Serial Looting Of Oyo Resources Ongoing, APC Chieftain, Alao Alleges

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*asks EFCC to beam searchlight on the state finances since 2019


By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Engineer Oyedele Hakeem Alao on Wednesday raised alarm of an alleged “serial looting of the resources of the state by the present administration in Oyo State

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The APC Chieftain raised the alarm in a statement in reaction to the recent arrest and release of the Oyo state Accountant-General by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Engineer Alao pointed out that the time has come for EFCC  to beam its searchlight on the activities of the present administration in Oyo state since it came on board in 2019, saying, unfolding events in clearly showed that the claim of accountability by the present administration in Oyo state was deceitful going by the recent arrest and release of the Accountant-General, Alhaji Gafar Bello, by the EFCC over alleged N9 billion money laundering.
“The arrest of the Oyo State Accountant-General by the EFCC for allegedly doing the bidding of his master, Governor Seyi Makinde, to launder the sum of N9 billion belonging to the local governments do not come to us as a surprise. For quite some time now, we have consistently been bringing it to the public domain the various underhand dealings the government have been doing to siphon the state resources, ” he said. 

Engineer Alao added, ”  I believe that the time is ripe for the stakeholders and genuine lovers of the state to join the appeal to the EFCC to without further delay beam its searchlight on the horrendous activities of the administration of Governor Makinde identified so far and others yet to be identified  before it runs the state aground and mortgage the future of unborn children in the state.”
Lamenting that at a time the state is reeling under economic crunch with development at its lowest ebb”, he said it was unfortunate that the present administration in the state could be engaging in a deal for their selfish interests, showing that they never meant well for the people of the state
Claiming that “there is no government in the history of the state that has taken the people for a ride like that of Gov Makinde”, Engineer Alao stressed that the huge amount that the EFCC arrested the Accountant-General for could go a long way in tackling many developmental projects lacking across the state 
He alleged further that between 2019 and now, the present administration in the state has continued to devise ways and do things to divert public funds, and that the governor allegedly denied the state of N76 billion World Bank flood project over his insistence that the contract must be handled by his preferred candidate as against those selected by the World Bank itself.
The APC Chieftain stressed that many purported abnormalities detrimental to the interest of the state have been happening under the present administration in the state including alleged ” inflation of cost of projects such as the construction of 76.7 kilometres Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomoso at N43.1billion with a kilometre costing over N560 million; non-disclosure of revenue from the Park Management System (PMS); award of book contracts to contractors from the Niger Deltaand leasing of Agbowo Shopping Complex for 50 years at a cost of N4.9 billion.”
According to Engineer Alao, the present government in Oyo State ”  is allegedly synonymous with litany of atrocities to siphon public funds and that the establishment of the state anti fraud agency is a smoke screen to blind people as the chicken has come to roost with the arrest of the Accountant-General.
“We have no doubt in our mind that Governor Makinde would go down in history as the worst in term of scamming the people by doing the opposite of what he promised most especially running a prudent government to make life meaningful for the people of our dear state. It is quite unfortunate that the governor with his cronies are engaging in an unprecedented and reckless looting of the state resources. Indeed, the insincerity of the government is nothing but mind boggling.

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