Ghost schools, missing millions and a ministry heist storm
Sources familiar with the simmering internal tensions claim the alleged irregularities could involve substantial amounts of money and may have been enabled by weaknesses in the systems used to identify, register and allocate resources to public schools.
Whispers of a potentially explosive scandal are swirling within the Ministry of Education, where a former senior official is being linked to an alleged scheme involving the allocation of public funds to schools that may not exist.
Sources familiar with the simmering internal tensions claim the alleged irregularities could involve substantial amounts of money and may have been enabled by weaknesses in the systems used to identify, register and allocate resources to public schools.
What is turning the matter into a potentially bigger storm, however, is an apparent falling-out among some ministry employees. Insiders say the disagreements have created fears that individuals with knowledge of the alleged transactions could begin revealing details of how the money was reportedly channelled.
The emerging claims point to a potentially coordinated operation in which fictitious or inactive institutions may have been used to justify allocations, raising questions about who approved the payments, who received the money and what controls were in place to detect the alleged anomalies.
