Freed Ekiti Finance Commissioner Berates DSS, Asks Service to Stop Being Partisan​​

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 Freed Ekiti Finance Commissioner Berates DSS, Asks Service to Stop Being Partisan​​


The Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Toyin Ojo, who was
arrested by men of the Department of State Services (DSS)  last Monday for
an undisclosed reason, has accused the security agents of playing to the
gallery by allegedly asking him questions in a bid to indict his principal, Governor Ayodele Fayose.

Ojo alleged that some of the questions asked by DSS during interrogation, were irrelevant and baseless, advising the service to stop being partisan.

Aside the commissioner, four lawmakers of the state House of Assembly were
arrested by the same security agency last Friday and clamped into detention for yet to be ascertained reasons.

But Ojo was freed last Tuesday after 36 hours, after undergoing marathon interrogation at the DSS headquarters in Abuja.

Speaking in Ado Ekiti yesterday Ojo said:  "They (DSS personnel) asked me irrelevant questions. For instance, they asked what
happened to about N1.4 billion that the state received on Ado-Ifaki
road project, and I told them I wasn't aware that any such money was paid into
the state government account since I came into government.

“I said though, the president promised a refund of the money during
the campaign but that I'm not aware of such money coming into our
account.

“The invasion or arrest is just a plan to intimidate the government of
State, but it has failed woefully from the start because it lacked
merit in itself. It has no iota of truth in it. Everything they asked me was based on rumour; they lacked substance and were grossly unfounded.

“Another instance is that they asked me of what we did to ecological fund made available to the state in 2014 and I explained to them that we got about N2 billion ecological fund in 2015 not in 2014 and that the money had been appropriately utilised for its purpose in the
state.”


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