It was discovered in audit that two retired staff of the board were retained as contract staff despite being retired. According to the information contained in the nominal roll of the board presented to us in audit, one of the staff involved Ngozi Isaac, was due for retirement on the 27th November, 2021. She is currently the Head of works department, which was a post she held before retirement. Despite being retired, the board approves and authorizes expenditures she made before approval, as could be seen in s/no. 8, schedule for ‘payment before approvals”.
Management opined that her being retained was as a result of a capable hand to carry out her duty diligently as supposed. It is inconceivable that none of the (8) eight staff under her could assume her duty in the board; audit wonders what the term and conditions would be and the possibility of achieving a task she could not do in all her years of service within a short time. This shows her level of incompetence and failure as a leader in the first place.
Another incident is the case of a driver, Nwafor Joseph who was retired on 27th September, 2014 but is still working with the board till date.