- Safiu Kehinde
As against initial report that 200 Edo state government vehicles are missing, the Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Fred Itua has claimed that the figure is an understatement.
In an interview on Channels TV Lunchtime Politics Programme on Monday, Itua said almost 500 government vehicles are missing.
He, however, disclosed that the committee set up by the state governor, Monday Okpebholo, have recovered 10 vehicles while 21 others have been traced.
“So far, the committee set up to recover vehicles, as of this morning from findings that I made, they had recovered about 10 vehicles,
“From the conversation I had with the chairman of that committee, he said that the initial figure of 200 was understated that there are almost 500 vehicles that are still missing and as of yesterday, they had traced about 21 of those vehicles to the house of a very top appointee of the last government.” Itua said.
According to him, some of the missing vehicles were also traced to a former official of the past government of Godwin Obaseki.
“Then, another -about 15- traced to the house of another [top appointee of Obaseki’s government], and in the coming days, they intend to legitimately recover these vehicles and other assets belonging to the state so that is being held in private hands which ordinarily should not have happened.” He said.