Kogi government has reacted to
the death of a director in the civil service, Alphonsus Ameh.
On Thursday, Chief Press
Secretary to Governor Yahaya Bello, Petra Onyegbule said Ameh was sacked due to
his alleged involvement in fraudulent diversion of N225,936,425million pension
fund.
Onyegbule, told newsmen in
Lokoja, that the late Ameh and four others were fired.
The aide listed them as are Mrs.
Florence Adewunmi, Chairperson of the Pensions Board; Mrs. Haruna Amina Mudi,
Director Accounts; Mr. Abdul Musa, Deputy Director Accounts; and Mr. Itodo
Gabriel, Head of Accounts.
Onyegbule said a nine-man Senior
Management Committee headed by Mr. Aiyedero Jethro, the Ag. Permanent Secretary
as Chairman; and Mr. John Ekele, Ag. DAF as the Secretary, was set up by the
government to look into the matter.
She recalled that an emergency
meeting of the committee was held on May 4, 2017, which drew the attention of the
members to the report from the State Intelligence Bureau and the review of the
same by State Auditor-General, Mr. Yusuf Okala.
She said the report was on a case
of misappropriation of Pensioners’ fund, forwarded to the office of the Head of
Civil Service by the Secretary to the State Government where the Governor had
directed that immediate action be taken appropriately.
“In the report, the auditor
general recommended the immediate dismissal of all civil servants indicted in
the police report.
“Based on the personal confession
by Mr. Alphonsus Ameh to the State Intelligence Bureau and that he commenced
repayment, an attestation that he committed the fraud.
“The late Ameh confirmed to the
committee that he received a sum of N2 million as his own share of the looted
pensioners’ fund, which he thought was a Christmas bonus.
“Ameh also confirmed that he had
refunded part of the money, and pleaded that the committee should tamper
justice with mercy considering the numbers of years he had put in the service.
“The committee said that since
Ameh affirmed his participation in the sharing of the misappropriated fund,
coupled with the fact that he (Ameh) had commenced refunding part of the money,
confirmed that he was guilty of the offence.
“The committee added that Ameh
has violated the Public Service Rule (PSR) No. 4, section 04401 No. VIII, XI
and XII, liable to dismissal from the Service, and therefore, recommended that
the punishment stipulated by the PSR should be upheld as a deterrent to other
civil servants.
“It is on the recommendation of
the committee that Mr. Aphonsus Yahaya Ameh, and four others were sacked in
June 2017, because a Case of criminal conspiracy and theft was established
against them,” Petra said.
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