Oyinlola’s Free Trade Zone Fraud: Osun Awards N200m For Flower Planting
Jun 3rd, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: Front Page Story
DESPITE the fact that Osun State under the watch of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola was busy sweating it out to convince the people that paucity of fund was the driving force behind its desperation for N18.38 billion bank loan, OSUN DEFENDER has uncovered another mega-fraud at the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) located in Osogbo, Osun State capital.
Investigations revealed that the mega-fraud was another conduit pipe that has been draining the lean coffer of the state in the last seven years, for a number of contractors in collaboration with the political actors in the state have defrauded the state to the tune of several billions of naira.
According to a document at the disposal of OSUN DEFENDER, landscaping of one of the top priority projects of the governor, Free Trade Zone, was awarded for N200 million, but the people in charge only released N70 million to the contractor, dropping the name of the governor as the prime beneficiary of the balance.
The contractor who hails from Ayedaade Local Government Council Area of the state was said to have been turned off with the N70 million released to him, left his facilitator in annoyance, grumbling that the people who have nothing to do with the landscaping had cornered N130 million already; leaving him and his workers with N70 million to do the landscaping.
It was gathered that over N50 million was allegedly channeled to the private account of the governor as a prime beneficiary of the bazaar, while some officers at the Bureau of Public Procurement and General Services smiled to the bank with about N50 million booty.
It was gathered that some politicians who facilitated the contract got close to N30 million, amongst which the contactor had allegedly tipped to ensure that the contract was not given to other contractors in the process.
According to an investigation conducted by OSUN DEFENDER, the contractor, out of annoyance over the sharing formular, has refused to mobilize to the site up till the time of filing this report.
In a related development, findings have further revealed that the governor had earlier allegedly approved N800 million for the planting of flowers on the road divider between Akoda to Orita-Olaiya in Osogbo, Osun State capital, the project that eventually became a stillbirth as the flower already planted withered away in no time.
A source that was privy to the fraud called landscaping, confided in OSUN DEFENDER that some projects of little significance have become conduit pipes where the resources of the state are been drained.
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