Saddening: Woman returned N1.8m mistakenly paid into her account, gets query from Kogi government.

 

Amidst the burning effect of recession in the country, Mrs Husseina Mohammed, a civil servant in Kogi state attached to the Teaching Service Commission will be compensated for her honesty in returning the sum of N1.8M mistakenly paid into her account gets query from the state government for allegedly misinforming the public about the excess salary mistakenly paid into her account.

This sanction came as a result of the instruction given by the State Auditor General, Alhaji Yusuf Okala who noted that Mrs Mohammed misinformed the public that she had returned the money to the state treasury even when she did not receive any alert to confirm such transactions.

Okala explained that the Husseina Mohammed, only returned N1.6M on 3rd July this year out of the N1.8M she claimed to have returned six weeks earlier. Okala said, “the information has caused confusion in the system”.

He also instructed that her salary be placed on hold over the wrong information she given to the committee.

The chairman, Salary Reconciliation Committee, John Alayi earlier explained that the sum of N1,813,186.98 was paid in excess to Mrs Mohammed because the statement from Teaching service commission mistakenly placed her on level sixteen while she was actually on grade level nine.

Alayi further said.

“The committee calculated the difference between grade level nine and grade level sixteen and paid the supposed arrears to the officers account but later discovered that one Hussein Mohammed also a staff of the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) was the one on grade level sixteen and not Mrs Husseina Mohammed.”

On the other side, Mrs Mohammed said she received an alert of her salary in excess and immediately filled a teller for the transfer to the state treasury on 22nd May 2017.

 

Meanwhile, in a latest, development, the family of Mrs Husseinna Mohammed have expressed disappointment in the government’s reaction to Mohammed’s good deed,   insisting that the allegation against her has brought shame to the family.

A close family source disclosed that Mrs Husseina Mohammed has been barred from speaking to the press or risk further punishment from the state Government.

A family source also said the money was paid to the state coffers but were surprised that weeks later the cashier who performed the transaction failed to confirm that a particular digit was missing in the account number which the money was paid in.

” We are surprised that they are coming up with this at this time that the couple honourably returned money mistakenly paid into their account. The husband has not been paid for more than 15 Months yet they didn’t bother to withhold the huge sum of money despite the current hardship.

” This family barely feed three square meal just because of the harsh economy and the non-payment of salary in Kogi state. From what I know, they have been surviving through the wife even though the husband is also working with the state government.”

“Are we supposed to blame them or blame the cashier?. The government should also blame their personnel for this defects instead of suffering an innocent soul when she made the state proud. It is unfortunate that they are getting this at this time instead of being honoured for their honesty. ”

“Going by what is happening, if something of such happens again, people will be scared to come out and return such money because they don’t want to be disgraced. The news is everywhere now that they have issued her a query and her salary be placed on hold. Let be sincere, if you are the one, will you be happy? Am really disappointed I must confess.” The family source disclosed.

 

In June during an interview with journalists in Lokoja, Mrs Mohammed said that she returned a total of N 1,813,186.98 to the state coffers credited to her account.

She explained how the money entered into her account. “One morning, while shopping, my phone beeped, indicating that my salary account domiciled with Zenith Bank has been credited with 1,813,186.98.

“Immediately I saw this I read it over and over again before calling my husband and we both agreed to return the money back to the government’s treasury.

She also said even her husband, an employee of the Teaching Service Commission in Lokoja, was one of those affected by the just concluded screening exercise in the state. she disclosed that for 15 months, he had not received any salary from the government.

 

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