But Why, How? 18.7 Billion Naira,Meant For Benue State Teachers' Salaries Missing?
Governor Of Benue State- Chief Samuel Ortom Emmanuel Ikpe, the permanent secretary of the Bureau, testifying before the commission could not give satisfactory explanation as to the owner of the bank account belonged to. He appealed to the commission to invite the former Special Adviser of the Bureau during the period under investigation, Solomon Wombo and the then Permanent Secretary, Asen Sambe, to give the required clarifications. According to Daily Post, he said N1.8b monthly salaries of primary school teachers owed between October 2013 and June 2014, was lodged in the fixed deposit account number 1017993231 with First Bank of Nigeria. Ikpe confessed that the Bureau made payments between January and May, 2015 up to the tune of N18.7 into the unknown account at First Bank, Makurdi adding that officials of the bank refused to give the Bureau details of the account when the Director of Finance and Administration approached them. When the commission demanded to