Mrs. Sarah Enoch Adi, the powerful Commissioner for Finance, in Taraba State, has allegedly found herself entangled in examination malpractice.
This is contained in a video obtained by SaharaReporters which showed a candidate caught red handed sitting in an examination hall writing the professional exams of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) for and on behalf of Sarah Enoch Adi
The trending video showed supervisors of the examination questioning the suspect, who identified herself in the footage as Leavitt Felix.
According to the supervisors, records showed that Sarah Enoch Adi was the person for whom she was taking the examination.
This was as it was gathered that the powerful commissioner outsourced the professional exam to the suspect, who identified herself as Felix and confirmed that ‘Sarah Enoch Adi’ was the person on whose behalf she was sitting the exam.
Asked by the supervisors to state her own name, she responded by saying; “Leavitt Felix” and when pressed further on why she was in the exam hall, she simply responded; “Sarah.”
The preliminary interrogation in the video goes further thus; “Mention it louder; you are writing for Sarah Adi, right?” the supervisor asks. “Who is she?”
The second supervisor said; “She has mentioned it. She said Sarah Enoch Adi.”
The supervisors pointed out the discrepancies between the suspect’s statements and the details in their system records, which clearly showed that she had been dishonest about any connection to the civil service.
One of the exam officers said, “Who is the person? Where does the person work? You told me earlier when we were talking. I was trying to confirm your information, you said you work in Ministry of Finance. So, most likely, you mentioned the person’s office.
“Am I correct? So, who now works at Ministry of Finance? So, who was it you linked to the Ministry of Finance?”
But when she shook her head in denial, the exam officer said, “Do you know that what you are telling me is not true? Because what you told me, I confirmed. Oh, when she mentioned it, I checked on her CRM from office, and I confirmed the address to be the address of the person who sent her.
“Because when she mentioned it, I confirmed, okay, fine, good. Before I asked you a question, you saw me going to open my system. I have looked using the student’s registration number. I have the person’s data, everything you were confirming, and that was why I knew.
“As you mentioned, I asked you for the phone number, I asked you when you registered, and everything you gave me didn’t match what is on the record in my system.”
However, the lady claimed she does not personally know Sarah, saying that one Joshua contracted her to sit the exam on her behalf.
“So, you don’t personally know the person. So, who contracted you? Just feel free,” one of the exam officers asked.
Felix again said ‘Joshua’, adding that she didn’t know his surname or where he works.
The supervisors in the footage made it clear that they would forward the information to law enforcement if the suspect did not provide full details.
“All the information we are getting here… we are going to get some double information from the police,” one supervisor warned.
“We want to make it easy. So, if you give us the information, you just go. There is no need to waste our time.”
In August this year, civil servants in Taraba State during their strike urged Governor Agbu Kefas to sack the State’s Accountant General, Mr. Gauis Danjuma, and Commissioner for Finance, Mrs. Sarah Adi, over alleged irregularities in the biometric verification exercise.
They appealed to the governor to appoint competent replacements that would be capable of fixing the damage and preventing a recurrence.
The workers particularly expressed outrage over the exercise which outrightly removed more than 7,000 names, including Directors and Deputy Directors from the State payroll.
Governor Agbu Kefas appointed Mrs Sarah Adi as Commissioner for Finance, Budget, and Economic Planning in Taraba State in August 2023.
