Osun Governor, Ademola Adeleke has approved the immediate suspension of Dr Niyi Oginni, the Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OHIS) and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, the Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board of the State.
The Governor, in a press release issued Saturday by his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, also directed the Public Procurement Agency and other relevant government agency to immediately kick-off the process to recover all outstanding tender fees on contract awards, JVAs, MOU and others to which the State Government is a party, in the last four years.
Governor Adeleke further announced an holistic investigation of the Public Procurement Agency (The Due Process Office) to determine the extent of its culpability in the non-remmitance of tender fees to the state treasury and contract manipulation in the last four years.
The suspension of the two Chief Executive Officers was sequel to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU, chaired by 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.
The Committee in its recommendation 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, deliberate splitting of contracts.
It also discovered 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 was 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 game.
Rasheed said all directives take immediate effect.
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