The Code of Conduct Bureau, on Wednesday, quizzed the leadership of the Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission over the alleged misappropriation of funds belonging to the commission
Those invited by the CCB included the Secretary of the commission, Mrs Abike Bayo-Ilawole and two other directors of the commission
Bayo-Ilawole, who was among the few public servants promoted to the position of Permanent Secretary in the state, was alleged to have been involved in a N400million allegedly misappropriated in the commission a few weeks ago.
It was gathered that Bayo-Ilawole allegedly diverted the money to a private bank account reportedly linked to her biological father.
Speaking after being questioned by the officials of the CCB at the Akure, Ondo State office, on Wednesday, Bayo-Ilawole said she was invited by the bureau over the allegations of fund misappropriation, but claimed to be innocent of the allegation.
She said, “I’m being invited by the Code of Conduct on an alleged fund attempt to be misappropriated, so I’m being invited to be investigated, and we just started. The allegation has been misappropriation of funds. They gave some numbers. I think when I saw, maybe N463 million misappropriation, yes. To me, I just felt the record would speak for itself, and that has been my response. I told them nothing of such happened, and the record will speak for itself.”
On the allegations of diversion of money to a personal account, Bayo-Ilawole said, ” I said the record will speak for itself. It is not true, like the one they quoted, that money was sent to my father’s account; it was a long-term project. My father was a contractor then and was never up to that term, but the record will speak for itself, as I said.
