The economic and financial Crimes Commission has started research into how N11 million allegedly taken by way of every of 33 ex-nearby government caretaker chairmen changed into spent to secure Oyo nation against incursion through Boko Haram insurgents during the 2015 wellknown elections.
top class instances accumulated that the investigation observed a petition submitted to the commission revealing that the cash became dispensed from the nearby authorities Stabilization Account to each of the 33 nearby government areas of the nation.
The petition, which claimed that the ex-council chairmen took the cash among March 23 and 25, 2015, become stated to have additionally indicted the nation authorities and its Ministry of neighborhood government and Chieftaincy matters in the matter.
It changed into withdrawn in coins by the diverse caretaker chairmen and allegedly surpassed over to the then chairman of the affiliation of neighborhood government of Nigeria, ALGON.
initial investigation by means of the EFCC became said to have found out that the previous council chairmen surely withdrew and spent numerous other sums with out due authorisation and right documentation.
Findings by means of premium times showed that the anti-graft business enterprise has mounted a prima facie case in opposition to the former council bosses after their interrogation and they might quickly be arraigned for prosecution.
Punch Newspapers quoted one of the accused former council bosses as saying the cash was meant to preclude attack by means of Boko Haram insurgents in the course of the 2015 trendy elections.
“We had been informed that there was a protection report that Boko Haram ought to strike within the country all through or after the election and that each of the council regions have to make a contribution N11 million and hand it over to the ALGON chairman for anti-terrorist activitities to be coordinated centrally,” he became quoted to have said.
“From the amount, N10 million changed into certainly deposited with the ALGON chairman, while one million naira was left for every of the council chairmen for logistics inside the councils,” ,the ex-chairman turned into stated to have said.
“i've been invited by the EFCC and i've said what I know about the whole trouble.”
He had additionally reportedly said he could not confirm if the money became used for the stated purpose but that his influence changed into that it changed into.
The spokesperson for the Ibadan zonal workplace of the EFCC, Ayo Oyewole, did no longer respond to textual content messages sent to him on the problem.
