Lagos Ministry Fraud: Suspects Sent To Kirikiri Prisons.
The three suspects arrested in connection with the N300 million fraud that rocked the Lagos State Ministry of Education have been sent to Kirikiri Prison.
The suspects are two accountants and one administrative officer. They were remanded in prison as the state government is bent on prosecuting them to serve as deterrent to others.
The suspects, who were arraigned at the Ikeja High Court could not perfect their bail conditions and have to be remanded at Kirikiri Prison pending when the case comes up later in the year,
It was also gathered that the suspects were first remanded at the cell of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, for two weeks before they were arraigned in court for trial.
The monumental fraud which was committed in Education District IV had caused a stir and opened government’s eyes to several fraudulent cases being perpetrated by civil servants in Alausa.
Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye, had disclosed that the alleged fraud was actually not committed within the ministry but in Education District IV.
She had said the amount involved was not up to N300 million as being reported in the media but that the fraud took place about one and half years ago and that there was nothing new about it.
However, the commissioner refused to disclose the actual amount of money involved in the scandal.
It was reported on Monday that the fraud of about N300 million was uncovered in the Lagos State Ministry of Education, and that the alleged scam involved one of the state’s educational districts where about N30 million public fund was allegedly being diverted, on a monthly basis, into some personal accounts in the last 10 months.
It was gathered that the fraud was unravelled when a junior staff, precisely a cleaner, found in her account N150, 000 and raised the alarm over how the money got there.
It was also alleged that some senior officers used the accounts of their subordinates without their knowledge to siphon public fund.
The three suspects arrested in connection with the N300 million fraud that rocked the Lagos State Ministry of Education have been sent to Kirikiri Prison.
The suspects are two accountants and one administrative officer. They were remanded in prison as the state government is bent on prosecuting them to serve as deterrent to others.
The suspects, who were arraigned at the Ikeja High Court could not perfect their bail conditions and have to be remanded at Kirikiri Prison pending when the case comes up later in the year,
It was also gathered that the suspects were first remanded at the cell of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, for two weeks before they were arraigned in court for trial.
The monumental fraud which was committed in Education District IV had caused a stir and opened government’s eyes to several fraudulent cases being perpetrated by civil servants in Alausa.
Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye, had disclosed that the alleged fraud was actually not committed within the ministry but in Education District IV.
She had said the amount involved was not up to N300 million as being reported in the media but that the fraud took place about one and half years ago and that there was nothing new about it.
However, the commissioner refused to disclose the actual amount of money involved in the scandal.
It was reported on Monday that the fraud of about N300 million was uncovered in the Lagos State Ministry of Education, and that the alleged scam involved one of the state’s educational districts where about N30 million public fund was allegedly being diverted, on a monthly basis, into some personal accounts in the last 10 months.
It was gathered that the fraud was unravelled when a junior staff, precisely a cleaner, found in her account N150, 000 and raised the alarm over how the money got there.
It was also alleged that some senior officers used the accounts of their subordinates without their knowledge to siphon public fund.
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