Start Your Anti-corruption War By Probing Aregbesola’s Financial Recklessness - SDP Tells Buhari

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Start Your Anti-corruption War By Probing Aregbesola’s Financial Recklessness - SDP Tells Buhari

The Osun State chapter of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to start his anti-corruption war in Osun. SDP said Buhari should do this by ordering a thorough investigation into the financial activities of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration.


The SDP made the call in a statement issued on Monday in Osogbo, the state capital. The statement was signed by the state chairman of the party, Mr. Ademola Ishola. According to the SDP, “Buhari would be shocked at the level of financial recklessness in Osun State.” The party said, “We did not find ourselves in this pitiable situation in Osun due to the dwindling revenue from the federal allocation alone, we are where we are today because of the reckless manners our finances had been handled in the last four years. “Now that the new government is settling down for work, we want President Buhari whose party has been at the helms of affairs of this state since November 27, 2010 to help us look into how the over N350bn allocated to the state from the federation account had been spent. “We must know how the over N436bn allocated to the 30 local governments in the state, the N61.7 bn excess crude oil funds and the N14.4 bn SURE-P fund were spent. “Osun people need to know how the over N43.6 bn of Internally Generated Revenue, the over N400bn loans and the N60bn bond were used by Aregbesola’s government. “If President Buhari is serious about his corruption campaign, then he must not spare anyone. He should help us to know how much had gone into several abandoned projects that littered the state and the reasons Aregbesola was unable to pay seven months salaries to the state workers.” The SDP also described the learning tablets known as Opon Imo as a huge fraud. It said, “Morally, is it good for the governor to run the state as a family company? Where are the 150,000 Opon-Imo tablets Aregbesola said will be provided for all students of secondary schools in the state? We doubt if there are 2,000 Opon-Imo tablets in the state today
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