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Humanitarian Affairs Contracts: Another Tinubu Minister In Trouble Despite Strong Defence!
By Emily Ogah
The Minister of Interior, Honourable Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has debunked the allegations that a company owned by him got contracts of N438 million from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs headed by Beta Edu.
GWG.ng reports that Edu has been suspended over alleged fraud. However, as she resigned it emerged that a company which twitter users found ouTunji-Ojo clarifying his position said that he resigned from the company in February 2019.
Tunji-Ojo clarified this in an interview with Channels Television. However, his defence fell short of acceptance among some Nigerians who claimed that he remained a beneficiary in the company through his wife and his shares.
Clarifying himself over the allegations, Tunji-Ojo said that though he founded the company 15 years ago but that when he won election into the House of Representatives that he resigned as a director in the company.
Tunji-Ojo insisted that he could not be guilty of any allegations as concerning the running of the company because as he claimed he was not involved in the day to day running of the company.
Tunji-Ojo as such denied the allegations of contract racketeering saying that he was ignorant of the day to day operations of the company.
“I came into office with a commitment to base my service on sincerity of purpose and openness obviously because I believe that Nigerians do not deserve to be kept in the dark in terms of public office operations.
“I saw the allegations made against me and I was shocked because five years ago, I had resigned from the company in question as a Director.
“I resigned as a director of the company first and then wrote to the board and secondly to the CAC,” which he said was certified by the CAC.
However, his appearance on the interview was, however, not convincing for some.
GWG.ng gathered some of the reactions:
However, the gap on whether the wife was still a director was filled by another twitter user
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