Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Environment, Lucky Wasa (left), with other government officials evacuating vital documents after security operatives foiled arson attempt at Palm House, along Sapele Road, in Benin City…yesterday
Edo State Government has disclosed that it deployed security operatives to safeguard its secretariat also known as Palm House, in Benin City, the state capital.
This followed intelligence reports of an arson attempt on the offices of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability, with a view to destroying critical documents of the N30b Benin Stormwater Project.
Governor Godwin Obaseki had during an inspection of the Textile Mill Road catchment of the stormwater project on Monday morning vowed to set up a panel to investigate how money meant for the project was spent, decrying that the project was conceived by the previous administration in the state to defraud Edo people.