1, 022 people have fake letters of appointment in Gombe – EFCC

No fewer than 1,022 people are in possession of fake letters of employment across the 11 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Gombe State.
Aminu Aliyu, Head of Operations, Gombe Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), made this known to newsmen in Gombe on Thursday.
Aliyu explained that the agency unraveled the scam during verification of appointments.
“The state government solicited our participation which we gladly obliged. Our officers discovered that 1, 022 people were issued fake letters of appointment across all the local government areas of Gombe state’’, he said.
The EFCC official said that each candidate involved paid between N120, 000 and N150, 000, depending on the ministry of choice. “This amounts to N13.162 million,” he said.
According to him, 16 people arrested in connection to the crime will soon be arraigned.
“Those arrested and interrogated will soon be prosecuted, while four business centres involved in production of fake documents had been sealed’’, he said.
Aliyu also said that EFCC recovered N968, 000 from a wonder bank operating without license in Gombe.
Meanwhile, the North-West zone EFCC has recovered at least N54, 535,651,183.74 and another $622,200.00 (N190.1m) within the last 10 months.

Gombe to spend over N44m on solar electrification project

Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo

 

Gombe State Government has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding in partnership with the Bank of Industry (BOI) to execute solar electrification projects in rural areas spread across the 11 Local Governments of the state.

Speaking in Gombe shortly after signing of the MOU, Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, said the effort was born out of government’s desire to fast-track wide spread socio-economic development in the state, and improve the people’s living standard.

He said the first phase of the project, which would be carried out in two communities, was approved at the cost of over N44 million as total fund, which would be paid in counterpart funding arrangement with the BOI.

Earlier, Mr. Waheed Olagunju, Managing Director, BOI Of Industry, said BOI is collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to support underserved power communities in Nigeria.

“As the World transits from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the challenges of access to clean electricity has remained a focus of global policy debates and national policy planning,” he said.