Governor of Osun State Senator Ademola Adeleke has suspended Dr. Niyi Oginni, Govt Secretary of Osun Well being Insurance coverage Company, and Dr. Adebukola Olujide, Chairman of the Main Well being Care Improvement Board.

The governor additionally ordered an investigation into the Public Procurement Company, commonly known as the Due Course of Workplace, to learn the way a lot of a job it had within the final 4 years’ contract fraud and non-remittance of tender cash to the state treasury.

This was mentioned in an announcement obtained in Osogbo on Saturday and signed by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed.

Adeleke additionally instructed the Public Procurement Company and different pertinent authorities companies, in keeping with the assertion, to start out the method instantly to recuperate all unpaid tender charges on contract awards and Memorandums of Understanding to which the state has been a celebration within the earlier 4 years.

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The assertion continued, partially, “The suspension of the 2 chief govt officers was in response to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU, which indicted the 2 company chiefs of gross abuse of workplace, mismanagement of public assets, and serial violations of company and public service rules and legal guidelines.

“The Committee in its suggestion had unearthed the unethical practices of the suspended heads of the OSHIA and the Main Well being Care Board as manifested in contract awards with out due course of, non-remittance of the particular tender price collected from contractors, contracts with out worth for cash just like the PHCs, deliberate splitting of contracts.

“The Committee additional discovered that the suspended OHIS boss gave contracts to the tune of a number of hundreds of thousands of naira to his daughter and his personal hospital within the company he’s heading, whereas the performing Profession Head within the Main Well being Care lied on oath when she falsely denied information of all contracts of infrastructures and provides within the PHCs, resorting to bulk-passing and blame buying and selling.”