Banik To Alimi: Explain How A Sum Of 3.7 Billion Disappeared Under Your Supervision

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Prince Adebayo Adeleke has challenged Commissioner for Information and Public Enlistment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi to explain how a sum of 3.7 billion naira was disappeared from ALGON account under his supervision as the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in 2017.

Adebayo in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Osogbo, challenges Alimi to provide evidence of his stewardship as Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs between 2017 and 2018, as he has done in a compiled publication certified by the Auditor General for Local Government.

Read the full statement:

My attention has been drawn to a statement attributed to Barr. Kolapo Alimi, the Osun State Commissioner for Information, threatening to sue me over allegations of misappropriating 3.7 billion naira during his tenure as Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs between 2017.

I challenge Barr. Alimi to provide a detailed account of how this substantial amount disappeared from the ALGoN account under his supervision.
without any proof of the project the money was spent on. As Commissioner, he was responsible for monitoring and overseeing the utilization of funds, despite not being the signatory to the account.

Records show that there is no evidence of how the 3.7 billion naira was utilized, nor are there any records of projects executed with these funds. As his successor in the same ministry, I ensured that all projects and financial transactions were properly documented, approved, and certified by the Auditor General for Local Government .

I urge Barr. Alimi to provide evidence of his stewardship as Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in 2017 and 2018, as I have done in a compiled publication certified by the Auditor General for Local Government.

This will allow the public to judge the matter fairly.

It is unacceptable for Barr. Alimi to threaten me with a lawsuit while failing to address the serious allegations of misappropriation under his watch .His actions are shameful and unbecoming of a public servant.
I want him to know that there are more coming for him and should be ready to go to court many times .
I asked Barr. Kolapo Alimi the following questions:
1. Will money go to ALGON Account from JACC without approval of either JACC meeting or the Governor?
2. ⁠Was there no memo from your office as a commissioner to the Governor for approval of such joint projects by ALGON ?
3. ⁠Are you not supposed to know the project ALGON wanted to do before you transferred money to her Account ?
4. ⁠Are you not responsible for monitoring of such projects to make sure it was well executed ?
5. ⁠I have explained, with proof to the whole world, what ALGON, under me, used the money you alleged they misappropriated or stole with approvals and pictorial evidence. Can you please come out to do same instead of lying and crying around?
6. ⁠Many more loading. Please, be ready to go to the “international Court of Justice in Hague”
7. You owe osun people explanations of how N3.7B flew out of ALGON account ( in cash) under your watch without evidence of any projects .⁠
8. ⁠Another bank account revealed that N400m cash was taken in a day from ALGON Account under your watch without evidence of any project .(10m × 40 ) in a single day .

Sincerely,
Prince Adebayo Adeleke (Banik)
Former Commissioner, Local Government & Chieftaincy Affairs (2019-2022)