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Governor Ademola Adeleke-led Osun State government has revealed that the Lagos Liaison office of the state has been pillaged by officials of ex-governor Gboyega Oyetola. Governor Adeleke, however, charged former political appointees in Osun State to return government properties and cars in their possession to the government for them to claim any entitlements. The governor in a statement issued on Wednesday through his spokesman, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, decried the looting of government properties by former government appointees, describing it as illegal.
The Osun State Government has stated that the immediate past governor of the state, Gboyega Oyetola, and his team looted several public properties at the Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. The accusation was contained in a statement by Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson of the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Monday, adding that Oyetola and his cohorts allegedly escaped with items such as television sets, chairs, foams, electrical fittings, bed sheets, spoons, and cutleries, among other valuables.
Mrs Olubukoka Olaboopo, the Osun Commissioner for Women , Children and Social Affairs,
on Wednesday, says the ministry has created a women clinic where depressed, abused women can get help, physically and psychologically.
Olaboopo made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo.
The commissioner explained that the ministry as a social welfare organ had been working toward protecting the interest of women
and children.
She added that the ministry had made it a duty to ensure that women and children received topmost attention and care in the state.
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She said “the women clinic is a new innovation of the ministry and we have lawyers, social workers, guidance counsellors, and clinical psychologists who attend to survivors.
By Aliyu Dangida DUTSE
The Chief Magistrate Court 1 sitting in Dutse presided over by Batula Dauda has sentenced one Sabi’u Ibrahim Chamo to six months in correctional centre or options of N20,000 fine and 20 stroke of cane for defamating Jigawa State Governor, Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar.
In a statement by the Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Zainab Baba Santali, the fact of the case was that Sabi’u Chamo had made a post on his Facebook page and made a malicious statement about the state governor.
During the trial, after the first information was read to the defendant, he pleaded guilty to the offence and the court sentenced him to six (6) months in correctional center or Twenty thousand Naira fine (20,000) and 20 strokes of cane to serve as deterrent to others.