THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed how
the detained immediate past governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma
Goje,
spent N1.9 billion to print 98,000 copies of dictionary for students in
the state.
The revelation was contained in one of the 18 counts contained in the
money laundering and misappropriation of funds charge slammed on him
and three others.
The trio had also been arrested and detained by the commission for
the commencement of their joint trial at the Federal High Court, Gombe,
today.
In the said count, the anti-corruption commission accused the former
governor and the former chairman of the state’s Universal Basic
Education Commission (UBEC), Alhaji Aliyu el-Nafaty and a contractor,
Alhaji S.M Dokoro, of conniving to steal the state funds through the
N1.9 billion contract, which was executed by just 10 per cent.
It was learnt that the former governor had directed el-Nafaty to give
the said contract to Dokoro, his alleged business associate, to print
one million copies of dictionary for students in the state.
The commission claimed in its findings that only 98,000 copies of the
dictionary were eventually delivered by the contractor and the former
UBEC chairman, with Goje paying in full for the contract.
The alleged offence is said to have been on two fronts; contract inflation and non-execution.
Goje was still being detained in Abuja at press time.
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