Olufemi Atoyebi, AbujaThe Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested the Kogi State Programme Manager for theNational Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, Khadijat Karibo, and the former State Focal Person for the programmes in the state, Adoga Ibrahim, for alleged N68m fraud. The statement said, “A petition alleging that the erstwhile State Focal Person and the Programme Manager had connived and diverted largesums of money meant for payments to cooks in the national school feeding programme in Kogi State was received by ICPC. “The petition alleged that the duo had perpetrated unlawful and unethical deductions from the accounts of cooks by the use of letterspurportedly signed by them conveying their consent that a blanket and unspecified amount be moved to 10 different business accounts from the cooks’ accounts for sundry aggregated commodity supplies. “The petition further alleged that the massive fraudulent actions were pulled off by the officials acting in concert with some banks in thestate. DOWNLOAD THE PUNCH NEWS APP NOW ON

Source: Punch November 03, 2019 16:41 UTC