Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has approved the immediate suspension of the Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Scheme, OHIS, Dr. Niyi Oginni and the Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board in the State, Dr. Adebukola Olujide.
According to a statement by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the suspension of the two Chief Executive Officers was sequel to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU chaired by Mr. Niyi Owolade which indicted them 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 had disclosed the unethical practices of the suspended heads of the OHIS 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.
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.
The Governor 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, to which the State Government is a party, in the last four years.
He further directed 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.All directives take immediate effect.
Funmi Adekoya
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