Ogun Assembly denies fraud charge against ex-commissioner, others

Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts and Anti-Corruption, led by Damilare Bello, yesterday, said that the invitation extended to the former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Abdul-Waheed Odusile and the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the Governor on Media, Emmanuel Ojo, was not an indictment but rather to seek clarifications on the audit report of the ministry.

Bello made the clarification during the committee’s meeting with the officials of the State Hospitals Management Board at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The committee chairman noted that the sitting was not meant to witch-hunt but to put the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on their toes in the prudent management of government resources.

He recalled that at the last sitting of the committee, there was misinformation in some sections of the media insinuating fraudulent practices, cautioning that the committee had not indicted anyone but merely considered issues raised in the audit reports with a view to addressing them.

He, therefore, urged the public to disregard the scandal rumour, saying that not everything found on the media space might be the right picture of things coming from the Assembly.

He called on Heads of MDAs to work together with the Assembly in blocking all leakages and help to promote accountability and transparency in the running of government in the state.