Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the Executive Governor of Kwara State has threatened that heads may roll in the State Universal Basic Education Board,(SUBEB), following the discovery of unlawful salary payments to 48 disengaged sunset teachers for March 2021.
Gov. Abdulrazaq on receiving the report of a three-man committee that probed the board, with the revelation that some of the teachers disengaged in December 2020 were paid in March 2021, warned that appropriate actions will be taken against anyone found guilty in the theft.
He reiterated that the payroll of the state government was very important for the government, stating that a situation where people will upload names that are not supposed to be on the payroll will not be tolerated by the state government.
The Governor explained that he set up the committee to look into the matter, to fish out the culprits and recommend solutions to it.
” Let me appreciate your work. It is straight, fast and voluminous, government will look into it and take appropriate actions”, he added.
Barrister Saka Razaq, the Chairman of the three-man committee, explained how the committee was able to uncover the crime,
“We invited all the departments involved, their heads and members. “We asked them to put their defence in writing and we invited them for oral cross-examination and presentation”, he said.
Razaq moreover stated that during the cross-examination, the committee examined them based on the documents submitted.
” We even engaged forensic experts to detect some things.
“We have now come up with our findings and recommendations,” he stated.
The Chairman disclosed that the committee’s report confirmed the unlawful inclusion of 48 names of sunset teachers into the March 2021 payroll and recommend that queries be issued to some officers involved in the preparation of the payroll, a rearrange of the state office of Accountant General and refund of the amount involved by the consultant that paid the money.
