Reps initiates probe of Aregbesola over alleged stolen N165 billion Prison Fund
The first seems to be coming from different directions from loyalists of former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Speaker House of Representatives,Femi Gbajabiamila is fingered as being in the centre of a probe of Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola over stolen N165 billion prison fund.
Mr Gbajabiamila it was reported presided over the plenary on Wednesday where it was decided that Mr Aregbesola and Prisons Chief, Haliru Nababa, should be probed for mismanaging up to N165 billion in funds earmarked for prisons development across the country.
The resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance by Ndudi Elumelu, the minority leader of the House on the floor of the House on Wednesday in Abuja.
In his argument during the presentation, Mr Elumelu criticised the welfare of the workforce.
“The House is disturbed that despite this Act and increase in budgetary allocations to the Nigerian Correctional Service to drive its renewed mandate, the tempo and quality of the Service have remained the same if not retrogressing,” Mr Elumelu said.
Said he, “The House is worried that the working conditions of Staff and inmates’ welfare have deteriorated notwithstanding the over N165 billion budget allocations to the Service in the last two years.”
The legislators resolved to have its committee on Reformatory Institutions investigate the allegations and report to the House within 12 weeks for further legislative action.
The move comes as both Aregbesola and Tinubu are slugging it out publicly over the power tussle in Osun state.
It will be recalled that on Monday, February 14, Aregbesola was at a political rally where Tinubu was severely derided, including being mocked over the viral video that many said amounted to public urination on his body.
Both the Interior Minister and Aregbesola has been locked in a fierce political fray with his former chief of staff and successor, Gboyega Oyetola, accusing him and Tinubu of conniving to destroy his legacy in Osun.
Tinubu and Oyetola are believed to be of the same family, with Mr Oyetola often describing himself as a younger brother to Mr Tinubu.
Indeed,the forthcoming governorship primaries of the All People’s Congress,APC,the ruling party in the state is seen as a supremacy Battle between Tinubu and Aregbesola as both have virtually divided the party in the state with Aregbesola boasting of his readiness to end Tinubus godfatheism in the state often described as Fountain of Living spring
