The Ondo State Common Primary Schooling Board (SUBEB) has continued to disregard audit queries and directives issued by the Ondo State Home of Meeting for 5 years, in line with the 2025 Report of the State Auditor-Normal, elevating recent considerations over accountability and transparency within the administration of public funds.
The audit report disclosed that a number of unresolved points courting again to 2021 stay unattended to regardless of repeated reminders from the Workplace of the State Auditor-Normal and resolutions of the Home of Meeting’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Underneath the part titled “Excellent Issues From 12 months 2021 To 2024 Auditor-Normal’s Report Not Attended To,” the report acknowledged that “some points had been raised within the Auditor-Normal’s report for 12 months 2021 in paragraph 1.0 to 4.0.”
In keeping with the report, the Public Accounts Committee of the Ondo State Home of Meeting thought-about the Auditor-Normal’s studies for 2019 and 2020 between July 5 and July 12, 2022, and directed the Board to handle all points recognized.
It acknowledged that “the Public Accounts Committee of the Ondo State Home of Meeting, having thought-about the Auditor-Normal’s studies for years 2019-2020 between fifth and twelfth July, 2022, mandated the Board to take care of the problems raised by the Auditor-Normal.”
The Auditor-Normal famous that past earlier correspondence, reminder letters had been despatched to the Board based mostly on the committee’s resolutions via letters referenced GMD/SUBEB/CP/SA/VOL.IV/269 dated December 9, 2022, and GMD/SUBEB/CP/SA/VOL.IV/270 issued in April 2023.
Regardless of these directives and reminders, the report acknowledged that “no response had been obtained by this Workplace on the problems as on the time of this report.”
The report additional revealed that the Public Accounts Committee revisited the Auditor-Normal’s studies for 2021, 2022 and 2023 in March 2026 and once more issued directives to the Board.
In keeping with the report, “the Home Committee mandated the Board to ask the State Auditor-Normal’s Workplace to hold out its statutory inspections on excellent tasks.”
Nonetheless, the Auditor-Normal mentioned the Board did not comply, noting that “up until now, no association had been made by the Board for the conduct of the bodily verification.”
The report additionally accused the Board of failing to supply contract information requested by auditors.
It disclosed that “some contracts and provides had been awarded by the Board on UBEC/SUBEC 2020 and 2021 Capital Tasks.”
In keeping with the report, the contract paperwork had been formally requested via a letter bearing reference quantity GMD/SUBEB/CP/SA/VOL.IV/270 dated April 12, 2023.
The Auditor-Normal, nevertheless, acknowledged that “up until now, there has not been any response from the Board.”
The report additional revealed that one other reminder was issued practically two years later.
It acknowledged that “on twenty ninth April, 2025, a letter reference quantity GMD/SUBEB/CP/SA/VOL.IV/273 was despatched to the Board as a reminder on the necessity to attend to the problems contained within the report of the State Auditor-Normal because it impacts the Board.”
Regardless of the recent reminder, the report added that “up until now, no response has been obtained from the Board.”
The findings recommend a chronic failure by the Ondo State Common Primary Schooling Board to reply to audit observations, produce requested contract documentation or adjust to legislative directives geared toward enabling statutory inspection of tasks, regardless of repeated interventions by each the Workplace of the Auditor-Normal and the Public Accounts Committee of the Ondo State Home of Meeting.
Beforehand, SaharaReporters reported that regardless of claims by the Ondo State Authorities that it had launched about N14.7 billion for fundamental training via the State Common Primary Schooling Board (SUBEB) between 2024 and 2025, residents of Arimogija in Ose Native Authorities Space mentioned New Church Major College remained in a stunning state of neglect, elevating questions on how public training funds had been being translated into actual infrastructure on the bottom.
