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  • UPDATED: Construction worker dies as building collapses in Abuja

    UPDATED: Construction worker dies as building collapses in Abuja

    A construction worker who was rescued from a building collapse in Abuja on Saturday, November 25, is dead.

    The deceased was part of the labourers casting the first floor of a building when the entire cast fell on him.

    According to a statement issued by the head of public affairs, FEMA, Nkechi Isa, the incident occurred at a construction site located in the Central Business District, beside Taj Bank, around 3:30 pm.

    Isa said: “The victim was rescued and taken to the Trauma Centre of the National Hospital, Abuja, for treatment is dead.

    “The Search and Rescue team of the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reports that the incident occurred at about 3.30 pm.

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    “The report stated that FEMA was alerted around 4 pm after the construction workers unsuccessfully tried to rescue their trapped colleague to no avail.

    “The team from FEMA and the FCT Fire service were able to rescue the trapped man with the aid of extrication equipment and the construction company’s excavator.

    “In a reaction, the acting director general of FEMA, Mohammed Ibrahim Sabo, who was personally at the scene of the incident and rescue efforts, appealed to developers to always adhere to the building codes.

    “The Ag DG also urged construction companies and developers to shun the use of substandard materials or cut corners during construction. They should prioritise the safety of their workers during construction and that of the ultimate consumers who are the future occupants of the building.”

  • Worker charged with theft

    A logistics officer with the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) Plc, Mairiga Umar, who allegedly stole four trucks of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol, valued at N17.7million, was yesterday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court I.

    Umar, 48, was arraigned by the police on a one-count charge of theft before Mrs. Oluwatoyin Oghere.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Modupe Olaluwoye alleged that Umar committed the offence last September, at NIPCO office, Apapa, Lagos.

    The court heard that the defendant allegedly stole four trucks laden with 132,000 litres of PMS valued at N17.7 million from the company while he was in its employ.

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    The prosecutor said the company’s management discovered the fraud during its end of year audit.

    Umar was also accused of converting the proceeds from the illegal sale of the PMS to his use.

    Olaluwoye said the offence contravened Section 287 (7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Chief Magistrate Oghere granted Umar N5 million bail with two sureties in the like sum, among other conditions.

    The case continues on June 19.

  • Buhari is most worker-friendly President, says Garba Shehu

    As Nigeria marks workers day on Tuesday, the Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is heading the most workers friendly administration in the history of the country.

    The Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement said that President Buhari stopped the planned retrenchment of thousands of workers when he assumed office in 2015.

    He said “Tuesday, May 1 is Worker’s Day all over the world and expectations are that questions will be asked of what Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria is doing to make life better for workers in the country.

    “I place a caveat here. I work for the President and I am paid for the work I do. This is to save the naysayers some trouble, using their energy to launch attacks when I say that President Buhari is the most-worker friendly administration this country has seen for a long, long time, if ever. Here is the evidence.

    “When he came into office in 2015, President Buhari met a plan literally cast in stone from 2014 for the retrenchment of thousands of workers by the previous administration. The basis of this, as was then stated is that the civil service was over bloated and the payment of salaries was giving them trouble. The plan was put on for the elections.

    “You recall that when he was presented with the interim report of the Ahmed Joda-led transition committee, the President-elect was shown a document in which 23 states had not paid their workers, in one or two cases for up to 12 months. He said this was a national emergency and would be treated as such.

    “The first thing the President did on coming to office was to stop the planned retrenchment. No retrenchment, he ordered, and charged everyone to go and pay them.” he said

    According to him, when the economic recession deepened and the banks and oil companies began to retrench, the President asked the Minister of Labour and Employment to stop it.

    “If anyone refused to make a sacrifice as others were doing, they should be sanctioned.” he said

    The presidential aides also disclosed that to ease the tight liquidity situation in which the states were, the President gave bailout loans through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), specifically asking them to pay workers and pensioners.

    He said “In 2015, a Salary loan of about N338bn was disbursed to the states. He gave approval to the CBN to extend the repayment periods of their other loans so that they could have more money that they can use to take care of their workers.

