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By Usman Okai Austin.
A heavy cloud of distrust currently envelops the camp of honourable members of Kogi State House of Assembly over N48million alleged bribe from the state Governor Yahaya Bello to ensure express passage of the 2017 budget.
A reliable source revealed that Governor Bello approved the sum of N48 million for 24 out of 25 members of the House. That is, two million Naira for each lawmaker for express passage of the 2017 budget adjudged by all standards to be full of corruption and inconsistencies.
The approved N48 million, according to our source, was delivered to the lawmakers by Governor Bello’s Chief of Staff Office, Mr Edward Onoja. .
However, our source hinted that Mr Onoja was said to have deducted one hundred thousand Naira each, leaving the Assembly members with N1.9million.
The money ย which was wrapped in Central Bank wrappers was ย moved to Reverton Hotel in Lokoja at exactly 11.45pm Monday evening in Ghana Must Go bags by some thugs suspected to be working with the office of Chief of Staff to the Governor.
With the height of insecurity in the state, one of the security guards at the hotel reception insisted that he must check the bags by the thugs in company of the Majority Leader and Member representing Kabba/ Bunu Constituency and a known Governor Yahaya Bello errand boy, Hon. Mathew Kolawole, harassed the security guard threatening to deal with him if he insisted in checking the content in the Ghana must Go bags.
Both the security guard and the receptionist have no option but to allow them pass without check.
With the Kogi State civil servants and pensioners walloping in agony and dying on daily basis, members of the state assembly went away with forty eight million Naira (N48 million) tax payers money just to pass a budget full of discrepancies.
We hereby demand for the immediate resignation of all those that soiled their hands in this act of corruption.
Kogites can now see ย reasons why the Assembly under the Stooge Speaker Imam folds their arms while thousand are dying in the hands of a dictator, Yahaya Bello and his clueless team.
I therefore appeal to EFCC to come to the rescue of the good people of kogi State by investigating the current corruption going on in the State, especially the the 2017 BudgetGate.
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