Audit Report: Invitation To Odusile, Ojo Not Indictment—Ogun Assembly

<h4>Audit Report<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts and Anti-Corruption&comma; led by Hon&period; Damilare Bello today&comma; continued its sittings with a clarification that the invitation extended to the former Commissioner for Information and Strategy&comma; Abdul-Waheed Odusile and the SSA to the Governor on Media&comma; Emmanuel Ojo was not an indictment but rather to seek clarifications on the audit report of the Ministry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hon&period; Bello issued the clarification today during the Committee&&num;8217&semi;s meeting with the officials of the State Hospitals Management Board at the Assembly Complex&comma; Oke-Mosan&comma; Abeokuta&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Committee Chairman in company of other members including Honourables Musefiu Lamidi&comma; Dickson Awolaja&comma; Wahab Haruna&comma; Yusuf Amosun&comma; Folawewo Salami&comma; Lawal Samsideen and Waliu Owode noted that the sitting was not meant to witch- hunt but to put the various Ministries&comma; Departments and Agencies of Government on their toes in the prudent management of government resources&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He recalled that at the last sitting of the Committee&comma; there was a misinformation in some sections of the media insinuating fraudulent practices&comma; cautioning that the Committee had not indicted anyone but merely considering issues raised in the audit reports with a view to addressing them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;on Monday at our last sitting&comma; there was a misinformation that this Honourable House has indicted the ex- Commissioner and the SSA &lpar;Media&rpar;&comma; we have not indicted anyone&period; We have only used the media to invite them for clarification on the Auditor General reports in line with our constitutional responsibilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is important to note that the this House has no reason to witch-hunt anyone&period; We are only making sure the people see our Governor working alongside with the legislators with the right procedure to achieve all the Government lofty policies and programmes&&num;8221&semi;&comma; he stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He urged the public to disregard the scandal rumour&comma; saying not everything found on the media space might be the right picture of things coming from the Assembly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He called on Heads of MDAs to work together with the Assembly in blocking all leakages and help promote accountability and transparency in the running of government in the State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;