    “Similarly, the huge, unpaid refunds due to the states from the Paris and London Club settlements for which the federal government overcharged the other two tiers of government that had remained unpaid since the Obasanjo years have been given an attention.

    “So far, two tranches, making about 50 per cent have so far been returned to them. In sum total, N1.75tn has been given to states as extra-statutory allocation known as bailout since the advent of President Buhari’s administration.

    “The President has also been paying attention to the accumulated problems of outstanding allowances, promotion allowances, earned- allowances etc. which have pitched unions in various sectors against the government. These are problems dating back to the years of the PDP administration. Already, three billion Naira has been paid and another eight billion is on the way.

    “In the forthcoming payments, government is particularly interested in alleviating the problems of ASUU and NASU staff in universities that refused to join the last strike action, and for which their mother unions excluded their members from the lists they submitted for payment.

    “Similarly, government appropriated N30 billion in 2017 and more will be paid under the 2018 appropriation for offsetting the backlog of promotion allowances; hazard and call duty allowances and so forth. In all cases, government has given instructions that allowances be paid directly into the personal accounts of beneficiaries, to avoid past practices of diversion of funds by ministries.” he said

    To ease the housing problems of workers, he said that the administration has set up the Federal Integrated Staff Housing (FISH), by which civil servants have started owning houses categorized as One Bedroom, for between N3-5 million; Two Bedroom, for N5-10 million; Three Bedroom for N9-15 million and Four Bedroom between N13-17million, the latter designed for public servants.

    “All they are required do is to obtain an application for N1, 000 and apply. All states of the Federation are to benefit from this scheme.

    “The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has started commissioning these houses that have been completed in places like Kubwa and Lugbe in the FCT. Nasarawa, Cross River, Gombe and Lagos States are to follow.

    “There is also an on-going Federal Mass Housing Scheme, in two categories, one by the Ministry of Finance and the other by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. The two schemes are running at a parallel and have both taken off.

    “The issue of the national minimum wage is now back as a top agenda of the administration. It has entered its final stages with public hearings held in the six geopolitical zones of the country between April 23- 30.

    “The government has continued to pay attention to service welfare with promotions being sustained throughout the public sector. The National Health Insurance Scheme is being reinvigorated and pensions being streamlined by the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD.)

    “The public service is being re-injected with new blood with on-going recruitment exercises in the Immìgration, the police and the three branches of the Armed Forces.

    “In doing all these and many more, the message from President Buhari to workers and the labour unions is that they are seen and treated as partners.

    “Nigeria, the largest economy on the continent cannot be where it is today without the commitment of workers. The stock market continues to soar, the administration continues to score big on major rail, road and other infrastructure projects that are unfolding across the country, all due to the commitment and dedication of Nigerian workers. On this day and always, the nation owes them a lot of gratitude.” he stated

  • NAICOM workers back after signing MoU 

    NAICOM workers back after signing MoU 

    The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has said its members of staff, who went on strike last week have returned to work after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the management.

    Head, Corporate Affairs NAICOM, Rasaaq Salami, in a statement said the strike was called off following an agreement reached between the management and members of staff in a peace meeting brokered by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige.

    The workers protested over unpaid allowances, poor welfare, lack of promotion, working tools and capacity building.

    Other area of grievance include delay in the review of insurance Act 2003 by the National Assembly, claiming that the proposed insurance bill, when passed, would move the sector and the commission forward.

  • Civil Defence uncovers sex workers’ ring among students

    Civil Defence uncovers sex workers’ ring among students

    •Arrests 10 ward heads for alleged fraud

    Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) command in Borno State said yesterday it had uncovered a sex workers’ ring in colleges and tertiary institutions.

    The Commandant, Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, said the suspects were aged between 25 and below.

    He added: “The sex workers have their facilitators and a chief pimp outside the schools, who communicate on how to arrange them. They charge from N10,000 and above for a night.

