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I Did Not Indict Ambode, Ex Aide Cries Out
The immediate past Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Lagos State, Olawale Oluwo, has denied reports that he implicated his boss and former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode before the Lagos House of Assembly Committees probing the purchase of 820 buses by the Ambode administration.
Oluwo was reacting to a story on PM News with the headline “Ambode Shun Lagos Assembly Again, Ex Aides Indict Him.”
In a signed statement made available to ekohotblog.com, the Commissioner said that the news report was “completely false and indeed a misrepresentation” of what transpired at the proceedings.
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He said: “I attended the second session of the Committee proceedings October 15, 2019 and cannot remember seeing a reporter of PM News in inside the Committee room. The Ex-Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Toyin Suarau and I were called into the Committee room at the same time, so then questions asked both of us were in the open.
“Suarau was asked questions on the Lagos State Rice Mill project in Imota while I was asked questions on the LED-UK street lights installations (a UK Exim Bank funded project).
“I answered the Committee’s questions to the best of the information available to me and at no time was anyone of us asked questions on Oshodi interchange or any other projects outside the two mentioned above.
“It is therefore very disturbing how a reporter of PM News, purportedly designated to cover the State House of Assembly Committee proceedings came about with the report that “Suarau and Oluwo said many of the projects, including the Oshodi interchange and others were never captured in the State budget”.
Oluwo reiterated that he did not and could never have indicted Ambode while also calling on the management of Independent Communications Network Limited (Publishers of PM News) to correct the said story as that would amount to professional journalism.
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