By Dele Moses, Ilorin
Kwara State Government has suspended the Permanent Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Bayo Onimago, and four other senior officials for being implicated in the ongoing investigation of ghost workers and suspicious deductions of workers’ salary at the board.
The other officials are the board’s Director of Finance and Supply, Husseni Ahmed, account officers, Mujeeb Ibrahim and Oyerinde Fatai, and a staffer of the Teaching Service Commission who doubled as the Chairman of the state Nigerian Union of Teachers, Toyin Saliu.
The Commissioner for Communication, Murtala Olanrewaju, said in a statement that the suspension was in line with efforts of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to rid the board of corruption.
“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,” the statement reads.