    “The sex workers don’t go out looking for men, as they are patronised by visitors, who come into town for weekend or for a programme.

    “Our investigation shows the teenagers are into nefarious activities, such as smoking cannabis sativa and abuse of Codein cough syrup.

    “We appeal to parents to monitor their children. Bad friends cause this anti-social behaviour.”

    The commandant, who said the suspects would be prosecuted, urged school authorities to monitor students.

    NSCDC said it has arrested 10 ward heads in Maiduguri for alleged land grabbing and swindling.

    Abdullahi said most of the heads had perpetrated more than five land fraud, with the connivance of civil servants.

    He said: “The culprits take advantage of people who don’t check up on their land.

    “Whenever they notice that a land owner is not around, they make fake papers and sell the plots to unsuspected individuals.

    “There are instances where one plot is sold to five or six persons. They change their names during fraudulent transactions.

    “We will get back the money of the people they have defrauded and arraign the suspected ward heads.”

    The commandant said the Dispute Resolution Department of NSCDC recorded

    38 cases of land grabbing allegedly perpetrated by ward heads in two months.

    He advised the public to be wary of persons disguising as land owners, as some were out to defraud people.

  • Ending 12 years’ agony

    No worker likes to be owed even a month’s pay. The pain becomes unimaginable when the arrears run into months or years.

    It gets worse still when such workers are no longer in service and do not have any other means of livelihood.

    While waiting and praying for God to intervene so the arrears can be cleared, many of the workers have died – no thanks  to the challenges they faced and  the worsening economic realities.

    Some of these Nigerian workers who have experienced this ugly scenario over the years are the ex-workers of the defunct national carrier, the Nigeria Airways.

    The national carrier was liquidated by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration in 2005.

    The ex-workers’ outstanding entitlements, which was estimated at N78 billions, have remained in arrears for over 12 years as previous governments had kept closed eyes and ears toA the ex-workers’ demands.

    The ex-workers mid-last month staged a peaceful protest at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos over the delayed payment of their entitlements.

    Speaking on behalf of the group, Sam Nzene, the Chairman of the Nigeria Airways Chapter of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, said: “We understand the funds are ready because bond was floated and the bond has since matured in June, but up till now, what we are saying is that nobody has called us for negotiations on the next line of action.

    “By now, we should be working with the unit that has been mandated to pay us, but up till now they are doing the payment in secret.

    “They do not want us to know. Even the aviation ministry is not so much in the know of what they are doing, so we want the President to please call those concerned to order.

    “We are not quarreling that we have not been paid, but that the union should be aware of what they are doing, so that we can equally tell our members to remain calm that we will get our money.

    “Since the approval came, nobody has told us what has been approved, but as long as we are concerned, our money is N78 billion; 5,909 workers and pensioners are to benefit,” he said

    Showing that he cares for Nigerians, both in service and out of service, President Muhammadu Buhari, a fortnight ago, changed their story.

    The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika disclosed to State House correspondents that the President has approved N45 billion to settle the outstanding payments owed the workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways.

    Sirika said, “Governments, in the past, decided just to liquidate Nigerian airways without tending to the issue of the entitlements of the workers and they have been struggling to get that paid and we came in government and we took it very seriously.

    “I’m happy to announce that Mr President has approved N45 billion which has been confirmed to be the entitlements of these workers and Ministry of Finance has been instructed to pay and the ministry has written to me last week, to say that they have received the instruction to pay these workers, and therefore, they are setting up the modalities to pay.

    “You should know it won’t pay through my Ministry before somebody will say I take some of it. It will be paid by Finance Ministry of through a process, and that process will commence very soon,’’ he said.

    While many Nigerians have been commending the administration for the move, its important for the gesture to be extended beyond the aviation sector by clearing similar backlogs in other sectors of the economy.

    Doing this will go a long way to ensure peace and harmony needed for development and growth of the nation.

    (2) Lawal and the SGF role

    With the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, Dr. Habiba Lawal has been holding sway as acting SGF for some months.

