Alleged graft: Come and answer queries on misappropriation, Ekiti Assembly tells Fayose
...You are conquered clowns, Fayose replies
From Priscilla Ofunre, Ado-Ekiti
Former Governor of Ekiti State , Chief Ayodele Fayose, has been summoned by the state’s House of Assembly to appear before its committee on Public Account over alleged misappropriation of Local Government funds while in office.
Also summoned in addition to the former governor were the former chairman of the Association of Local Government Chairmen (ALGON), Mr. Dapo Olagunju, the former Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Mr. Kola Kolade and all the former 16 Local Government Chairmen.
The Assembly’s decision was as a result of the adoption of the recommendations of the joint Committee of the House on Public Petition and Local Governments that were recently directed to look into a Petition submitted to the Assembly by 8 suspended council chairmen in the State.
The Assembly had in December 2018 suspended the 16 Council Chairmen while 8 were reinstated in July, 2019.
Presenting the report, the Chairman of the Public Petition Committee, Hon. Adegoke Olajide said the remaining eight chairmen on suspension made a plea to the house for the review of their indictment and possible reinstatement.
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He said the Chairmen during an appearance before the Committee confessed to have diverted funds of their councils on monthly basis to an account but said the action was in compliance with the directive of the immediate past governor.
The Public Petition Committee Chairman said the Council chairmen who provided documents to back up their allegations, claimed that the instruction to withdraw the council fund was often passed to them through the former ALGON Chairman, Mr Dapo Olagunju and the commissioner for local government, Mr Kola Kolade.
The Assembly at the plenary also summoned a former Speaker of the House, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, some suspended members of the Fifth Assembly as well as the former Governor over the passage of a ten billion Naira revised Appropriation law towards the end of the tenure of the former Governor.
In a reaction to the development, ex-governor Fayose, through his spokesman, Lere Olayinka, said: ” Former Governor Ayo Fayose will not dignify an assembly of clowns who are under the total control of a governor who is desperately in search of ways to cover his electoral thievery and failure to secure the acceptance of Ekiti people.
” If they have any evidence of financial impropriety against him (Fayose), they can ask the man who used SMS to appoint them to invite EFCC operatives and accommodate them in the Government House as he has done on many occasions. As for us, we are moving on.”
