The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has known as on the Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) to research Kazeem Akinleye, Osun State Chief of Workers.
This follows allegations by the Osun APC that Akinleye used his closeness to the state authorities to safe a 2 hundred and ninety-seven million naira (N297m) Tertiary Training Belief Fund (TETFUND) contract at Osun State College (UNIOSUN).
In an announcement signed by Kola Olabisi, Osun APC Director of Media and Info on Saturday, the get together acknowledged that Akinleye’s actions and habits as a public officer didn’t conform to the very best requirements of public morality and accountability.
The get together alleged that he has put himself ready the place his private curiosity conflicted along with his duties and duties as the executive head of the workplace of the Governor of Osun State, in breach of the provisions of the Code of Conduct (Half 1, Part 5 of the Act).
“His justification elsewhere that he resigned from the corporate as a Director on September 1, 2022, shortly after he was appointed Chief of Workers doesn’t maintain water, because the administration of the corporate nonetheless revolves across the members of his instant household, as an investigation on the Company Affairs Fee (CAC) revealed.
“Equally, the opposite excuse of the Chief of Workers, that the contract in query is a federal job throughout the TETFUND for which the corporate has all of the authorized rights to deal with, is an afterthought and mere misinformation invented to confuse and wriggle his approach out of the contract logjam.
“We, as a celebration, are reminding Akinleye that TETFUND has nothing to do with the procurement of the challenge. It’s solely the accountability of the establishment whose Governing Council’s members are direct appointees of the governor.
“So, whether or not Akinleye is a former director or a present director in AKINKAS INTERBIZ LIMITED with registration quantity 770848, registered on September 3, 2008, with deal with quantity 290, Station Street, Ede, Osun State, shouldn’t be related.
“We enjoin the Code of Conduct Bureau to ask, examine, and probably prosecute the stated Akinleye as empowered by Components 1, 3 (e) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). We additionally enchantment to all patriots inside and out of doors the state to rise above political sentiments and communicate vehemently in opposition to this clear abuse of energy and contravention of the procurement legal guidelines of the state.”
Responding, the Spokesperson to Governor Ademola Adeleke, Olawale Rasheed, described the allegation as a ridiculous concoction.
Stressing that the allegations in opposition to the governor’s Chief of Workers had been baseless, Rasheed added that Akinleye has not violated any provisions of the Code of Conduct.
He urged members of the general public to low cost the Osun APC, describing them as “failed males of yesterday.”
He additionally added that the Ademola Adeleke-led administration is dedicated to upholding and implementing due course of.
The assertion reads, “As a public officer, the Chief of Workers has not deployed his workplace to, in any approach, favor himself, particularly as he’s not a member of the governing board of Osun State College nor a member of the board of administrators of the Tertiary Training Belief Fund (TETFUND).
“Particularly, Hon. Akinleye had successfully ceased to be a director of the talked about firm even earlier than his appointment as Chief of Workers and so can’t in any approach be held accountable for the enterprise operations of the stated firm.
“The Chief of Workers has by no means sat at any assembly or board deliberation the place such a contract was decided and is due to this fact by all accounts not in breach of any provisions of the Code of Conduct or any subsisting legal guidelines of the land.
“We be aware with disdain the reprehensible desperation of the opposition to destroy the colourful and world-class Osun State College, which is working its affairs in keeping with greatest practices and in compliance with its institution legal guidelines.
“We assert with all confidence that Hon. Akinleye has not in any approach abused his workplace as he primarily applies himself to discharging his official duties as Chief of Workers to the Governor, which doesn’t embody contract solicitation and affect for and/or on behalf of any character, be it pure or company.”