    Lawal, who shares the same surname with Babachir, has been effectively performing the functions and roles of the SGF in the office.

    But the acting SGF appeared to have remained in the background for several weeks as far as the roles Babachir used to play before the commencement of every Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting was concerned.

    Babachir then always played the role of a class captain just like in a classroom setting.

    He always ensured orderliness and decorum in the Council chamber before the arrival of the President.

    Ministers and other cabinet members usually gather in groups exchanging plesantaries and discussing latest happenings in the polity before commencement of FEC.

    Babachir’s voice was always heard on the sound system, few minutes to the meeting, urging the Ministers to take their seats in preparation for the arrival of the President and commencement of the meeting.

    Sometimes, Babachir will not hesitate to call the names of the ministers who failed to heed his earlier advice and again urge the cabinet member to settle down.

    But all those appeared to be relaxed when the Acting SGF stepped into Babachir’s shoes.

    The Ministers and cabinet members were allowed to do their things unhindered until a presidential aide announces the President’s arrival.

    For several weeks, the Acting SGF also avoided the SGF seat in the Council chamber as she always sat at the back row prior to the commencement of FEC.

    All these have, however, changed in the past two weeks.

    The Acting SGF has now been maintaining orderliness in the Council chamber before commencement of FEC.

    Her voice is now always heard urging the ministers to settle down few minutes to the beginning of the meeting.

    She has also moved to the SGF seat in the front row in the chamber, few seats away from the President.

  • Unions seek inclusion of workers’ interests in PIB

    Unions seek inclusion of workers’ interests in PIB

    Oil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Workers (NUPENG) have called on the National Assembly to include workers’ interests in the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) undergoing the process of being passed at the National Assembly.

    The unions made the call in a memorandum submitted to the Joint Senate Committee on PIGB at a public hearing on the Bill in Abuja. They based their memorandum on five major policy broad thrusts which are: transparency and accountability, fiscal terms,     institutional framework (minister, regulator and commercial entities), refinery and other downstream activities, and labour issues and membership of institutions, boards and committees.

    “The position of the NUPENG and PENGASSAN is that wherever matters concerning or connected with the workers such as interalia:  remuneration, pension, welfare, transfer and deployment are mentioned, the unions (PENGASSAN and NUPENG) must be involved and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) must be respected and clearly included in the law,” the unions stated in the memorandum.

    According to the two oil and gas in-house trade unions in their memorandum titled: “PENGASSAN’s Position on the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill 2016”, the bill will determine the future of Nigerian oil and gas industry, as well as the Nigerian workers.

    The unions said: “This is more so as the bill contains provisions about staff transfers from the NNPC and other impacted government agencies. The bill also plans to change the ownership structure of the government establishments in the petroleum sector, including asset sales and eventual divestments.

    “Clearly, the PIGB is intended to privatise as much as it is practicable, government’s interest in the petroleum sector. This, if not carefully handled, will lead to serious labour issues.

    “There are also additional challenges posed by repeals of existing laws as some of the Acts establishing the government agencies except for Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) and Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) will be repealed by the PIGB.

    “The position of the PENGASSAN and NUPENG is that staff of the NNPC and all other agencies that will be impacted by the PIGB must NOT lose their jobs or be allowed to be transferred on terms and condition of service that are less favourable than what they currently have under any guise.”

    The unions noted that a major challenge that will confront the workers in the organisations and agencies that will be impacted by the PIGB, especially the National Petroleum Company, is the transition from a more socially focused organisation to a profit-focused organisation.

  • Uproar in OAU over workers’ unpaid allowances

    Uproar in OAU over workers’ unpaid allowances

    The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Senate meeting was going on peacefully until some workers stormed the venue, protesting the alleged non-payment of their allowances. The protesters allegedly manhandled some members of the Senate, but the school says there is no cause for alarm, as the issues are being resolved, reports WALE AJETUNMOBI.

    Barely two months after Prof Anthony Elujoba assumed office as the Acting Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, the honeymoon between him and the workers seems over. Another crisis has erupted between management and the workers’ unions over unpaid salary arrears and allowances.

    Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), it was learnt,  disrupted the last OAU Senate meeting because of the VC’s alleged failure  to pay the allowances.

    A source said some members of the workers’ union threatened Prof Elujoba’s life, an allegation the NASU chairman, Wole Odewumi, denied.

    The school’s spokesman, Abiodun Olanrewaju, said no one threatened the VC’s life when the meeting was disrupted. He, however, said some of the workers were unruly, adding that they “manhandled” some members of the Senate.

    Prof Elujoba’s appointment as  Acting VC on July 21 was greeted with spontaneous celebrations. Workers and students trooped out in a carnival-like procession round the campus immediately the announcement was made.

    In academic circles, the celebration indicated acceptance of the new OAU helmsman. Elujoba’s appointment came after months of controversy over the selection of a substantive VC, which pitted the university workers against the Governing Council.

    A member of the Senate told CAMPUSLIFE that SSANU and NASU members had initially threatened to deal with the Bursar, Mrs Josephine Akeredolu, during a management meeting held on August 29. CAMPUSLIFE gathered that Mrs Akeredolu was sent on compulsory leave for her safety.

    At the meeting, it was gathered, the VC was allegedly forced to sign a document, promising to pay 10 months arrears of the second tranche of earned allowances codenamed “Productivity Allowance”.

    The Acting VC, CAMPSULIFE learnt, told the workers’ unions that paying the allowances from the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) would violate the Federal Government’s directive, which prohibits higher institutions from disbursing their IGR and investment funds to pay emoluments.

    CAMPUSLIFE gathered that Prof Elujoba explained to the Senate members that the government had not released the second tranche of the earned allowances to the university, saying he had verified from the school’s banks  to know whether the funds had been remitted to pay the allowances.

    The demand for payment of the earned allowances led to a protracted crisis between the unions and the immediate past VC, Prof Bamitale Omole.

    Speaking to our correspondent on telephone, Olanrewaju said: “It is not correct that anybody threatened to attack the VC. That is not the true picture of what transpired at the last Senate meeting. The VC addressed members of the union when some of them became unruly, because they learnt that the Bursar was at the meeting, which I also personally attended.

    “It was the VC that called the unions’ leaders to sort out the salary issues of members of staff school of the university. So, that was the purpose and primary aim of the meeting. The members of the unions came and felt they should raise concern about their earned allowances because of the presence of the Bursar at the meeting.

    “They felt everything would be sorted out there. So, they started singing and chanting. Some of them also believed it was an opportunity for the Bursar to tell the VC where the money of the university is being kept. They held virtually everyone at the meeting hostage, but they did not touch the VC. Some people were manhandled. But, nobody threatened the VC.”

    On the alleged compulsory leave of the Bursar, the spokesman said: “Mrs Akeredolu requested to go on leave because she had some accumulated leave she had not observed. It has nothing to do with threat to her life.”

    At the time of this report, there was palpable fear in the school as  SSANU and NASU vowed not to back down on their demands. For peace to reign, the unions listed four demands that the acting VC must meet.

    The demands included stopping and returning of pension deductions, implementation of two-step salary differential for teaching staff, payment of 15 per cent outstanding salary arrears, and payment of earned allowances, hazard, excess workload and overtime.

    It remained unclear how the management would meet the workers’ demand, but a highly-placed source said Prof Elujoba was considering the payment of the workers’ allowances in violation of the government’s directive if only to allow peace to reign.

    Denying that the unions disrupted the Senate meetings, Odewumi told CAMPUSLIFE on telephone “Who told you we disrupted the Senate meeting? There was nothing like that. The acting VC has set up a task force on the unpaid allowances and we are still working on it. We met with the task force members last Friday and the meeting was postponed to Wednesday (yesterday).

    “If it was not for the Sallah holiday, we would have concluded the meeting last Monday. But, by Friday (tomorrow), everything would be okay. I can confirm to you that there is no crisis in OAU, at least for now.”

