The Forum of Chairmen of Oyo State Local Governments has denied reports that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) is investigating four of its members over alleged diversion of funds.
The denial was made via a statement signed by the Forum’s Chairman, who is also the Chairman of Ibadan South-East Local Government, Alawode Emmanuel Oluwole.
Accordingto him, contrary to some reports in the media, the ICPC is currently investigating the purchase of excavators for the local government councils under the immediate past administration of the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi.
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Recall that some media reports over the weekend had alleged that the ICPC was investigating four council chairmen in Oyo State over alleged diversion of funds from excavator services.
The chairmen mentioned in the report were those of Ibadan North-West, Ramoni Olanrewaju Adepoju; Ibadan South-West, Kehinde Adeyemi Akande; Ibadan North-East, Ibrahim Akintayo and Ibadan South-ast, Alawode Emmanuel.
The statement read, “We promptly told the ICPC that the excavators were purchased by the immediate past government in Oyo State and that we (the current council chairmen) did not meet records of the purchase in our councils.
“During the visit to Abuja, the chairmen were asked why it cost the previous government N75m to purchase each of the excavators when each of the machines should not cost more than N21m.
“We told the ICPC that we were not there during the purchase of the excavators and that we didn’t meet any document concerning the purchase in the councils. Within two hours, we were done with our statements and we left the ICPC headquarters.”
