Group alleges illegal monthly sharing of Osun state Money by Aregbesola’s officials

The Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State
(CSCEOS) has uncovered another tactics being employed by top officials
of the state government in sharing of sum of N120m of the tax payers
money inside the bush every month as part of their largesse in playing
along with the governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola in the criminal
mismanagement of the State finances and unconstitutional governing of
the State.

The investigation by CSCEOS revealed that the top four (4) officials
of the present administration in the State and the Labour leaders were
in this shoddy deal on monthly basis inside the bush within the
Government Reservation Area (GRA), Okefia, Osogbo in the State capital
with the aim of circumventing the truth about the financial management
of the state.

Investigation further revealed that they were engaging in this act as
a way to beat the anti-graft agencies officials intelligent in
tracking down the looted funds and reports had it that most of the
share funds were kept inside their various residential buildings and
uncompleted fence buildings, adding that the affected officials also
kept the part of the stolen funds with their relatives.

The names of the officials according to competent sources were the
Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam, Chief Judge
(CJ) of the State, Justice Adepele Ojo, Chief of Staff to the State
Governor, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola and Head of Service, Sunday Olayiwola
Owoeye.

Others who allegedly connived with them were the state labour leaders
led by the NLC Chairman, Jacoob Adekomi, the JNC Chairman Bayo Adejumo
and one John Adeyeye,calling on the concerned security agencies to
carry out sting operation in their various residential building and as
well monitoring their movement henceforth.

It however called on the authorities of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Nigeria(ICAN) and Association of National Accountants
of Nigeria (ANAN)in the country to call their members to order over
alleged plan to help the State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola to
perfect the accounting records of the State in order to save the
present administration under Aregbesola’s watch from any future
corrupt malpractices probe by the concerned anti-graft agencies,saying
that this action was against the ethics of the Accounting profession
in the nation and international best practices by encouraging
corruption in any form.

It described Aregbesola and his co-travelers in mismanagement of the
State funds to the tune of billions of naira as
illegal,unconstitutional, undemocratic, gross irresponsibility and
betrayal of public trust, insisting that all these allegations should
be investigated by the appropriate authority and if found guilty, they
should be sent to jail for financial crimes.

According to the statement issued and signed by CSCEOS’
Chairman,Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman which was made available to newsmen
on Sunday, urged the authorities of the Accounting Institutions to
warn their members to distance theirselves from alleged fraudulent
mindset of Aregbesola led-State government, on the plan to use the
members of the respected professional bodies(ICAN and ANAN) to doctor
all the financial records and documents of the State on or before
first quarters of 2017, insisting that the present crop of Heads of
Three(3) Arms of State government and their labour leaders alike, were
notorious embezzlers that ready to rob the good people of the State of
their commonwealth.

It further condemned the conflicting figures being released by the
State government of the balance sheet of bailout funds accrued to the
State by the Federal Government through the Central Bank of
Nigeria(CBN) in 2015 in respect to the ongoing probe of diversion of
N16.3 billion part of bailout funds by Aregbesola’s administration,
explaining that all the leaders and members of the arms of government
in the State were serial and pathological liars that had mortgaged the
future of the State through their actions and inactions.

It added that all the leaders of the arms of government with the crop
of the labour leaders in the State have soiled their hands in
defrauding the State of her commonwealth, advising the anti-graft
agencies and security agents to beam searchlight on all the leaders of
the State arms of government on how they have been sharing the
patrimony of the people of the State since all this while, calling on
the State government and its agents to come out clean on the total
amount being diverted out of Thirty Five billion naira(N35) bailout
funds accrued to the State in August 2015.