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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