The
Civil Service has been thrown into confusion following the discovery of huge
sums of money traced to the Head of Service, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita. The Head of Service is being investigated by
the EFCC for contract scam, money laundering and stealing of Government funds. She
is also being investigated, our reporters gathered for lopsided appointments,
postings and promotions not based on competence.
But
the most controversial is the new dimension linking her to the failed Federal Integrated
Staff Housing Scheme (FI.S.H) in which the Federal Government had earmarked
hundreds of billions for which no developer has gotten a single kobo to date. The
botched scheme had attracted the cream of developers nationwide during which various
sums of money running into hundreds of millions were extorted from the developers
under the guise of registration, adverts, site inspection, documentation after
which nothing was heard again. The aggrieved developers had kept quiet
believing that Oyo-Ita was not capable until one Bassey who was then a deputy
director in her office was caught red-handed and transferred. Bassey was
believed to be acting as a front man for the troubled Winifred Oyo-Ita. The
matter took a dramatic turn when the project became grounded unknown to the
developers that the huge sums of money budgeted had developed “wings”! Now, as our
reporters found out, the project had been deliberately grounded on the altar of
selfishness, greed, avarice and outright impunity. “Thank God President Buhari
is working and no matter how highly placed you are, the law will take its
course!” said one of the developers who prefer to remain anonymous. This revelation
is coming to light following a petition by some anonymous Developers who felt
short-changed by the botched Federal Integrated Staff Housing Scheme (F.I.S.H)
initiated by Oyo-Ita. ‘This is sheer fraud”, said the developer who put the
blame squarely on the doorstep of Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita. “They allowed developers to register, fulfil
all obligations and then without warning dashed our hopes so crudely “the developer
disclosed. He further stated that
“today, we now know that Oyo-Ita may have something to do with the fraud”. “These
wicked people care less about the plight of Nigerian Civil Servants and should
be made to pay for it’ said another developer. He contended that Oyo-Ita should
be made to account for the loss of the laudable F.I.S.H programme on account of
her deceptive manner—and looks..
Already,
the sum of N600m has been traced to the account of one of her aides and another
N16b meant for Civil Servants Group Life Insurance (GLIS) allegedly diverted
for personal purposes.
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