Tunde Odesola
The Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun
Mimiko, has faulted the report of the Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences Commission which said that the state government
did not utilise N1,537,575.050.32 of the N9.4bn bailout given to it by
the
Federal Government.
Mimiko, who spoke through his
Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, on Tuesday, described
the report by the ICPC as misleading, calling on the anti-corruption
organ to retract the report.
The governor said his administration
added N50m to the N9.4bn it received from the Federal Government before
it could meet the payment of outstanding salary arrears till June 2015.
Mimiko said all relevant documents and
bank transfers on the disbursement of the bailout were presented to the
ICPC officials that came to monitor the disbursement.
He said, “Each claim of payment was
investigated and confirmed to be true by the ICPC investigating team and
at the end of its visit, the government was commended for its
effective, clinical and accurate disbursement of the said bailout.”
The governor stated the labour union leaders in the state were duly briefed and that they approved of the disbursement process.
He thus urged the anti-graft agency to correct the misrepresentation.
Condemning the report, Mimiko said, “It
is unimaginable that a government that is paying the highest minimum
wage to its workers in the country against all odds, would divert a loan
given it to enable it fulfil its monthly obligation to the same
workers, following the near collapse of the nation’s economy which has
made the obligation challenging.”
Source: PUNCH
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