    Odewumi also said it was not true that the unions forced the Acting VC to sign a document to pay the earned allowances. “As I said earlier, there is no truth in the rumour. We will not force anyone to pay our lawful allowances. The last meeting we held with the VC went smoothly and I have the report of the meeting,” he said.

     

     

     

  • Sacked AOCOED worker seeks reinstatement

    A sacked member of staff of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) Ijanikin, Arinle Ahmed Adekunle, has appealed to Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to direct his reinstatement because the process leading to his termination was flawed.

    Arinle said he was investigated by a ‘special ad-hoc committee of council on staff matters’ whose duty was to probe top principal officers and not a level 6 officer like him.

    Arinle’s plea was contained in a petition dated August 19, 2016, addressed to the Lagos State government and the Head of Service.

    He alleged that he was sacked by the Governing Council, which investigated him and other principal officers on allegation of corruption to the tune of N1.5 billion, but nothing was found to nail him.

    According to him, his offence as contained in his letter of termination dated August 3, 2016, was that he was a shareholder in a company called Rinllanded Nigeria Limited.

    Providing documents to back up his claim, Arinle noted that no civil service rule in Lagos State  prohibited workers from doing so.

    “Now if I have contravened any of these rules, which I have not in any way; where in the Edict of the college suggested termination? Where in the condition of service or the Lagos State public service rules for public and civil servants suggest the termination of my appointment? Isn’t something fishy here?” the petitioner queried.

    He said the same council also investigated and found some other workers guilty of rape, plagiarism, corruption among others, but gave them light sentences because they were “sacred cows”.

    He lamented that given the caliber of members of the Council chaired by Prof Tunde Samuel, they should know that offences such as plagiarism and rape were deserving of greater punishment than demotion.

    He accused the Council of giving soft landing to a deputy registrar who collected money in two other institutions while on sabbatical.

    Responding to the allegations, Prof Samuel, said Arinle’s claims were frivolous.

    He described Arinle as the ‘conduit pipe’ through which the top principal officers that served in the last administration “siphoned money meant for the institution.”

    “He (Arinle) was behind the establishment of a company producing water and ID cards used as conduit pipe by (former) management to siphon money. He was making money from producing water, ID cards and at the same time earning salary as a staff.”

    On those that were pardoned, Samuel said the Council, which came on board about a year ago, simply acted on the recommendation of the previous Council.

    “It is true that we recommended demotion to some of these people. Let me tell you that some of these allegations were before we came on board. We at Council, exhaustively reviewed and deliberated over the matter and we felt we should just uphold the recommendation of the previous Council,” he said.

    Further, he said he would be willing to welcome Arinle or aggrieved individuals in court, adding that the Council has more than enough evidence on the financial atrocities by the perpetrators.

    “When we came on board, we did not rush, but conducted thorough investigation. That place (AOCOED) was rotten! How can management choose to have awarded contract worth N500 million when its approval limit was five and thebProvost N1 millon?” Samuel asked.

     

  • FAAN suspends worker for alleged fraud

    FAAN suspends worker for alleged fraud

    The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) yesterday said it has  suspended a worker for alleged diversion of its funds.

    Economic and Financialo Crimes Commission (EFCC), operatives stormed the headquaters of the authority yesterday to continue investigations into the matter reported by the management.

    The operatives, who arrived in the afternoon in a Hilux vehicle, combed relevant departments for documents that will will aid their investigations.

    Workers were seen in groups discussing the arrival of the  operatives.

    Investigations revealed that the accused were said to have diverted the agency’s funds into different accounts over certain period of time until they were discovered by the management.

    A source hinted that upon discovery of the fraud, the  management set up a committee, which investigated the major suspect who promptly named others involved in the fraud and they were swiftly suspended.

    It was learnt that it was when the committee drilled the main suspect who confessed that some of the monies were sent to her brother’s accounts, that prompted the management to further invite more suspects who were subsequently suspended.

    The EFCC operatives who got wind of the matter decided to investigate it and have detained the prime suspects.