N300m LG Funds: Ex-Commissioner dares Kwara govt to publish financial accounts

from Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s cabinet, has challenged the state government to publish the local governments’ financial accounts starting from 2019.

Ms Pategi, whose controversial resignation letter was tendered three weeks ago, had, in July, accused the state’s ministry of finance of diverting N300 million local government funds while she headed the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. Afterwards, she was moved to the ministry of special duties during a cabinet reshuffle carried out in the same month. This decision did not go well with the commissioner which led to her resignation, this paper learnt.In the early hours of Monday, Ms Pategi, in a tweet, dared the state government to publish the local governments’ accounts.

“The Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, Arc. Aliyu Mohammad Saifuddeen emphasized this while featuring on a live programme tagged “GOOD MORNING KWARANS” at the Kwara Television Service during the weekend. “Arc. Saifuddeen said as the Commissioner saddled with the cabinet responsibility of supervising and monitoring the activities of the Third Tier of Government, he can emphatically say that since the inception of the present administration in the State, no single kobo of the Local Government’s money was missing or diverted by anyone,” Mr Bolaji stated.

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