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Former spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari and Human rights activist, Yinka Odumakin, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleging financial recklessness and corruption against Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.
In a petitioned published in Punch newspaper, Odumakin said
Aregbesola has put the state in abject poverty and called for a forensic
audit of the Osun State government accounts.
“In addition, the state is littered with abandoned projects even though loans were secured by this administration to execute them. Today, our dear state has become the embodiment of lack, poverty, purposelessness, wickedness and insensitivity of political leaders of the highest order in the country” the petition noted.
Odunmakin also said Osun has become the poorest state in Nigeria and urged the EFCC to uncover the states funds.
Reacting to the petition, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, Director of Research, Strategy and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State said state government owed only N87bn, and it can account for all the state’s fund.
“The entire debt of the state government currently stands at N87bn. We took over government in November 2010 and between November and December, we got N5.6bn. In 2011, we got N59.2bn. In 2012, we got N75.6bn. In 2013, we got N104.2bn. In 2014, we got N49bn and so far this year, we got N24bn.
“All these monies were received as federal allocation, from budget augmentation, from the Excess Crude Account and other sources of income. Within these periods, we spent about N196bn on salaries, pensions and other expenditure. So, how have we mismanaged the state?” he queried.
Former spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari and Human rights activist, Yinka Odumakin, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleging financial recklessness and corruption against Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.
Yinka Odumakin
“In addition, the state is littered with abandoned projects even though loans were secured by this administration to execute them. Today, our dear state has become the embodiment of lack, poverty, purposelessness, wickedness and insensitivity of political leaders of the highest order in the country” the petition noted.
Odunmakin also said Osun has become the poorest state in Nigeria and urged the EFCC to uncover the states funds.
Reacting to the petition, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, Director of Research, Strategy and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State said state government owed only N87bn, and it can account for all the state’s fund.
“The entire debt of the state government currently stands at N87bn. We took over government in November 2010 and between November and December, we got N5.6bn. In 2011, we got N59.2bn. In 2012, we got N75.6bn. In 2013, we got N104.2bn. In 2014, we got N49bn and so far this year, we got N24bn.
“All these monies were received as federal allocation, from budget augmentation, from the Excess Crude Account and other sources of income. Within these periods, we spent about N196bn on salaries, pensions and other expenditure. So, how have we mismanaged the state?” he queried.
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