Six Kwara SUBEB Officials Are Arrested by the EFCC.

They are being prosecuted on four counts of breach of trust and N96 million in financial embezzlement.

The defendants include Salami Temitope Bashir and Dauda Aweda Quozim, who work in the Salary Unit at the Kwara SUBEB; Ahmed Husain Olarewaju, Director, Finance and Supply; Omole Omololu John, Controller, Finance and Accounts; Fatai Oyerinde, Coordinator, Salary Unit; and Mujeeb Ibrahim, Executive Officer, Account and Salary Schedule.

“That you, Ahmed Husain Olarewaju, Omole Omololu, Fatai Oyerinde, Mujeeb Ibrahim, and Bashir Temitope Salami, between September, 2018 and December, 2018 in Ilorin, within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, as public officers in the service of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB) and in such capacity entrusted with a certain property to wit: the gross sum of N33,891,982.37 (Thirty Three Million, Eight Hundred and Ninety-One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty Two Naira, Thirty Seven Kobo) which formed part of the Kwara State SUBEB funds in account No: 0031236028 domiciled at Sterling Bank Plc, and you thereby committed the offence of criminal breach of trust with respect to the said property, punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code.”

“That you, Ahmed Husain Olarewaju, Omole Omololu, Fatai Oyerinde, Mujeeb Ibrahim, and Bashir Temitope Salami, within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, between January 2019 and June 2019 of Ilorin, as public officers in the service of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board, were entrusted with a certain property to wit: the gross sum of N30,406,629.09 (Thirty Million, Four Hundred and Six Thousand, Six Hundred and Twenty Nine Naira, Nine Kobo), which was part of the Kwara State SUBEB funds in account number 0031236028 domiciled at Stealing Bank Plc. As a result, you committed the crime of criminal breach of trust with regard to the said property, which is punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code.”

After the charges were read to them, they entered a plea of “not guilty.” Andrew Akoja, the prosecution’s attorney, then requested a trial date and the defendants’ remand in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Centre, while Abdullahi Lawal, the defendants’ attorney, made oral bail requests to their clients.

Judge Akanbi ordered the defendants to be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ilorin, and postponed the trial to Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

CREDIT: ALLSCHOOL, Allschoolabs

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