Edo State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Hon Abdul Oroh, has denied allegations that he embezzled the sum of one billion naira when he was the Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The money was reportedly meant for financial support to Association of Libya Returnees who were trained by the Edo Agriculture Development Programme.
Head of the group, Solomon Okoduwa, had alleged in a television programme that the money was released after the training programme but that it was shared among top government functionaries under Oroh.
Oroh in a press statement issued to journalists Friday said no money was approved by the state government for such project.
He stated that the state government decided to rehabilitate and reintegrate the Libya returnees into the society by training them on modern farming skills to enable the, become self reliant.
According to him, “The allegations that the State Government released one billion naira, which never happened, is not only callous, mischievous, senseless and a calculated attempt to smear my hard earned reputation.”
“Okoduwa and his cohorts have been inundating me with series of requests and frivolous demands. I have refused to join issues with these street urchins, whose stock in trade is to act the script of their paymaster.”
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