By Ike Uchechukwu

CALABAR— Following rumours of financial impropriety at the Cross River State office of State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB,  Chairman of the Board, Dr Stephen Odey, has said that nobody within or outside the state’s SUBEB has accessed its funds.

Odey, yesterday, in Calabar while briefing newsmen on the progress the Board has made since he assumed office as the chairman, said that it was necessary for the public to know the progress they had made over time.

He said: “When I came in, I discovered that Cross River State has not been able to access its grant from 2012-2015 from the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC. N3.8 million was approved by the governor for us to be able to access our grant and as I speak, we are ready to carry out projects.

“Nobody has accessed this money as everything has been properly laid down in our action plan which contains the project to be initiated in the state and this covers from 2012 to 2015 and it is a legal documents that is biding as no kobo can be taken out without being monitored by the Abuja office.”

According to him, “Nobody can use SUBEB money outside what has been appropriated and approved and every project we do is jointly monitored by UBEC and we wrote to all the security and graft agencies because we know that some contractor may want to raise some spurious allegation.’’