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Ondo State Government, on Thursday announced the suspension of 25 civil servants caught for various offences including stealing, employment racketeering and using fictitious names on the state’s pay roll among others.
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Special Duties, Doyin Adebowale, stated this while speaking to newsmen in Akure.
He explained that they were caught because of the reforms carried out by the Head of Service, Mr. Alex Aragbaye adding that the civil servants would be prosecuted.
According to Odebowale, a particular man employed his wife and placed her on level 14 but she never attended interview and she has been collecting salaries.
He said: “We are here because of certain suspects the governor directed that we prosecute.In the civil service there has been this stealing going on undetected. They do it in several ways especially through staff list.
“We have people that imputed fictitious figures into the payroll. When the new Head of Service got into office, he put in place certain reforms to make us know those in actual service.
“We were able to discover that certain elements whose names appears on staff list were never employed.
“One of them moved 104 million out of SUBEB account. We have other instances of other millions of naira moved. These were pure stealing. They have been suspended. They will be prosecuted and made to face disciplinary measures.”