Odumakin sends petition to the EFCC against Aregbesola

Human rights activist, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, has submitted a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, detailing allegations of financial recklessness and corruptionbagainst Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola.

Odumakin, who is an indigene of Osun State, submitted the petition on behalf of a group, Osun Stakeholders, on Monday. In the petition titled, “Petition against Governor Rauf Aregbesola for financial recklessness, corruption, money laundering and fraudulent application of Osun States resources,” Odumakin alleged that Aregbesola has sunk the state into abject poverty. While calling for a forensic audit of the Osun State government accounts, the group noted that the petition was part of the resolution reached at its stakeholders’ summit on Osun State held on July 23, 2015. He said, “In addition, the state is littered with abandoned projects even though loans were secured by this

administration to execute them. Today, our dear state has become the embodiment of lack, poverty, purposelessness, wickedness and insensitivity of political leaders of the highest order in the country.” According to the petition, Osun has become the poorest state in Nigeria. It stated that families could no longer survive and the people of the state now look up to the EFCC to ensure that the state’s funds were recovered. It said Osun State had become an object of scorn and a symbol of poverty in the nation because of Aregbesola’s recklessness.