Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said over 90 properties built with public funds were unlawfully appropriated by some officials of the past administration.
According to a statement made by AbdulRazaq on Sunday, said the revelations came from the report of the Senator Sulaiman Ajadi committee which he had set up to probe the handling of public assets since 1999.
“The committee submitted two reports and we are waiting for the final report. It is unfortunate that from my own view so far, people just shared government property as if it was theirs.
“For instance, you offer property to Harmony Holdings to contribute in the interest of the state as trust and those in Harmony Holdings simply shared the property among themselves, notwithstanding selling beneath the valuation costs. Indeed, even those in government did likewise. There is another layout called New GRA, none of them went there to fabricate new houses since it was less expensive to pick government houses for beside nothing instead of construct their very own homes,” AbdulRazaq said.
The governor also said he had set up a 15-member committee to undertake a comprehensive assessment and recommendation of the Kwara State Social Assessment Vulnerable Indicator Parameters – a key part of AbdulRazaq’s plan to clean up the state and ward off environmental disasters.
