About N5 billion naira is said to have been stolen by the top executives of NECO, who were also accused of diverting staff allowances and bonuses for their personal use.
The whistleblower tendered several documentations to back the charge against the duo, whilst insisting that the Registrar aided by some crooked members of the executive misappropriated workers’ contributions and acquired a private mansion in Minna plus a new multi-million naira hotel that is yet to be commissioned for business in Minna.
The Finance Director is also alleged to have acquired a residential property for himself while a hotel by the name Alovera, is said to be his.
The whistleblower in the government agency also accused both of them of lifestyles way above their earnings and acquiring multi-million naira real estate. He opted to remain anonymous queried the non-remittance of taxes and workers’ contributions to the National Housing Fund (NHF), as well as premiums for their insurance policies provided Standard Alliance Insurance Plc, after deductions have been made from their salaries.
Journalists told 'THEWILL' that Ishola whose monthly salary is around N250K acquired the hotel presently being managed by wife, Betty Ishola.
THEWILL further gathered that both Okpala and Ishola have been under scrutiny for a while following staff complaints over their inability to obtain tax clearance certificates from the Niger State Board of Internal Revenue. A letter from the revenue service to the workers’ union revealed that the NECO executive had not remitted taxes to the State Board of Internal Revenue in at least 5 years. A letter from the federal mortgage bank to agitated workers also revealed the non-remittance of contributions of workers even though contributions are deducted monthly from their pay.
The workers’ union, which discovered the fraud, has asked the Okpala led executive to refund all deductions made on behalf of employees of the examinations body.
Calls and text messages to aides of the NECO bosses were not acknowledged.
So therefore, if it were not to be for this man, the whole world wont know about this embezzlement.
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