Ogun Assembly summons ex-LG boss over alleged sale of govt lands

Ogun State House of Assembly has directed the immediate past chairman of Ewekoro Local Government Area of the State, Hon. Sikiru Adesina, to appear before it next Tuesday, for questioning over alleged sale of government property.

This followed a petition brought before the Assembly’s Committee on Public Funds and Anti-corruption by a group under the umbrella of ‘Concerned Citizen, in the local government.

The Assembly, on Thursday, launched a
probe into allegations of illegal sales of land in the Council area state by Adesina, as the group accused the immediate past Chairman of engaging in unlawful sales of government land, as well as failed accountability, among others.

At the sitting of the Assembly’s Committee on Public Accounts and Anti-corruption held at the Assembly’s complex in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, the Committee led by Hon. Bello Oluwadamilare grilled Head of the Local Government Area (HOLGA), Mrs. Kemi Ogunyewo for close to two hours on the petition for the shady deals and failing to follow due process in sales and lease of the unspecified number of land at Ewekoro LGA.

Ogunyewo, who led four other career officers to the committee’s sitting denied outright sales of the land, maintaining that the affected land was leased to companies and private individuals for 99 years who signed to the payment of a paltry sum of N10,000 per annum on each acre for 99 years.

Despite her defense, the Committee has directed Ogunyewo and other officials to provide the Assembly with details of the list of the entire land that belongs to the local government, either sold, leased, and still owned by the local government, with all necessary documents, list of projects executed by the local government between 2021 and 2024 and cost for each of the projects.

The committee also demanded that the Council’s Engineer should forward to it, details of the inspection reports on the land leased so far.

It demanded that the Council’s Treasurer should provide it with copies of correspondences to banks over their several inactive bank accounts.

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