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The Justice Elizabeth Kpojime Commission of Enquiry, which resumed sitting at the Makurdi High Court IV, yesterday heard that the Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs paid N18.7 billion, which was meant for primary school teachers’ salaries, into an unknown account at a major bank in Makurdi, the state capital.
Testifying before the panel, the bureau’s Permanent Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Ikpe, could not give a satisfactory explanation on the owner of the bank account.
But he urged the panel to invite a former Special Adviser of the bureau during the period under investigation, Mr. Solomon Wombo, and a former Permanent Secretary, Mr. Asen Sambe, to give details on the bank account.
Ikpe said N1.8 billion monthly salaries of primary school teachers, owed between October 2013 and June 2014, was lodged in a fixed deposit account number 1017993231 with the bank.
The agency’s chief admitted that the bureau paid N18.7 billion between January and May, this year, into the unknown account at the Makurdi branch ofn the bank.
According to him, officials of the bank refused to give the bureau details of the account when its Director of Finance and Administration approached them.
When the panel demanded to know who from the bureau paid N4.6 billion in May and N5 billion in June, last year, among others, Ikpe said the then Accountant, Mr. Isaiah Ipevnor and the then Permanent Secretary, Mr. Sambe, who was the Accounting Officer, were in the best position to explain.
On why N3.4 million was paid monthly by the bureau to a contractor, Ameh Technology, Ikpe said the bureau entered a contractual agreement with the company for the supply and maintenance of generators in the 23 local government areas.
He recalled that since he became the Permanent Secretary, the money had not been paid to the contractor while the bureau was thinking of terminating the contract so that if any local government needed such service, it should request for it.
When the panel’s chairman demanded to know why Ashitech, Ashifood and Akpo Integrated Limited were paid between N40 million and N45 million monthly, the permanent secretary requested for time to enable him search the records and furnish the panel with details.
Justice Kpojime adjourned the sitting to enable Ikpe continue with his testimony today and next Thursday and to enable him tender some documents requested.
A Makurdi High Judge, Justice Ada Onum, had vacated the order obtained by former Governor Gabriel Suswam through an ex parte motion restraining the state government from probing his administration.
This paved the way for the commission to resume sitting.


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Corruption has not stopped yet

Life would be sweeter if God could directly and immediately punish the corrupt in this country while the masses they have defrauded watch. I don't know if they don't have conscience.