Ondo SUBEB Accused of Stonewalling Auditors, Lawmakers for Five Years Running by

The Common Primary Schooling Board (SUBEB) in Ondo State has spent half a decade disregarding queries from state auditors and directives from the Home of Meeting, in line with the newly launched 2025 Auditor-Basic’s report — a sample that has reignited worries about how the board handles public cash.

The report reveals a backlog of issues going again to 2021 that stay unresolved, even after repeated follow-ups from each the Auditor-Basic’s workplace and the Meeting’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

A piece of the report coping with issues carried over from 2021 via 2024 notes that a number of points flagged within the unique 2021 audit are nonetheless pending.

The timeline specified by the report reveals the PAC first reviewed the Auditor-Basic’s 2019 and 2020 findings in July 2022 and ordered SUBEB to resolve every part that had been flagged. The Auditor-Basic’s workplace says it adopted up with formal reminder letters in December 2022 and once more in April 2023, referencing the committee’s resolutions — however obtained no reply from the board on both event.

Lawmakers didn’t let the matter drop. In March 2026, the PAC took up the Auditor-Basic’s 2021, 2022, and 2023 stories and this time instructed SUBEB to usher in the Auditor-Basic’s workplace to bodily examine excellent initiatives. In line with the report, that inspection nonetheless hasn’t occurred as a result of the board by no means made preparations for it.

Lacking contract paperwork
Auditors additionally say SUBEB has failed handy over documentation for contracts tied to UBEC/SUBEB capital initiatives from 2020 and 2021. A proper request for these information went out in April 2023, however the Auditor-Basic’s workplace stories it by no means received a response. A second reminder despatched in late April 2025 met the identical silence, in line with the report.

Taken collectively, the findings level to a sustained sample: audit queries left unanswered, contract information by no means produced, and legislative directives for undertaking inspections ignored — regardless of a number of rounds of stress from each the Auditor-Basic and the state Meeting’s oversight committee.

This isn’t the primary pink flag raised about SUBEB’s spending in Ondo. SaharaReporters beforehand reported that despite the fact that the state authorities stated it had disbursed roughly N14.7 billion for fundamental schooling via SUBEB between 2024 and 2025, residents of Arimogija in Ose Native Authorities Space described New Church Major College as badly uncared for — elevating questions on the place the cash truly went.