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PREMIUM TIMES has obtained fresh documents exposing the complicity of Auditor-General of the Federation, Samuel Ukura in the corruption scandal of former Head of Service, Stephen Oronsaye.
A document before the Federal High Court in Abuja in the ongoing corruption trial of a former Head of Service, Stephen Oronsaye, has exposed the Auditor-General of the Federation, Samuel Ukura, as an auditor who lies and engages in cover ups to protect officials accused of graft.
PREMIUM TIMES had in September 2014 exposed a damning report by the Office of the Auditor-General detailing the alleged involvement of Mr. Oronsaye in a N123billion fraud when he served as head of service between 2009 and 2010.
According to the report, entitled “Special Audit of the Accounts of Civil Pension,” Mr. Oronsaye was alleged to have presided over the looting of public funds during his tenure.
However, shortly after the story was published, the Auditor-General circulated statements and bought spaces in some major Nigerian newspapers to disown the report produced by his own office. In the advertorials, Mr. Ukura claimed there was no such report as cited by PREMIUM TIMES in its story.
To counter Mr. Ukura’s claim, PREMIUM TIMES, in a subsequent story, made public the executive summary of the report indicting Mr. Oronsaye.
This newspaper also challenged the Auditor-General, who was apparently under pressure from unknown quarters to disown the report, to explain why he refused to dispatch the report to the National Assembly two years after it was produced even though he was required by law to do so within 90 days.
But after months of deceit and cover ups, Mr. Ukura has now admitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that his office was indeed in possession of the report cited by this newspaper in its report.
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SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES
A document before the Federal High Court in Abuja in the ongoing corruption trial of a former Head of Service, Stephen Oronsaye, has exposed the Auditor-General of the Federation, Samuel Ukura, as an auditor who lies and engages in cover ups to protect officials accused of graft.
PREMIUM TIMES had in September 2014 exposed a damning report by the Office of the Auditor-General detailing the alleged involvement of Mr. Oronsaye in a N123billion fraud when he served as head of service between 2009 and 2010.
According to the report, entitled “Special Audit of the Accounts of Civil Pension,” Mr. Oronsaye was alleged to have presided over the looting of public funds during his tenure.
However, shortly after the story was published, the Auditor-General circulated statements and bought spaces in some major Nigerian newspapers to disown the report produced by his own office. In the advertorials, Mr. Ukura claimed there was no such report as cited by PREMIUM TIMES in its story.
To counter Mr. Ukura’s claim, PREMIUM TIMES, in a subsequent story, made public the executive summary of the report indicting Mr. Oronsaye.
This newspaper also challenged the Auditor-General, who was apparently under pressure from unknown quarters to disown the report, to explain why he refused to dispatch the report to the National Assembly two years after it was produced even though he was required by law to do so within 90 days.
But after months of deceit and cover ups, Mr. Ukura has now admitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that his office was indeed in possession of the report cited by this newspaper in its report.
Click here to read more
SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES
