Mimiko is operating three secret bank accounts – Independent Campaign Network

Just few days to Ondo State Governorship election, it has just been discovered that the incumbent Governor who is also the Labour Party Candidate, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has opened three secret accounts with three banks in the state.
A group, Independent Campaign Network [ICN] who is working for the Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] alleged that these three bank accounts were opened sometimes in 2009 and 2010.
It alleged further that Mimiko deliberately opened this account in order to siphon the state’s funds and also divert it to his personal pockets
Revealing this during a Press Briefing at the ICN Party Secretariat In Akure, the State Capital, the Director, Communication and Strategy of the Bureau, Mr. Bosun Oladimeji who also produced the alleged documents on how Mimiko’s government recklessly looted the state, said the LP Governorship candidate must as a matter of urgency put an answer to these allegations.
Oladimeji alleged that the three accounts secretly operated by the ruling LP’s government were opened at Zenith Bank, FCMB and Intercontinental Bank [now Access Bank].
His words, “Mimiko in his first state broadcast introduced secret account into the lexicon of Ondo State politics when he alleged that former Governor Olusegun Agagu and late Obolo, a special Assistant to Agagu on Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] projects. No sooner he came on board that he opened the following Accounts; secretly to indulge in the same act he accused his predecessor.
“The account was operated between February 2009 and January 2010 numbered 1011087392 Zenith Bank PLC. Through this account, recurrent expenditures and security votes were carried out. N100million was collected with a Zenith Bank Plc, Akure Cheque number 00014375 by the Pay Master [PM] [Mr. Philip] of Government House on July 24, 2012 which was the eve of the illegal public declaration of Mimiko for second term held on July 25”.
The ICN media director said they got their information from a source in the Accountant General’s Office with enough documents to expose Mimiko’s ill administration.
He added “before the advent of Mimiko’s administration, the immediate past government operated an Intercontinental Bank Account for Capital projects but immediately Mimiko came on board, new account 0409241025 was opened at the FCMB PLS with influence of his brother in-law Femi a.k.a Smokey acting as the account officer. The account is used for the collecting of monthly VAT from the federation Account. The monthly VAT accruable in the account is in excess amount of N15billion as deposit. The monthly VAT accruable in the account is in excess of N653million.
“The former Intercontinental Bank Account [Now Access Bank] is being used for the draw-down of the N50billion secret bond secured from the capital market. As at now, N7billlion has released to the state government while another N10billion was also released to the ministry of works. Yet no road has been commissioned by the state government since 2009.
Oladimeji also revealed the alleged fraud behind the Direct Labour Agency introduced to the state by the present Mimiko’s administration.
According to him, “Mrs. Bolaji Tunde Suara, the Senior Special Assistant to Mimiko on Direct Labour Agency [DLA] has mismanaged over N75million on the two-Ultra Modern Mechanic Village at Oda road, Akure [work done zero] abandoned while the Ondo Road Mechanic Village was valued at just N45million. The projects lack no bill of quantity, no architectural drawing and no approval.
“Mimiko who claimed that he renovated Odopetu, Okelisa, Isolo Markets, built during Agagu’s administration with N100million and you can check the state Budget 2010 and 2011 budgets which was published by Ministry of Budget and Planning.
“N400million injected to Arigidi Tomatoes Company. Top political appointees from the Chief of Staff, the Commissioner for Commerce and Industries, Frank Sheen and the Company MD Mr. Adebayo looted the N400billion that was why Ondo State citizens have only seeing the picture of the Arigidi Tomatoes industry shown on NTA Abuja”.
However, ICN spokesman urged the electorate to vote out the present administration in order to save the state from the financial recklessness of Mimiko’s government.
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