EX-Governor Isa Yuguda To Refund Over N700m Spent On Security Vote - Investigation Committee

Statement released by Abubakar al-Sadique, Press Secretary to Bauchi State Governor, Barrister Mohammed Abubakar on Wednesday, May 4, 2016:

"Former Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and his former Permanent Secretary, Special Services Alhaji Abdu Ilelah, among others, are to refund various sums of money said to have been spent on security and other matters for which relevant certification are not available.

The two are to refund sum of N716, 892, 500 being the amount claimed to have been spent on security in which all relevant certification and acknowledgements are not available while the former Bauchi State Accountant General under Malam Isa Yuguda Alhaji Adamu Umar Gokaru, former Auditor General; Alhaji Abdu Usman Aliyu and former permanent secretary, Special Duties, Abdu Aliyu Ilelah should be sanctioned for gross misconduct.

These were the recommendation of the committee on the recovery of public property taken without following due process under the chairmanship of retired Air Commando Ahmed Tijjani Baba Gamawa. The committee was set up by Governor Mohammed Abdullahi to investigate the activities of Bauchi State Agency for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, BASOVCA, State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and the State Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs from May 2007 and May 2015.

 

According to the chairman, the committee discovered that due process was not followed in the award of contracts at the State Universal Basic Education Board where a N110, 126, 373. 64 was released for the payment of October, 2015 teachers’ salaries and the Board utilised only the sum of N109, 351, 476.71 in paying 3,216 newly recruited teachers but could not account for the balance of N774, 897.47. 

 

The committee alleged that N858m loan was fraudulently taken by SUBEB from Sterling Bank Nigeria Plc to fund projects already counter-funded by the State Government in 2012 while the contractor that handled the contract of the E-Library project awarded by the SUBEB in the Institute of Education, who was the Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Aminu Mohammed Ibrahim, Kangere had not executed the project fully. “The contractor failed to supply and install the Integrated Science Laboratory equipment for which he was paid the sum of N4million at the same Institute”, the chairman said. 

 

“The accrued interest of N79million from the fixed deposit account in Sterling Bank Nigeria Plc should be jointly refunded to the State Government by the former Chairman of SUBEB, Alhaji Abdullahi Dabo and the former Chief Accountant of the Board, Alhaji Kabiru Malami Sidi” while all signatories of SUBEB accounts be made to refund the “illegal loan collected from Sterling Bank PLC as well as the associated charges amounting to N933, 604, 619.57”, the committee also recommended. 

 

The committee also recommended that the Chief Accountant Local Education Authority Accounts at the Board, Alhaji Mohammad Alhaji should be made to account for N774, 897, 47 being balance of N110, 126, 373.64 released to the Board for the payment of October, 2015 salaries.

The committee recommended that the sum of $475, 000 US Dollars (over one hundred million Naira) be recovered from Global Mega Education and Annabel Consultants being unjustified mortgage commitments in California USA paid by the State Government, while EXTACO ALUMINIUM Nigeria Ltd was received N20.4million as advance payment for the installation of Terrazo in 29 blocks of 3 Classrooms, an Office and a store, but the contractor paid the “sum of N15 million into the account of RAPS Reliable Ventures; a company owned by Engineer Ibrahim M. Danfulani, the Chief Engineer of SUBEB out of the said amount as bribe”.

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