By Peter Onyekachukwu 
By Peter Onyekachukwu, Akure
ONDO: The Ondo State Public Complaints Financial Crimes and Anti-Corruption Commission (OSPFACC) on Tuesday said it had launched investigation into an alleged diversion of N800 million worth of shares in the Ondo State Oil Producing Development Area Commission (OSOPADEC).
According to the anti-graft commission, the shares were allegedly spent by some former members of broad of OSOPADEC, who served in different capacities a few years back.
The secretary of the anti-graft agency, Adewole Adeyeye, disclosed this in Akure, the state capital.
He explained that the suspected board members were being quizzed, mostly especially over their level of involvement in the alleged financial racketeering.
Mr Adeyeye, who refused to mention the names of those being investigated by the anti-graft agency, no stone would be left unturned to unravel how the shares were spent between the suspects.
“We have begun their probe after the petition written to our office on the shares that was spent by the board members.We are talking about over N800 million that belongs to the commissio,” he said.
Earlier, the anti-graft confirmed the case of one Mr Femi Ibikunle, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of Okolere Agbe Environmental Hospitality Management, who was ccused of failing to pay over 200 workers of his company.
The workers, who were cleaners, were deployed to the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo( UNIMED), and were being paid N12,000 per month.
Mrs Victoria Iyanuoluwapo, one of the workers, said that she was being owed 7-month salary
Iyanuoluwa explained that she was employed in 2020 until she left the job in 2022 because of irregularities in the payment of her salaries.
Similarly, Mrs Olamide Alade, another worker, said that she left the job after being owed 6 months’ salaries with the insistence of Mr Ibikunle that he could not pay the salaries.
Alade stated that the affected workers approached the anti graft agency for justice, adding that they did not want to take law into their hands in getting their monthly dues.
“And we did not want to take the law into our hands, so we have to report his case,” She said.
Mr Adeyeye said the commission got wind of the case through whistblowers who reported the fraud going on the company.
While explaining that it would ensure proper investigation, the secretary of the anti-graft said justice would be served to anyone found guilty in the cases.
“So, permit me not to go into details of the cases because we are still going on with our investigation,” he added.