Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole has described the former governor Lucky Igbinedion as a fraudster that should be in prison.
Oshiomhole
while speaking to students of the Ambrose Ali University who paid him a
courtesy call at the government house alleged that he allocated 200,000
hectares of government land to his father, Gabriel Igbinedion.
Oshiomhole revealed that he has revoked the land allocation but it caused friction between him and the Igbnedions.
He said
“I
want to be remembered as the man who took from those who have
bastardized, molested and privatized the resources of Edo state, used
our money to build their private universities and walk around our
streets when they are supposed to be in prison. Edo people will be
shocked how they have been molested by the gang masters of original
fraudster.
“I
will publish records in black and white. I am going to publish all the
assets, government-owned lands that Igbinedion the son has ceded to
Igbinedion the father, properties of Edo people. Lucky Igbinedion gave
out over 200,000 acres of government land to Gabriel Igbinedion, his own
father. They took that land on the ground that they will use it for
mechanised farming but Igbinedion took this land and gave to cocoa
farmers, some of them from Edo, some from Yorubaland.
“These cocoa
farmers will farm and sweat to grow their cocoa on government land yet
Igbinedion will sit in his house on which he is not paying ground rent
and be collecting royalties. Is Igbinedion the Oba of Benin? The great
Oba of the great Benin Kingdom never subjected his people to that level
of exploitation.
“I revoked the land and returned it to government
and they got angry and have been fighting me. Igbinedion believes he is
above the law but I told him that he must obey the laws made by
government. If he faults the law, he will go to prison. Everybody born
of a woman in this state must be subjected to the rule of law. If he
does not want to obey those laws, he will have to relocate”
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