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Nigeria: 'Why We Returned Money Paid Into Our Accounts'
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This Day (Lagos)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Yinka Kolawole
Osogbo
Minority Leader, Osun State House of Assembly, Honourable Timothy Owoeye, has explained that refund of government funds paid into their individual accounts for constituency projects was in strict compliance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Owoeye said the embattled Speaker, Honourable Adejare Bello's outburst against Action Congress (AC) legislators on the controversial constituency project should be disregarded and described the invitation extended to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to look into the breach of the law in Osun State, as a patriotic duty, rather than cheap politics.
The lawmaker said "it was true we consented to the constituency project, but our suggestion that the money should not be paid into private accounts was disregarded. We saw this as an unlawful act, which must be discouraged. That was why we decided to refund the money until appropriate procedures are followed." What the Action Congress in Osun State did over this matter, according to Owoeye, was likable to the agony experienced by a baby that is going through weaning, stressing that "once a baby has reached the stage of weaning, it will be very difficult for it to accept the reality that the sweet milk from the mother's breast has stopped."
He said, "we were not elected by our constituencies to execute contracts."
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Some past honourable members who served from 2003 to 2007 have, as a result of our petition to the EFCC, returned to assumed project sites to start cutting grasses and clearing bushes many years after constituency development funds were paid into their accounts with nothing to show for it."
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