EFCC invites Osun SUBEB Chairman over grants’ management investigation

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has invited the Executive Chairman of the Osun State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Ibukun Fadipe, for questioning implicit issues surrounding the absorption of Federal Government counterpart grants and the alleged utilisation of involution funds.

The invitation was contained successful a missive dated May 19, 2026, and signed by the EFCC Director of Investigation, Abdulkarim Chukkol.

According to the letter, “Fadipe was directed to look astatine the commission’s office successful Abuja on May 26, 2026.”

The anti-graft bureau stated that “the probe concerns the utilisation of counterpart grants and execution of projects nether the Universal Basic Education Commission strategy successful Osun State from 2024 to date.”

The EFCC cited Section 38 (1) and (2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act, 2004, arsenic the ground for the invitation.

According to the missive with notation fig CR:3000/EFCC/ABJ/PFS/HQ/TA/OSU/VOL.17/322, “the committee requested details connected 8 issues connected to the grants and projects.”

Among the documents requested are “evidence of counterpart funds submitted to UBEC for matching grants from 2024 to date, enactment plans and utilisation guidelines, and records of p...