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Budget padding: Indicted ministry officials posted to cash office
Some officials of the Budget Office, who were indicted and sanctioned for their roles in the padding of the 2016 budget, have surreptitiously found their ways back to the newly created cash office of the Ministry of Finance, The PUNCH has learnt.
It was gathered that the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation had redeployed the indicted officials from the Expenditure Department of the Budget Office to the new unit in the finance ministry.
Investigation revealed that 12 out of the 15 persons of the Budget Office, who were redeployed to other ministries following the budget padding scandal, had been posted to the Cash Management Office, located on the sixth floor of the Ministry of Finance by the Department of Employee Mobility in the Office of the HoS.
Punch, December 19
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