Ex-Kwara governor’s trial:  Court docket fixes April 20 for cross-examination of EFCC witness   

The trial of former Kwara state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, over alleged diversion of N5.78 billion Common Primary Schooling Fee (UBEC) funds resumed Tuesday with the {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC), presenting an investigator, Stanley Ujilibo, as its sixth witness.

Ahmed and Banu are being prosecuted by the Ilorin zonal directorate of the EFCC, over an alleged diversion of a part of N5.78 billion UBEC.

The EFCC had arraigned the duo on 16 head counts expenses however had up to now deserted about 8 expenses because the starting of the trial.

Testifying because the sixth prosecution witness, an investigator with the EFCC,  Ujilibo, instructed the court docket that funds launched to the Kwara state authorities for 2013, 2014 and 2015 weren’t utilised according to the motion plans submitted by the Kwara State Common Primary Schooling Board (SUBEB).

Led in proof by Adebisi Adeniyi of the chambers of Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, the witness (Ujilibo), knowledgeable the court docket that the Kwara state Common Primary Schooling Board (SUBEB) had introduced detailed motion plans outlining numerous instructional initiatives throughout the state, backed with proof of its counterpart funding, to steer the federal authorities by UBEC to launch the matching grants for the good thing about pupils in major and junior secondary faculties.

“My Lord, a group of officers from the Kwara State Common Primary Schooling Board comprising the chairman, director, finance and account, mission supervisor and high administration officers went to Abuja to defend the motion plans for 2013, 2014 and 2015, stating the deplorable state of Kwara State Main and Junior Secondary Schooling throughout the 16  native authorities areas of the state,” Ujilibo instructed the court docket.   

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