UNIOSUN - EFCC PROBE: I was never aware of EFCC Interrogating Officials of The University - Ag. Registrar Osun State University
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has launched a Probe of Contract Inflation on Osun State University.
The university had , in 2013 , embarked on the construction of a library at its Osogbo campus.
A source told our correspondent on
Friday that some present and former officials of the university were being investigated .
It was gathered that the EFCC was also probing how the institution’s
management spent reparation fees collected from students of Ikire campus for vandalising property of the institution during a protest in 2014 .
The source stated that three
companies , De Kingly Nigeria Limited ; Folly B Production ; and Benton Bau , bid for the library project .
According to him, the university’s
Department of Works and Physical
Planning valued the contract at
N344 , 978 ,747 .60 .
He said the contract sum was allegedly increased to N 541 ,019 , 573 .44 by the board and Benton Bau eventually won the bid .
SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the
company re – awarded the contract to De Kingly . But following a
disagreement, De Kingly allegedly
petitioned the university, asking them to stop the project because Benton Bau allegedly defaulted on the contractual agreement.
The Civil Societies Coalition for the
Emancipation of Osun State wrote a petition to the EFCC to investigate the contract .
One of those invited for investigation said , “ We were first interrogated on March 1 . We all went back last Wednesday , March 15 , for another round of interrogation. ”
However , when contacted , the Acting Registrar of UNIOSUN, Gafar Shitu, said he was not aware that some officials of the university were interrogated by the EFCC .
Source: uniosunolofofo
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