Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has approved the immediate suspension of Dr Niyi Oginni, Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency (OHIS) and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, Head of the state Primary Health Care Development Board (PHCDB).
Their suspension by Governor Adele was sequel to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU, chaired by Honourable Niyi Owolade.
The committee had, in its report, indicted the two agency chiefs of alleged gross abuse of office, mismanagement of public resources and serial violations of agency and public service regulations and laws
Adeleke also directed the Public Procurement Agency and other relevant government agencies to kick-start the to recover all outstanding tender fees on contract awards, JVAs, MOU etc, to which the state government is a party, in the last four years.
Governor Adeleke further announced an holistic investigation of the Public Procurement Agency (the Due Process Office) to determine the extent of its culpability in the non-remmitance of tender fees to the state treasury and contract manipulation in the last four years.
The Honourable Owolade-led committee, in its recommendation, had unearthed the unethical practices of the suspended heads of the OSHIA and the (PHCDB).
These, it said, manifested in contract awards without due process, non-remittance of actual tender fee collected from contractors, contracts without value for money like the PHCs, deliberate splitting of contracts.
The committee further found out that the suspended OHIS boss allegedly gave contracts to the tune of several millions of naira to his own biological daughter and his own private hospital in the agency he is heading.
The acting career Head in the (PHCDB) was said to have lied on oath when she falsely denied knowledge of all contracts of infrastructures and supplies in the PHCs, resorting to buck-passing and blame trading.
“All directives take immediate effect,” Governor Adeleke stated in a press release issued by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed.
