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Hon Wale Adedayo
The Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Hon Wale Adedayo has been suspended.
Great Achiever Magazine reports that Adedayo was suspended by seven Councillors who are members of Ijebu East Local Government Legislative Council.
The Council Boss was suspended for three months on allegations of maladministration and financial mismanagement.
The seven Councillors, on Thursday, 31st August, 2023, said the Legislative Council received various allegations that need to be investigated and directed Adedayo to appear at its next sitting on Thursday, September 14, 2023.
Some of the allegations levelled again Hon Wale Adedayo are listed below:
*Withdrawal of N4million from LG account for empowerment in 2022, which never took place.
*Wastage of N2million on Isese day on August 20, 2022.
*Duty tour allowance for the chairman and other top functionaries amounting to N260,000 in June 2023.
*Another duty tour allowance for the chairman and other top officials engagement in Abeokuta to the tune of N250,000, ratified in June 2023.
*N426,000 purportedly spent on the production of report on 2020 Jigbo festival Ijebu East Local Government, when the Councillors were yet to be elected.
*Claiming N350,000 for the inauguration of Women in Politics in Ijebu East in 2022. The money was not released to the group in 2022
*Entertainment and other logistics expenses during the commissioning of Legislative Building at N350,000 on 18th of April 2023.
*Another entertainment on that same commissioning of the Legislative Building at N295,000 same day, 18th of April 2023.
*The second N8.2million sent from phase 2 of the project (table and the chair for schools) 20 (twenty) chairs were made with N8.2m..
*Another N20million allocation from the state is nowhere to be found.
*Another N15million sent from the state went same way without any project to show for it.
*Award of two boreholes at the cost of N1.8million each totaling N3.6million in August 2023.
* While he collects N3 million monthly as security votes, he has held on to the N300,000 monthly security vote of the Vice Chairman for about five months. He has refused to pay up despite several interventions and meetings on the issue by the ALGON executive, led by Hon. Tunde Emiola Gazal.
* Inability to account for over N2.5million left in the Project Account of the council by previous administration for the completion of a school at Kajola, ogbere. The school remains uncompleted till date.
* Illegal tax collection from Okada riders and drivers via what the Chairman called “levy” without the approval of the Legislative Council, which is double taxation for the people of Ijebu East at this tough period.
Meanwhile, Hon Adedayo has been directed to handover all the properties of the Council in his possession to the Vice Chairman, who will act as the Chairman during his suspension.
The seven Councillors who approved the suspension of the Council Chairman are: Hon. Fasheyi Akindele Adesuji (Leader of the House, Itele Ward 7); Hon. Bolutife Osunfisan (Deputy Leader, Imushin Ward 2); Hon. kemi Aliu, (Chief Whip, Imobi Ward 10); Hon. Adeniyi Adenuga, (Imusin ward 1); Hon. Abass Sidikat, (Owu Ward 5); Hon. Biyi Oguntubo, (Imobi ward 9); Hon. Rotimi Olubode Williams, (Ajebandele Ward 11).
Great Achiever Magazine recalls that Hon Wale Adedayo recently accused Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, of tampering with the revenue allocations of local governments in Ogun State.
