WE WILL DRAG MIMIKO TO EFCC IF…
-ACN Youths brags to publish looting by political appointees.
...Stop the N100bn Mimiko dangerous loan- Abayomi raises alarm
Coalition of over 25 Youths under the aegis of Democracy Fighters for Good Governance [DFFGG] affiliated to The Grasroots Mobilisers for the Action Congress of Nigeria Party [ACN] Ondo State has vowed that nothing will stop them from dragging the state governor, Dr.Olusegun Mimiko before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [ EFCC] over financial recklessness and profligacy. The Coordinator of the group, Comrade Dada Olawale Eminence warned that if Gov.Mimiko and his cabinet members dont stop the frivolous spending of the state resources and allocation profligately on Irrational celebrations saying they will be left with no other option than to drag him before EFCC.
Comr’d Eminence challenged Dr Mimiko as the state governor to publish without delay the statement of the state account since the inception of his administration.
On behalf of the masses of Ondo State,Comrd Eminence gave the Mimiko led administration in the state a one week ultimatum to make public the statement of account of the state while warning that failure to meet these demands The Grassroots Mobiliser will live by its name by calling for a mass action against the government of Labour Party [LP].
The articulate youth leader gave the warning during the week while speaking at the June 12 Anniversary Programme held at the ACN party secretariat at Akure, the Ondo State capital that Ondo State Youths have been having sleepless night over the wasteful manner in which the state government is spending the state resources.
“We have an in depth and exhaustive list of massive looting by Governor Mimiko’s cronies and political compatriots which we may publish soonest with pictorial and documentary evidences of all their looting” Eminence boasted
The youth leader pointed to the Governor spending illegally and on celebration that was uncalled for saying that Ondo State is a state that has been endowed with humanitarian resources in which the total citizens of the state needs to be enjoying till eternity but due to official recklessness and the ineptitude of the political office holders made 70% of the general population to wallowing in penury in a state that is ranked sixth among the Oil Producing states.
Comrd Eminence also said that the profligacy spending of Dr Mimiko and his political associate since their assumption into office on Feb,2009 spent over N568 million to celebrate their one year in office flying in his friends, colleagues, and hanger-on’s from all over the globe at the expense of the state.
The Youth leader also noted that if this celebration should persist for all the four years on yearly basis it would gulp the sum of N2.2billion, which worth’s more than the budgeted allocation for some states for 2months.
He condemned the present government for engaging frivolous spending leaving the immediate needs of the people saying ‘that successful public administrator like Governor Fashola of Lagos does not need to spend N568million on propaganda before Awori and the Egun masses of Lagos before the whole world will know he is doing excellently well.
The Youth leader revealed that “having considered this profligacy spending, we have concluded our plan to petition EFCC and approach the court of Law to stop further plundering of the state funds by the present administration.
“We require Mr. Governor to please publicize our allocation so far received from February 2009 to May 2011 and how the N38billion inherited from Gov.Olusegun Agagu’s administration in the coffers of the state was spent.
Eminence concluded that it is criminal for the present government in Ondo State to have denied the people their right to know the state of account of the state, quoting Section 125 of the amended 1999 Constitution that, the Accountant General of the state should at least on yearly basis publish and submit the annual report, statement of account, financial statement to the House of Assembly, which is supposed to be audited for credibility and truth for debate, if that has been done, by now all these profligacy’s would have been clearly identified”
The June 12 event attracted youths across the state and from the neighbouring states had Dr.Olu Agunloye as the Special Guest of Honour ,and Hon Otito Atikase as the Guest Speaker among others.
In a related development the Okeagbe born fiery lawyer and the leader of ACN in Ondo State, Dr.Tunji Abayomi has raised alarm over a N100 billion secret loan by Gov.Mimiko Dr Abayomi said “again I am compelled to raise an alarm about future danger of our state finances, which a few weeks ago I drew the attention of the people of Ondo state to a secret loan of N30 billion authorized by the House of Assembly in a secret money deal.”
The House of Assembly, Abayomi said abdicated its duty to protect the financial interest of the people by not demanding for annual statement of public accounts of Ondo State as well as audited account before granting authority for a pernicious loan. This was contained in a released signed by Dr Abayomi which was made available to Sunshine VOICE Weekly at Akure that the house chose to become Mimiko’s House, instead of Ondo State’s House. He said Ondo state is gradually witnessing a realm in which the people have no influence and no rights over the democratic resource which government should be is gradually giving way for oppressive imposition by a pitiless government order, that disdains proper means or legitimate ends.
“The alert at the immediate urgent present moment is the new desire of Governor Mimiko to increase the N30 billion illegal loan to N100 billion. This new financial intake of N100 billion loan will certainly burst the financial health of Ondo state because her freedom will be imperiled by the gripping debt for a very long time”.
Abayomi also noted that Ondo State Government [ODSG] has become a desperate money merchant to solve many development problems it created out of utter failure though saying ‘at least 7 major roads remain less than 30% completed over two years after the government came to power. It is estimated that Governor Mimiko’s “Dome” which has now been abandoned has consumed about N2 billion of public money’.
“The health sector in spite of international agency support is pregnant with undeliverable pain, the University is on angry strike, while the minimum wage of N18,000 remains unpaid by a government that was happy to spend over N1 billion to celebrate its first and second year anniversaries as Poverty prevails everywhere!”
He called on the people to resist the government from what he termed as dangerous loan that ‘it is now clear that to save the state from terrible financial trauma, the N30 billion loan need to be resisted.
“The N100 billion loan now desperately desired by the Mimiko government need to be stopped by the people of Ondo State, the only true guardian of their financial liberty. Mimiko’s Government must stop the dangerous loans’’ “The price of our liberty has, with urgent force, become eternal vigilance against the Mimiko government. Ondo States people be vigilant! Stand up to protect today and guarantee tomorrow” Abayomi concluded.
