Former Director-General, Ogun State Bureau of Lands and Survey, Mr Biyi Ismail, has been accused of financial infractions.
The financial infractions, DAILY POST learnt, was contained in the audit report on the records of the bureau, from 2015 to 2019.
The Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts and Anti-corruption stated this in a summon on Thursday.
The anti-corruption committee has, therefore, summoned Ismail to appear before it on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.
This summon, the lawmakers said, was necessary to address some unresolved financial infractions contained in the 2015-2019 audit report of the Bureau of Lands and Survey.
The Chairman of the committee, Musefiu Lamidi, while issuing the directive, revealed that it was in continuation of the consideration of the 2015-2019 audit report of the Bureau.
Musefiu said the committee had earlier stayed action on the bureau’s audit report because the former Director-General refused to honour the first invite on the excuse that he was abroad during the COVID19 pandemic.
Lamidi, while issuing the invitation at the Assembly Complex, stated that Mr Ismail had not reported back to the committee since his arrival in Nigeria.
The House Committee is seeking clarifications on some grey areas, asking “for relevant documents relating to all costlines including those containing the construction of ICT Infrastructure running into over N400m carried out in 2016 as well as the list of all non-committed acquisitions along Abeokuta-Sagamu.”
The committee Chairman also demanded for “the list of land allocation at Flowergate between 2015 and 2019 as well as that of all commercial allocation at River-View in Isheri for the same period.”
The audit queries, he said, also included wrong classification of expenditure, keeping of dormant account to the tune of N9.4m as well as lack of pre-audit checks by the internal auditor amongst others which were against due process.
Lamidi observed that the revenue of the Bureau dropped by 70 percent from N10.6bn to N3.1bn, when considering 2018 against 2019 report.
This according to him, signified a “70% reduction from the various revenue streams, pointing out that the large reduction on the revenue was on plot allocation and layout fees which the Bureau headed by the former DG needed to clarify.”
