About two months before he was to leave office, in 2019, as vice-chancellor of
Kwara State University, Abdulrasheed Na’Allah wrote to then Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, asking for a N74 million official vehicle; a vehicle he would go away with after he left office. This was despite the institution borrowing almost N400 million monthly to pay salaries, according to a panel that later probed the decision.
The N74 million vehicle was part of the N100 million severance package that the panel indicted the vice-chancellor of going away with under controversial circumstances. The professor was given a chance to defend himself before the panel. He did not.
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By Demola Akinyemi
Chairman of the Kwara State Commission on Assets Recovery, retired Justice Olabanji Orilonishe, yesterday said several of the government properties sold by the past administrations were undervalued and sold at giveaway prices. He lamented that deliberate policies were made to “enrich some individuals and siphon money out of the state.”
Orilonishe, who spoke while presenting the three-volume report to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in Ilorin, noted that the discoveries showed that the state was milked “to complete hopelessness and a standstill.”
According to him, many policies related to sale or management of public assets offered “avenues for reckless expenditure to enrich some individuals,” arguing that the state, owing largely to such practices, was the least developed of the 12 states created in 1967.
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Kwara properties sold at giveaway prices, in secret -Panel
Sodiq Oyeleke
A report of the Kwara State judicial commission of enquiry on sales of public assets has revealed that several of the government properties disposed by the past administrations were undervalued and sold at giveaway prices.
It also stated that deliberate policies were made to “enrich some individuals and syphon money out of the state”.
The content of the report was revealed in a press statement by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, on Wednesday, titled, ‘Kwara properties sold at giveaway prices, in secret: commission of inquiry …Gov receives reports, says revelations a guide to future’.