Bisi Akande, former interim chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), says he has never given or demanded a bribe all his life.
In his autobiography “My Participations” unveiled on
Thursday, Akande said he was incarcerated at Agodi imprisons by then military
government of Muhammadu Buhari over trumped-up charges of corruption.
He was released after two years following another military
coup by Ibrahim Babangida.
When he became governor of Osun state, Akande said he was
almost impeached because he would not approve bogus allowances for members of
the state assembly.
The author also said he was informed that bribes had to be
paid to labour union leaders in order to avert incessant industrial strikes
during his tenure.
“As SSG and Deputy Governor, my take home pay was much lower
than what I was earning as an executive of BP. In the two offices I held, I had
no authority to approve government expenditure. I never took bribe and never
gave bribe to anyone,” the author wrote.
“No one ever wrote any petition against me to the EFCC, ICPC
or the police for any fraud or wrongdoing during my term of office.
“I never gave or
demanded bribe from anyone all my life. All of us who served in my government,
all my commissioners and others, came out the way we went in. No one was richer
and not a single one of my political appointees was indicted after we left office
despite that an opposition party came to power after us.
“The house of assembly may have found common cause with
Omisore because of money. The members complained that we did not give them
money and cars. We could not because we simply did not have money.
“The trick, I was told, was that any time a notice of trade
dispute was served to the government, the Osun State leadership of the Joint
Negotiating Councils, the Nigerian Union of Teachers, the National Union of
Local Government Employees and the Nigerian Labour Congress would be bribed
with money to soft-pedal and cooperate with the government.”
Akande also lamented how civil servants deployed every
opportunity to inflate prices of materials purchased and contracts awarded.
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