Top Officers In Kwara Suspended For Alleged N170 Million Theft
According to a Ministry of Health statement released on Wednesday, the Kwara State Government has suspended two senior officials from the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Result (SOML-PforR) to allow for an investigation into allegations of financial irregularities and inconsistencies in the handling of funds.
Dr Ibrahim Omar, the SOML-PforR State Programme Manager, and Alabi Rahman, the Programme Accountant, have been suspended.
The ministry said a preliminary probe into the allegations revealed “some inconsistencies,” adding that efforts to get the officials to offer explanations and verifications were “being deliberately frustrated.”
It added that the officials were being suspended from the programme to “enhance uninterrupted investigation,” urging them to cooperate with the intra-ministerial investigative committee empanelled to look into the “financial transactions of the SOML-PforR between December 2019 and May 2021”.
