Posted by From SEYE OJO, Ibadan on
Strong indications emerged on Monday that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), will quiz one of the sons of the strongman of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, simply identified as Jubril in Abuja today.
Strong indications emerged on Monday that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), will quiz one of the sons of the strongman of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, simply identified as Jubril in Abuja today.
Daily Sun learnt that the appearance of Jubril before the anti-graft panel in the Federal Capital Territory is in connection with the controversial N200 million spent by Oyo State government to renovate and rehabilitate the ancient Mapo Hall in Ibadan.
Investigation revealed that Jubril was the director of the company that handled the Mapo Hall contract.
The invitation, Daily Sun gathered, followed the quizzing and interrogation of three serving commissioners in the state and some top government functionaries in the Governor Alao Akala administration over the contract.
Jubril was reportedly named by the commissioners and the state top government functionaries as the contractor that handled the project when they appeared before ICPC in Abuja recently.
According to the source, Jubril Adedibu is expected to answer specific questions relating to the award of the contract, especially on the circumstances surrounding the finance of the contract as an alleged director of the firm that executed the contract.
In the petitions, sent to the anti-graft commission by some concerned citizens in Oyo State, it was alleged that the contract was executed at a rate far beyond the sum earlier earmarked by the Senator Rashidi Ladoja's administration for the renovation of the hall before his nullified impeachment by some members of the Oyo State House of Assembly.
It would be recalled that three serving commissioners in the state appeared before ICPC in Abuja last week in continuation of the probe over the controversial renovation of the hall.
This, the source unmasked, came after the case files of the interrogated serving commissioners were transferred to the Abuja office of the commission from the ICPC operatives that interrogated the commissioners in Ibadan recently.