Abayomi Fakeye
The Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Aare Tunde Alabi has condemned the petition and eventual reports that,the state
government is making illegal deductions from federal allocations to local government areas in the state.
According to Aare Alabi all deductions from the local government allocations were those legally recommended and agreed to by the council chairmen in the
state.
"This clarification become necessary in other to ensure that the citizenry of the state including those in diaspora were not misinformed by the malicious and
satanic allegations and petitions by disgruntled politicians in the State". Aare said.
Also,Commissioner for Information and Orientation,Mr.Sina Kawonise dismissed the allegations against the state government saying they were all politically motivated.
According to Kawonise,the accusations were masterminded by desperate politicians seeking elective positions in 2011. "The allegations are untrue. It is all about the politics of 2011 and who becomes the governor,and who gets what. It is a game plan by our people in Abuja who will write frivolous petition and rush to the press. You cannot build something on nothing.
"That was how they alleged that the governor collected N30bn from land bureau when in actual fact we did not realize more than N1.2bn I 2009 when they said
the money was stolen. That was after they said the N30bn was stolen from the local government allocation,whereas total allocation to the state and the LGs was just N13.5bn in 2009.
All the facts are there. Even the same EFCC released the Director-General, Bureau of land who they kept for some weeks when they could not find anything against him. "That was how our people started before the
2007 election. It is just political game", he concluded. Note for the net sir, any comments?
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