unpaid teachers are supposed to be paid by the 1st Defendant
Bashar Garba while others are supposed to be paid by the 2nd
Defendant Kabiru Bello.
Both of them confessed to us various sums of money they
misappropriated belonging to the unpaid teachers. After the
confession of both 1st and 2nd Defendants i.e. Bashar Garba and
Kabiru Bello respectively, we wrote our report and sent same to
SUBEB.”
Under cross examination, PW2 in person of Aminu Abdullahi, testified as
follows:PW2:
Finance Officer and Education Secretary are the only signatories
to the Sokoto South Local Government Education Authority’s
Account. I know only bank payment Mode by which payment
must be done through individuals’ accounts. We use documents
such as counterfeit, cheques, payment vouchers, bank statement
among others to base our findings. Our report implicated the
Education Secretary of Sokoto South Local Government
Education Authority. It is the responsibility of the 1st Defendant
as Accountant Salary to keep records including schedule of
payments in addition to any other duty the Education Secretary
may assign to him.
Pw3 (After affirmation): My name is Mohammed Yusuf. I am a Primary
School teacher under Sokoto South Local Government
Education Authority attached to Yakubu Mu’azu Science Model
Primary School. I am an Arabic Teacher. I know the Defendants
and they also know me. The two are Finance Department
Officials of our LGEA. I am one of the Primary school teachers
that were not paid their salary of March, 2017. I made a
Complaint to our Education Secretary and discovered that we are
many and as a result we made a Complaint at SUBEB where we
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