Ajatta urges EFCC to probe Mimiko

By The Nation: Leke Akeredolu, Akure

 

Mimiko

A governorship aspirant of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ondo State, Mr. Jaiyeola Ajatta, yesterday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the alleged financial recklessness of the Governor Olusegun Mimiko administration.
He accused the Labour Party (LP)-led government of planning to pile-up debts for an incoming government.
Ajatta spoke in Ikaramu-Akoko, Akoko North West Local Government Area, while receiving defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and LP into the ACN.
He said the state government inherited over N38 billion from the Olusegun Agagu administration and has received over N500 billion from the Federation Account in the past three years, but has nothing to show for it.
Ajatta said: “I do not know why someone who claims to be the ‘master of all’ has refused to better the lot of the masses. But God has exposed how our money has been mismanaged. I commended EFCC for arresting the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC) Chairman Debo Ajimuda over an alleged N61 billion fraud.
“This is how the Mimiko administration has been wasting our funds. The governor’s aides steal our money and spend it on exotic cars and mansion, while thousands of our youths lie idle.
“Mimiko promised to revive all moribund industries, but it has been three years and we are yet to see any of them functioning. He recently claimed that the Tomatos Industry is back to life, but it has been revealed that nothing is going on there.
“Our governor has been spending billions of naira on the Oba-Adesida-Oyemekun Road for three years, yet it has not been completed. When the project was flagged off, he said the road would be rebuilt into six lanes, but where are the six lanes?
“Mimiko has been celebrating some projects, such as the Fiwasaye and Ondo Roads, but these projects belong to the past administration, which had already paid the contractors 70 per cent of the contract sum. All the roads flagged off by the present administration are still on-going, such as the Arakale, Ondo and Owo roads.”
Ajatta urged the people to vote-out the LP in the next election.

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