School Feeding Prog: ICPC Nab Coordinator
The Kogi State Programme Manager for the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, Khadijat Karibo, and a former State Focal Person for the programme in the state, Adoga Ibrahim, have landed in the net of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, for alleged N68m fraud.
According to the spokesperson for the anti graft agency, Rasheedat Okoduwa, the Commission received a petition alleging that the duo had connived and diverted large sums of money meant for payments to cooks in the national school feeding programme in Kogi State.
“The petition further alleged that the massive fraudulent actions were pulled off by the officials acting in concert with some Banks in the state. Preliminary findings from the ICPC investigations indicate that for the programme to aggregate food items, the request must come from a state governor clearly stating the names and details of suppliers to the national coordinator of the NHGSFP for approval.”
The Commission stated that findings revealed that the Focal Person and the state programme manager directed banks to place a lien on their accounts which were complied with and thereafter had a total sum of N40, 388,558.00 transferred from the accounts of 627 cooks to the accounts of 10 companies out of the money meant for the January 2019 feeding programme for 20 days.
