More Troubles for Omisore as EFCC Uncovers N60bn ‘Budget Padding’ Document

A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore may be in for more troubles in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as detectives of the commission have recovered a sensitive document from his Abuja home.The recovered document, according to

EFCC sources shows how N60 billion was voted for curious overhead expenses for some senators and members of the House of Representatives in the Sixth Assembly.It would be recalled that Omisore was a member of the Sixth Senate where he served as the Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Appropriation between 2007 and 2011.According to the source, the EFCC is probing the document to identify the senators and members of the House of Representatives who benefited from the money, adding that detectives stumbled on the document in Omisore’s bedroom when they went in search of the house.The source said: “In the course of searching Omisore’s residence at 1, Kainji Crescent in Maitama, Abuja, we stumbled on a document on budget padding worth about N60 billion for some Senators and House of Representatives.“Immediately we picked the document, Omisore was a bit concerned. He asked our operatives to limit their investigation to only the N1.31 billion from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) but we insisted that we are interested in the document. “A crack team is already looking into the details of the padding of the budget and the affected Senators and Representatives.“Certainly, as a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, we expect him to speak on the document.Also, the EFCC has reportedly written the management of the National Assembly to explain why Omisore was paid the sum of N2.5 billion when he was serving as a Senator.According to the EFCC source, the letter was written after it was discovered that Omisore’s account was credited with the money.However, the management of the National Assembly was said to have written back telling the commission that Omisore was not awarded any contract or engaged for any service to have warranted the payment of such money.
Source : Ripples Nigeria