EXCLUSIVE: HOW IBIKUNLE AMOSUN LED GOVERNMENT IMPOVERISHED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AREAS DURING HIS 8YEARS RULE - OGUN ALGON

The Ogun State chapter of Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) during the regime of Ibikunle Amosun has accused the former governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun of diverting local govt revenue, fraud and misappropriation of local government funds during his 8 year tenure as the governor of Ogun State.

This was contained in a release made available to our correspondent yesterday when the association reacted to the suspension of all local government elected officials and appointees by the Hon Suraj Adekumbi led House of Assembly over allegation of fraud and misappropriation of funds.

In a release signed by ALGON, it was revealed that the administration of former governor Amosun starved all the Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas of funds, diverted all revenue of local governments and LCDAs, diverted local government allocation of the 20 local governments for over 32 months.

It was also revealed that former governor Ibikunle Amosun defrauded the local government by taking 40% of their allocations all in the name of joint project account with no projects to show in many of the local government except in few local government in ogun central (Abeokuta North, Abeokuta South and Obafemi Owode).

ALGON Ogun chapter also accused the speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Suraj Adekumbi of being selfish and self centered by leading a rubber stamp assembly of illegality.

The association expressed concern how Speaker Adekunbi who "know for a fact that the Government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun failed to fund but starved the LGAs and LCDAs to it's present poorly position" will go ahead and pronounce suspension of the duly elected council administrators.
Part of the statement reads ". That the Ogun state House of Assembly led by Rt Hon Ruraj Adekunbi connived with the Government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun to take away all revenue belonging to the LG and LCDA which create inability to generate revenue for the needed development for LG and LCDA, the statutory revenue includes:

i. Signage
ii. Park and Garages
iii. Tenement rates
iv. Market ticketing
v. Land use charges
vi. Mask and many others"
The group of Local Governments bosses revealed further that they received only paltry sum of N2, 000,000 monthly which was only paid for seven months in the entire thirty-two months spent so far.
The ALGON later call on the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun to withhold his assent to the bill and House of Assembly resolutions allegedly seeking to suspend the elected officials at the grassroots.