By okey alozie
An internal audit report has reportedly indicated that salaries of teachers in some local governments are allegedly being padded with an intent to defraud the state government.
Investigating reports that some top functionaries of the state Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB are behind the alleged manipulation of teachers’ salaries. The alleged salary manipulators were said to have mate their waterloo when special auditors stormed some local government areas in Imo state. For verification
Our reporter was the Ahiazu Mbaise LGA received the worst hit in the suspected fraudulent act.
At the local government, it was discovered that those behind the fraudulent act have perfected the anomalies for many years but nemesis was said to have caught up with them when the special auditors carried a second look on the several reports submitted so far
Some fictitious names were said to have been added in the pay list coupled with false increaments called “padding up”,
Those behind the deal (names withheld) are now on the run as government machinery is moved against them.
The SUBEB chairman Hon, Mrs Getrude Ego Oduka when contacted said that those behind the financial scam will never go unpunished.
She maintained that her coming to SUBEB is to bring sanity and not to protect criminals.
Some concerned citizens of the state have appealed to the Rescue Mission government led by Owelle Rochas Okorocha to place an eagle eye on those who are in the education sector so that the bad officers among them will be shown the way out.
It would be recalled that some youths recently alleged that the paid N200,000 to some of the SUBEB staff for their employment under the youth must work programme.
Similarly, it was alleged that teachers were forced to give out money up to the tune of N300,000 as special bribe before the are assigned to head any school as Principal or head teacher.
Even the school children have been reported to be exploited by teachers in their various schools.
