Kwara's investigative panel grills Saraki's deputy Ogundeji

Date: 2020-11-27

The Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kwara Government to investigate sales of public properties between 1999 and 2019, has grilled Chief Joel Ogundeji, the former deputy governor to Bukola Saraki, over the ownership of a bungalow at the Ilorin Government Reserve Area (GRA).

Ogundeji told the panel on Thursday in Ilorin that the 4-bed room bungalow along Abdulrasaq Road was built by the state government between 2011 and 2012, after he left office as a deputy governor.

The house, he said, was built for him as part of his entitlement as contained in the State Pension Law 2010 for former governors and their deputies in the state. Ogundeji, who served as a deputy governor from 2003 to 2011, said that the building was erected on the plots of land he personally owned.

When asked if the pension law is justifiable, the former deputy governor answered in affirmation, saying that the office had elevated his status in the society; hence came with more responsibilities.

Ogundeji said that the house had provided a relief for him from visitors who came around to greet him and that one of his sons resides in the building.

When told that the law only recognised him, he replied that the law did not also specify that his dependent could not live in the house.

He told the commission that he received N900,000 monthly as a pension after his eight years in office, compared to the N36,000 he was receiving as a retired civil servant after 35 years in the state civil service.

He, however, agreed with the counsel to the panel, Joseph Bamigboye, that he had just one house before he became a deputy governor, but rose to four within his eight years in office.

When asked if it was fair to receive two pensions from the same coffer, the former deputy governor said there was never a way he could have survived with the N36,000 again after serving as a deputy governor.

Bamigboye, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), asked if the former deputy governor knew that the building was awarded for more N156 million, he said he was never in the picture.

Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq on Aug. 5 set up the Olabanji Orilonishe led-panel to investigate the sale or unlawful acquisition of government properties between May 29, 1999, and May 29, 2019.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Ayekale     Anilelerin     Osinbajo     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Facebook     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Kaiama     University Road     Ayo Adeyemi     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Idowu Laro     Muritala Awodun     Ope Saraki     Oro Grammar School     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Quareeb     Olaosebikan     Peter Amogbonjaye     Teachers Specific Allowance     Simeon Ajibola     Ayodele Shittu     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     College Of Education     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Omu Aran     Mustapha Olanipekun     Eghe Igbinehin     Bond     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Isiaka Gold     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Ilorin South Constituency     Towoju     Omotoso Musa     ASKOMP     National Democratic Congress     Niyi Osundare     CLAY POT     Ibrahim Abiodun     Akorede     Yaru     Budo Egba     Razaq Atunwa     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Plat Technologies Limited     Mubarak Oladosu     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Kwara Hotel     Rotimi Oyedepo     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Tsaragi-Share     General Hospital, Offa     Malete     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Ola Falade     Saliu Oluwole     AbdulHamid Adi     Ballah     Odolaye Aremu     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Magaji Are     Abubakar Aliagan     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Moshood Mustapha     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Khairat Gwadabe     Ridwan Agboola     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Harrison Osauwagboe     Aisha Ahman Pategi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Lawal Olohungbebe     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Oniwasi Agbaye     Shuaibu Yaman     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Okin Biscuit     Kaosarah Adeyi     Shaaba Lafiagi     Ibrahim Oniye     Dorcas Afeniforo     Students Union Government     Moses Salami     Admiralty Villa     Salary     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Ronke Adeyemi     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Kwara State Governor     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Emir Of Shonga     Oloyede     Hassan Saliu     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     NaAllah     Isin     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Amusement Park     Offa Descendants Union     Ilorin Metro Park     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Afonja Descendants Union     Nnazua     Ijakadi     ASMAU PLAZA     Kwabes     IQRA College     Overland     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Kola Ologbondiyan     Moremi High School     Ayo Opadokun     MATTA Girls Foundation     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     MalHub     Iyabo Adewuyi     Kawu Baraje     Ajibike Katibi     Esinrogunjo     Idiagbon     REO CAKES     Arinola Lawal     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Abubakar Imam     Hakeem Lawal     Saidu Isa     Akeem Olatunji     Oba-Solagberu     Asa LGEA School     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Oke-Ode     Post-utme     Kawu     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Okeose Christian Cementary     Lai Mohammed     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Sun Qing Rong     Tanke     Mope Dasuki Belgore