SDGs Office Explains Fund Diversion by Syndicate

The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs) has disclosed that it requested the redeployment of its staff members after it discovered breach of safeguard measures in 2019.

This claim was revealed in a statement the Head of Communications, OSSAP-SDGs, Mr. Rotimi Ajayi issued yesterday.

The statement said the attention of Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, OSSAP-SDGs “has been drawn to a ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordering the forfeiture of a sum of money allegedly diverted from the office by some former staff.

“The management of OSSAP-SDGS will like to state that it requested the redeployment of the staff to their mother agency in 2019 when it was suspected that the safeguard measures put in place by the Office may have been breached in their department.”

The statement added that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire had consequently directed the then Secretary of Programmes, OSSAP-SDGs to ensure thorough investigations of the breach by the necessary authorities.

According to the statement, OSSAP-SDGs will continue to ensure compliance with all necessary financial rules and cooperate with relevant authorities in line with the anti-corruption stance of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.