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The programme’s Strategic Communication Committee (SCC) says a team of Auditors have uncovered a massive payroll fraud in the Presidential Amnesty Programme .
The SCC Chairman, Nature Dumale Kieghe, lamented that it was discovered that an individual was collecting the stipends meant for 33 persons.
He said this at the weekend in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Dumale, an ex-agitator, said about 513 persons were linked to multiple payments, adding that the new management of PAP was poised to reposition the scheme for optimum performance.
He explained that following the development, the Interim Administrator, Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu, initiated a verification of all PAP beneficiaries as part of the ongoing investigation.
He explained that some beneficiaries had yet to receive their monthly stipends because of the audit and Ndiomu’s efforts to clean the payroll, adding that all affected and genuine outstanding stipends would be paid after verification was completed.
Dumale said upon assumption of office, the amnesty boss renegotiated all existing contracts with vendors and in the process saved N1.5 billionn for PAP.
He said: “Ndiomu initiated an internal and external audit of PAP’s database. The auditors uncovered monumental fraud, especially in the payment of stipends where an individual is receiving stipends meant for 33 persons through fraudulent means.
“The proactive interim administrator has ordered immediate verification of all delegates to be carried out next week. Delegates are to rest assured that whoever is verified will be paid immediately.
“Upon assumption of office, Gen Ndiomu (retd) initiated plans to renegotiate the existing contracts with vendors. In the process, he has been able to save over N1.5 billion”.
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