EFCC grills Ogunlewe over N250m FUNAAB funds scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday questioned a previous Minister of Works and current Pro-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe.It was learnt that Ogunlewe was welcome to the Ibadan office of the EFCC spin-off of a request kept in touch with the EFCC by a gathering known as Concerned Stakeholders of FUNAAB in which Ogunlewe and the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, and different individuals from the college's overseeing chamber were blamed for botching N250m.
As per sources at the college, Oyewole and Ogunlewe supposedly burned through N250m for remittances in four years along these lines diving the college into budgetary emergency.
The counter unite organization said in a Facebook post that Ogunlewe was all the while being grilled starting 4pm on Wednesday.
It said, "Congressperson Adeseye Ogunlewe, the Pro-Chancellor, FUNAAB, is being tested at the Iyaganku office of the EFCC, Ibadan today, August 31, 2016 in appreciation of an affirmed instance of misuse of office and misappropriation of assets reported against the college Pro-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, administration and a few individuals from the overseeing gathering.
"As per an appeal submitted to the EFCC by the Concerned Stakeholders of the Federal University of Agriculture, it was affirmed that the master chancellor and the bad habit chancellor occupied with an 'unbridled defilement and disloyalty of open trust.' Ogunlewe is as yet being questioned by the EFCC agents of the commission."
The EFCC had on August 17 tested Oyewole and the college Bursar, Mr. Moses Ilesanmi, for their charged parts for the situation.
At the point when reached on the phone, Ogunlewe affirmed that he was tested by the commission however included that he was just requested that offer clarifications and he cleared out the counter join office at 10am.
The previous priest said the request was started by the treasurer who was abused in light of the fact that the administering chamber declined to develop his residency.
Ogunlewe included that the committee had no entrance to N250m and in this way released the assertion.
He said, "Every one of our stipends are recommended under the guidelines and controls. The overseeing chamber sits just four times each year and our stipends can't be changed. Along these lines, the claims are false. In government you should sign at whatever point you get cash. Anyway, how might we be able to have approved that measure of cash?
"The committee is not included in the everyday running of the school. We don't support cash or contracts. What we do is approach making. Along these lines, we have no entrance to such subsidizes. The recorder is the secretary to the committee and he has all the important reports."
At the point when requested that clarify what he told investigators, Ogunlewe said, "I let them know four things. In the first place, the treasurer requested augmentation by one year and the chamber rejected his application and that is the reason he is against the gathering. Thus, his request is in lacking honesty.
"Also, the treasurer was included in N27m missing assets thus it is him that the EFCC ought to explore. Thirdly, we are going to delegate another VC so there is a great deal of battling and legislative issues going on."
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities had on August 24, this year, arranged a showing at the Ibadan office of the EFCC where they approached the Federal Government to research money related and other authoritative exercises of the bad habit chancellor of the college.
Amid the challenge, the Chairman of SSANU of the University of Ibadan, Wale Akinremi, who talked in the interest of the pioneers of the union, said the gathering organized the dissent to censure and reject the late suspension of individuals from the union by the beset VC.
He said the suspended individuals were focused on in light of the fact that they composed a request against the VC to the EFCC.
He said, "Our position is that as from this minute, SSANU as a union, stops to perceive Prof. Oyewole as the VC of FUNAAB. We are stating that the Federal Government ought to pillar its searchlight on the college framework in Nigeria, particularly on the genius chancellors, the bad habit chancellors and the treasurers."
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