A senior education official in Zaria Local Government has been suspended by the Kaduna State Government, over misconduct with monies meant for vendors in the state’s free feeding programme.
The state’ Commissioner for Education Science and Technology, Dr Shehu Adamu, made this known while giving updates to newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday 23rd January, 2016, on the implementation of state’s free feeding programme.
The commissioner disclosed that the officer was suspended for allegedly tampering with the financial dealings of the food vendors contracted to provide food to the primary pupils within Zaria local government area.
Adamu further said that “Based on our arrangement, the monies for the vendors would be deposited weekly in banks where each of the vendors’ cooperative societies opened their account.
“The heads of the cooperative societies will thereafter access the money and distribute same to each vendor accordingly, based on the number of pupils expected to be fed in a week at N50 per plate.
“But it was alleged that the officer gathered all the heads of the cooperative societies within the local government in his office.
“He collected the monies from them and was personally sharing it to the vendors which lasted up to the middle of Monday night, thereby affecting the implementation of the programme in Zaria.
“That is not his responsibility, and therefore, he is suspended to enable the ministry carry out full investigation into the matter.
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