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Friday, July 23, 2004.
Ondo threatens to sue Adefarati
By Folusho
Olanrewaju,
Special
Correspondent, Akure
As Ondo State
government commenced its probe of former Governor of the state, Chief Adebayo
Adefarati, the government has threatened litigation over a multi-million naira
building equipment supply contract awarded to an indigenous company by the
Adefarati administration.
Disclosing this on
Thursday in Akure, the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism,
Princess Bola Aworh, said the government might have no option than to head for
court to recoup its money from the company, Alpha D, for which she alleged
“over 90 per cent” of the contract cost had been paid.
Speaking to
reporters at a weekly press briefing at the state capital, the commissioner
berated the Adefarati administration for paying such a huge percentage of
undisclosed cost for which not much had been done.
“We may have
no other option than to go to court over the Alpha D matter. They (Adefarati regime) paid over 90
per cent of the money, yet they have not done anything,” Aworh stated.
The state
government, the commissioner also said, had concluded plans to build 200 blocks
of six classrooms for primary schools in the state, one each for each ward.
According to her,
the measure has become imperative in view of the fact that nearly all the
primary school buildings in the state had become dilapidated.
The buildings, she
further disclosed, would be identical and would comprise headmaster office,
wooden doors, metre louver windows, long span roofing sheets, fans, water and
toilet.
The commissioner disclosed that the project, which could
take off as from the end of the year would eventually be extended to secondary
schools in the state.
