CBN, Accountant General Planning To Pay Our LG Allocations Into Private Bank Accounts-Osun Govt

Osun State government on Wednesday raised the alarm about alleged plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the office of Accountant General of the Federation to pay money belonging to local governments in the state into private bank accounts.

 Hon Dosu Babatunde, the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, in a statement issued in Osogbo and made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Wednesday, alleged that they are planning to do this with the intention of thwarting cases already filed at the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

‘ Available information at our disposal as a government indicates that, the offices of The Accountant General of the Federation and Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN) have concluded plans to pay Osun LG allocations into private bank accounts of some impostors.

As a government, we are of the strong contention that this is quite sad, unfortunate and unconstitutional for these two Federal Government agencies to conclude plans to pay Governments money into private bank accounts. This will amount to an open violation of public finance regulations.

When Osun State Government first heard about this plans, it quickly took a step through the office of the Auditor General for Local Governments in the State by sending a letter to the CBN introducing the accounting officers of each of the 30 local Governments to them such as the Heads of Local Government Administrations(H.L.A) and Director of Finance.

However, to our great consternation and dismay, the CBN Osogbo office rejected the list and then decided to pay Osun Local Government allocations into private bank accounts of former Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s men who submitted their names without the input of the accounting officers of all the LGs in Osun State.

To this end and with all sense of responsibility, we wish to draw the attention of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to this constitutional shenanigans, because, we are of the conviction and belief that, this unlawful act is being done without the consent and knowledge of Mr President as well as the Honourable Minister of Finance.

We wish to further add and warn that , any money paid into the private bank account of any individual is not and will never be Osun State Local Government money, and the consequence for this will be very severe as Osun State Government will not spare any action in line with the dictates of the law in order to redress such an anomaly.

Finally, we are using this medium to appeal to Mr President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to intervene before some people for their own self-centered reasons subvert the rule of law to unconstitutionally tamper with people’s money in Osun State’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you