A group of Ondo intellectuals under the auspices of Egbe Ojulogho Omo’ndo has called for the recall of the member representing Ondo East/West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Abiola Makinde, accusing him of gross misrepresentation and lack of accountability.
The EgbeOjulogho Omo’ndo is the second group of Ondo citizens after the Ekimogun Roundtable to call for the recall of the Lawmaker.
In a statement signed by the Chairman, Oluwasina Oyeola, the group says public officers are servants of the people that should ordinarily and naturally render public account to the people without being forced to do so.
It stressed that the character of any public officer that has to be forced to render account of his stewardship by his constituents must be checked, adding that Hon. Makinde abandoner his legislative duties and relocated abroad, leaving the entire constituency without representation for the time under review.
The group said that independent observers’ report on federal constituency projects across the kingdom shows that there are a lot of ‘questionable’ discoveries.
The group, which said it is on a special tour of federal constituency projects allotted to the kingdom by the federal government, says something is definitely wrong and missing somewhere with the kind of gaps observed so far.
Mr Oyeola decried the level of under-declaration of government interventions and noticeable gaps that existed between what the federal government has allocated to Ondo City and what is physically on ground.
Read Also: Edun commends military’s role in economic recovery
According to him, the situation looks just like deliberately setting people against the federal government, a situation that needs urgent correction by recalling Hon Makinde to pave the way for an improved representation.
”Using different formats either by non or partial disclosure of actual fund/projects allocated, use of a special purpose family organisation disguising as humanitarian platform to divert public fund to run personal businesses and political campaigns is their usual style.
“The EgbeOjuloghoOmo’ndo has decided to join the Ekimogun Roundtable at ensuring that all federal government interventions are adequately reported and constituency allocations are properly appropriated and fully used for the people rather than invocation of a one man running the affairs of the entire constituency like his private estate.”
“With the kind of allocations to the Ondo East/West federal constituency, we can say that the federal government has been so kind to Ondo people but our representative is playing down these gestures of the federal government through misrepresentation.”