The Chief Press Secretary to Edo State Governor, Fred Itua has decried a worrisome 500 government vehicles still unaccounted for in the state.
This figure is significantly higher than the 200 vehicles earlier reported by a state committee tasked with recovering government assets.
Itua revealed this on Monday during Channels TV Lunchtime Politics where he provided an update to the findings conducted during the recovery, chaired by Kelly Okungbowa.
He said: “So far, the committee set up to recover vehicles, as of this morning from findings that I made, they had recovered about 10 vehicles.
“From the conversation I had with the chairman of that committee, he said that the initial figure of 200 was understated that there are almost 500 vehicles that are still missing and as of yesterday, they had traced about 21 of those vehicles to the house of a very top appointee of the last government.”
Speaking further, Itua shared that some of the missing vehicles were traced to a former official in the immediate past Governor Godwin Obaseki’s administration.
“Then, another – about 15 – traced to the house of another [top appointee of Obaseki’s government], and in the coming days, they intend to legitimately recover these vehicles and other assets belonging to the state that is being held in private hands which ordinarily should not have happened,” he added.
What is more worrisome, the high number of official vehicles belonging to the state or the fact that they are unaccounted for?
