JUST IN: Adeleke Suspends Heads Of Agencies, Gives Strong Order

JUST IN: Adeleke Suspends Heads Of Agencies, Gives Strong Order

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the immediate suspension of Dr. Niyi Oginni, Executive Secretary of the Osun Health Insurance Agency (OHIS), and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, Head of the State’s Primary Healthcare Development Board.

Governor Adeleke also directed the Public Procurement Agency and other relevant government agencies to immediately begin the process of recovering all outstanding tender fees on contract awards, JVAs, and Memorandums of Understanding to which the State government has been a party in the last four years.

The agency heads were suspended following the release of the interim report by the Niyi Owolade-led Committee on Contracts and MoU.

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The duo were accused of gross abuse of office, mismanagement of public resources, and serial violations of agency and public service regulations and laws, according to Rasheed Olawale, the State governor’s spokesperson.

The Governor announced a comprehensive investigation of the Public Procurement Agency (the Due Process Office) to determine the extent of its culpability in the non-remittance of tender fees to the State treasury and contract manipulation over the last four years, according to the statement.

“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 fee collected from contractors, contracts without value for money, like the PHCs and 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.”

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