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PUBLISHED 12-2-07 ----- The humiliation is bad enough. But the damage that has been done to Kern County government’s credibility and public trust is the real tragedy. A former, powerful Kern County department head has gone missing, just as the Board of Supervisors and state officials want to question him about his use of taxpayers’ dollars. Last week, Kern County supervisors directed their attorneys and staff to play a twisted version of “Where’s Waldo” — find former Public Health Director B.A. Jinadu and make him pay back $2,325 of the county money he spent on international cell phone calls, mostly to Africa. Jinadu was born and raised in Nigeria. Jinadu’s failure to reimburse the county for those calls was just one of many questionable findings in an audit conducted of the Health Department after Jinadu quit last summer. Jinadu quit to take a job with San Diego. But San Diego withdrew its offer after officials discovered he...
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