\n

N100million involving the immediate past chairperson of Kwara State
\nScholarship Board, Hajia Fatimoh Yusuf and two other principal officers
\nof the Board resumed on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 with a prosecution
\nwitness, Lawal Abdulwahab, telling Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara
\nState High Court sitting in Ilorin that, he never saw the list of the
\nbeneficiaries of the 2018 bursary allowances.<\/p>\n

The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
\nEFCC, is prosecuting Hajia Yusuf, alongside the Executive Secretary of
\nthe Board, Fatai Lamidi and its Accountant, Ajewole Stephen, on a seven
\ncount charge bordering on stealing and fraudulent diversion of public
\nfunds.<\/p>\n

The three officers of the Board allegedly diverted state funds to the
\ntune of N100million earmarked by government of the Kwara State in 2017
\nand 2018 for payment of bursary allowances to students of the state in
\nvarious tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n

Testifying, Abdulwahab stated that his bank was commissioned to be in
\ncharge of payment of the allowances to respective beneficiaries of the
\nscheme, but was never provided with the list.<\/p>\n

Abdulwahab, who was the Head of Operations in a new generation bank
\ntestified as PW 8.<\/p>\n

He said: “My Lord, sometime in 2018, the management of the Scholarship
\nBoard approached our bank for cheque discounting in the payment of
\nbursary allowances to students of Kwara origin studying in various
\ntertiary institutions. The bank managing director and I held a meeting
\nwith the management of Scholarship Board where we agreed to charge the
\nsum of N100 (one hundred naira) from each of the cheque as interest. We
\nwere to pay cash of N5, 000 (five thousand naira only) to ten thousand
\nStudents.<\/p>\n

The PW8 told the court that officials of the bank followed personnel of
\nthe Board to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH,
\nOgbomoso, but had what he described as ‘terrible experience’.<\/p>\n

According to him, the place was rowdy and insecure. Abdulwahab stated
\nthat a report of what happened was forwarded to the bank following which
\nthe bank threatened to back out, a decision he said led to another
\narrangement of providing cash without the officials of the bank
\nfollowing them to field.<\/p>\n

Testifying further, the witness narrated how the bank provided cash of
\nN5, 000 to ten thousand students and how the Scholarship Board’s
\nmanagement issued them cheque in return. He told the court that the
\ncheques were not forged.<\/p>\n

Under cross-examination, Abdulwahab insisted that he neither sighted the
\nlist of beneficiaries at the Office of the Kwara State Scholarship Board
\nnor at the EFCC where he was invited to give statement on the matter.<\/p>\n

The witness stated that all that transpired between his bank and the
\nmanagement of the Kwara State Scholarship Board were normal banking
\nstandards, which followed the due process.<\/p>\n

The prosecution witness further stressed the fact that his bank’s cash
\nofficials no longer followed personnel of the Scholarship Board to the
\nfield after that experience at LAUTECH, for security reasons.<\/p>\n

After his testimonies, Justice Oyinloye discharged the witness and
\nadjourned till February 17, 2021 for further hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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