Adeleke Suspends Top Osun Officials Over Alleged Corruption

By Adesina Soyooye

For alleged corruption,  Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has suspended, from office, two top officials of his Government. The suspension is with immediate effect.

The suspected officers are Dr. Niyi Oginni, Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OHIS), and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board.

Adeleke  directed the Public Procurement Agency and other Government Agencies to, with  immediate office, begin the process of recovering every other outstanding tender fees on contract awards, JVAs, MoU etc., as long as the State Government is a party, within the past four years.

Adeleke, also, announced an investigation into the Public Procurement Agency (Due Process Office) to find out the extent of “its culpability in the non-remittance of tender fees to the state treasury and contract manipulation in the last four years.”

A statement signed by Adeleke’s Spokesman, Olawale Rasheed, on Saturday, said the “suspension of the two Chief Executive Officers was sequel to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU chaired by Hon Niyi Owolade which indicted the two agency chiefs of gross abuse of office, mismanagement of public resources and serial violations of agency and public service regulations and laws.”

It continued: “The Committee in its recommendation had unearthed the unethical practices of the suspended heads of the OSHIA and the Primary Health Care Board as manifested  in contract awards without due process, non-remittance of actual tender fees collected from contractors, contracts without value for money like the PHCs, deliberate splitting of  contracts.

“The Committee further found out that the suspended OHIS boss gave contracts to the tune of several millions of Naira to his own biological daughter and his own private Hospital in the Agency he is heading, while the Acting Career Head in the Primary Health Care lied on oath when she falsely denied knowledge of all contracts of infrastructures and supplies in the PHCs, resorting to bulk-passing and blame trading.”

Every directive is with immediate effect.