The Ogun state government has stripped the immediate former governor,
Otunba Gbenga Daniel of the ownership right to the Golf Resort hotels
and Gateway Front Foundation without compensation.Gateway Front Foundation was the pet project initiated by the wife of the former governor, Mrs Funke Daniels shortly after the administration was inaugurated in 2003 while the Golf Resort hotels are privately owned hotesl opened by Mr Daniel whilst serving as the governor of the state.
The incumbent state government alleges that “state funds were used to build the two facilities.”
The government has also taken over the Gateway hotels in Ijebu-ode and Otta which were concessioned to private companies by the erstwhile administration for non-performance. The Daniel’s administration had privatized the state owned hotels due to non-efficiency.
The revocation and confiscation followed a white paper issued on the first report of the judicial commission of inquiry into all land allocations, acquisition, sale and concessions of government property and administrations between January 2004 and May 29, 2011.
The special committee, chaired by the Deputy governor Segun Adesegun, was mandated to look into the allegations that state resources were used to build the hotels.
The state government also recently rescinded the policy of the former governor by changing the nation’s premier university of education, the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) to a department of Education with the state university.
A ruling by an Ogun state High Court has however thwarted the policy, ordering the state government not to proceed with the conversion.
Mr Daniel is currently standing trial for money laundering and financial mis-appropiation while he was the governor of Ogun state from 2003 to 2007. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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