Ministry’s audit reports indict Wik
February 26, 2015
Written by Bisi Olaniyi, Port Harcourt

An internal audit reports of the Federal Ministry of Education have indicted Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governoship candidate, Nyesom Wike.

 The audit reports were for 2013 and 2014, when the Rivers PDP’s standard bearer was in charge at the Federal Ministry of Education.

 Following the 2011 general elections, Wike was made the Minister of State for Education and was later elevated as the Supervising Minister of Education. But with the 2014 appointment of Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau as the substantive ministe, Wike reverted to his former position.

He resigned last year to seek nomination of the PDP to succeed Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

Wike, a former Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt and a two-term Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State,  denied the issues raised in the audit reports.

 The PDP candidate, who spoke through the Chairman of Media and Publicity Committee of his campaign organisation, Emma Okah, said: “The issues raised in the purported audit reports are false, unfounded and a figment of the imagination of the originators.”

The auditors expressed shock that after resigning as minister, late last year, Wike refused to hand over five official vehicles of the Federal Ministry of Education.

 The audit report noted: “Recently, representatives of the ministry were sent to the former Minister of State for Education (Wike) to recover the five official vehicles with him, as is the normal procedure, but he blatantly refused handing over the vehicles.

 “It was later discovered that he had already offered one of the vehicles, a Toyota Landcruiser  Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) to the Rivers State Chairman of the PDP (Chief Felix Obuah). The vehicles he is yet to hand over are: two Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep, a Toyota Prado jeep, a Toyota Lexus jeep and a Toyota Pickup (Hilux).”

 The 2013 revelation by the auditors involved N2.9 billion, consisting of N2.4 billion for the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs’) intervention projects in schools in the six geo-political zones and N500 million for monitoring of the MDGs’ projects.

 The audit report on the MDGs’ projects in schools stated: “None of these projects was fully executed. This is in direct contradiction of extant financial regulations. Payments were made for the projects, even as none was executed. Payments made were totally devoid of the following procedures, which are mandatory for any government payment to contractors: minute of ministerial tenders’ board committee and completion certificate…”


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pls were is the trash can cos that is were this trash belong.

if there is an internal auditor in the federal ministry of education and such a huge amount is misappropriated then he or she should be arrested and investigated.

a true accounting system has both pre transaction and post transaction audit.

at what point did the fraud take place. who disbursed the said money and what documents were presented to the person before the monies were released. if the internal audit or internal control as they are called in some offices whet to sleep or connived with some persons to misappropriate fund only to start writing rubbish now then they should be arrested and tried in court.

internal audit is not meant to only check an executed transaction but to also check the details of a transaction before they are executed.

they should be arrested for negligence of professional duty if this report is true