Osun APC calls on EFCC to freeze alleged N13.7bn ghost workers accounts

The Diaspora Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Campaign Council successful Osun State has called connected the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to instantly frost slope accounts allegedly linked to a reported N13.7 cardinal shade workers’ wage strategy successful the state.

The committee made the telephone successful a connection issued connected Friday successful Osogbo by its Secretary, Tunmise Ajiboye.

It alleged that a advisor engaged by the authorities authorities successful 2023 to behaviour a workforce audit uncovered irregular wage payments amounting to astir N13.7 cardinal annually.

According to the group, the audit reportedly revealed cases wherever salaries of aggregate workers were paid into a azygous slope account.

The committee urged anti-corruption agencies to enactment swiftly to forestall the alleged diversion of nationalist funds, insisting that the wealth could beryllium utilized for governmental activities up of the August 15, 2026 governorship predetermination successful Osun State.

It besides expressed interest implicit what it described arsenic the continued soundlessness of applicable anti-corruption agencies since the alleged discovery, calling connected some the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to motorboat a thorough probe into the matter.

The radical further urged overseas missio...