The Ebonyi State government yesterday alleged that the office of the State Auditor-General of local government areas has uncovered fraud of over N1.5billion by officials of the State Universal Education Board, UBEB being salaries of teachers in most of the non-existing schools and ghost workers in the board.

The Auditor General of the Local Government Areas who was newly appointed by the State Governor, Chief Dave Umahi, Chief George Ukpai at the Universal Education Board also sealed-off the Audit centre of the Board (UBEB) following the refusal of the board officials to allow his office unfettered access to the centre where he alleged most of the fraud are masterminded.

According to a statement issued at the UBEB headquarters, Abakaliki by Chief Ukpai, he directed that no further processing, retrieval of information and other actions related thereto should be at the centre until further notice.

He noted that directive was as a result of financial frauds rocking the state local government system and the Universal Basic Education Board he is overseeing.

Addressing journalists after sealing off the center and the verification exercise in the area explained that the salaries of teachers at the Primary and Junior Secondary levels which is N532million was increased to N1.6billion by the principal officers of the board.

He disclosed that the one of local government workers which stands at N564million was also inflated to well over N1billion which he said accounted to why the state government constituted verification committee.

Ukpai added that the unauthorized increment of the salaries by the local government and UBEB officers led to the inability of the state government to pay the May and June salaries of workers which according to him would have put the state government and labour on collision but for the understanding by the workers.

He announced that the committee in its preliminary investigation has uncovered large number of ghost workers in the state.

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1.5bn?? Dats a lot of money

I think we need to audit all the states LGAs

I wonder how much dey will uncover if dey come to lagos state .Hmmmmmm

sben2308:
I wonder how much dey will uncover if dey come to lagos state .Hmmmmmm

Keep measuring your coat with lagos
Lagos is progressing.

Igbo kwenu

Ebonyi has loads of Mooney. These our politicians are not smiling o. They have no conscience, it has long been replaced wit wickedness. Someone somewhere will start shouting that Engineer Dave is witch hunting sorry....wizard hunting ex gov. Elechi.

PDP - fower to the fefu