Alleged Missing LG Funds: DSS Detains Adedayo, Ogun LG Boss
The suspended Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Wale Adedayo, has been detained by the Department of State Security Services.
It was gathered that the DSS failed to interrogate Adedayo, who arrived at their facility close to the Governor’s Office, Oke-Imosan, Abeokuta, around 11.45am on Friday following an invitation by the secret police.
Moments after Adedayo’s arrival at the DSS office, the governor was seen driving into the DSS facility and later met with the suspended chairman at the operations desk.
“The DSS has detained Wale Adedayo just now. They asked us to leave, that they’re not ready to interrogate him yet. But they were the ones that kept calling him since morning to come to their office for interrogation, and he arrived around 11.45am, but he was not allowed to go in with his mobile phone,” a family source told one of our correspondents on Friday.
An eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Jide, also said, “The DSS just chased us away from their office here in Abeokuta close to the governor’s office. They said they’re not ready to investigate the chairman for now. But the governor was here hours ago, and he left around 4pm, but he met with the chairman before he left.”
Adedayo had earlier confirmed to reporters that he honoured the invitation of the secret police, adding that he would appear before the House of Assembly over the matter.
The embattled council boss had alleged that local government areas in the state had been receiving zero allocation from the Federal Government purse since 2021, alleging that about N10.8bn belonging to the council areas in the state was missing.
Adedayo, who was suspended by seven councillors in the area on Thursday over about 15 allegations bordering on alleged financial mismanagement to the tune of over N50m, had in a letter written to the National Leader of the party and former governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, urged him to convince the governor to release money meant for councils.
He also wrote a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, calling on the anti-graft agency to investigate all allegations levelled against the state government as regards LG allocations.
The state government, however, denied the allegation of financial misappropriation, insisting that the business of managing the LG allocations lay with members of the Joint Account and Allocation Committee in Ogun State.
In another development, members of the JAAC have denied that local government fund was diverted.
They said every fund approved by the committee during its monthly meeting was always passed through the various local government council accounts.