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Calls for EFCC, Police Intervention
- Safiu Kehinde
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, of condoning and shielding a female Permanent Secretary alleged involved in embezzlement of N300 million from the government’s fund.
APC made the allegation in a statement issued on Friday by the Osun chapter’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi.
According to the statement, the Permanent Secretary had alongside other members of Adeleke’s cabinet taken advantage of the governor to loot public funds.
The Osun APC demanded reason behind Adeleke’s attempt to shield the PM rather than handling her to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
It alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- led administration had made arrangement for her to be repaying the verifiably stolen fund.
“Information has it that some of the political functionaries have been taking an undue advantage of the administrative hollowness of the governor to loot their ministries and work stations.
“We demand: what could have been the reason for the Adeleke administration, which professes, even though falsely, accountability and rule of law to be shielding a female Permanent Secretary who was caught to have embezzled over N300 million government fund?
“A government that claims to be above board would not make the corruption issue against the indicted Permanent Secretary a discreet affair with an arrangement for her to be repaying the verifiably stolen state government money.
“Why is the government afraid to prosecute the indicted Permanent Secretary by the way of handling her to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC)?” The statement partly read.
The Osun APC called on the EFCC and Police intervention over the criminal act which they alleged to be orchestrated by wife of one of the serving commissioners.
“We implore the police and the EFCC to move in without further delay with a view to doing instant justice to the sleaze said to have been perpetrated by wife of one of the prominent serving commissioners in the state.
“Covering up the corruption involving the wife of a cabinet member is an indelible stain on the administration of Governor Adeleke.” The statement read further.