Senator Ibikunle Amosun, is under fire as the committee for the protection of peoples mandate (CPPM) has written a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over N4 billion facility from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to help Ogun farmers in boosting production of rice, via aggressive rice farming in the State.
Read the petition letter below.
“COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION
OF PEOPLES MANDATE (CPPM)
115 Obafemi Awolowo way. Ikeja. Lagos.
cppmandate@gmail.com and phone numbers 08097591028 and 07033853232
February 20, 2019.
The Chairman
EFCC
WUSE 2, Abuja
Dear Sir,
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Sign-. .
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PETITION AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF OGUN STATE, SENATOR IBIKUNLE AMOSUN VER
MISMANAGEMENT OF N4 BILLION ANCHORS BORROWERS FUND FOR OGUN RICE FARMERS
Two years ago, the Ogun State Government secured a N4 billion facility from the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN), to
help Ogun farmers in boosting production of rice, via aggressive rice farming in the State. The core of the plan an d
purpose of the fund was to also use the facility to establish rice plantations in Ogun State and provide jobs for at
least ten thousand youth.
On an inspection visit to the the State early last year by the Governor of CBN. Governor Amosun set up fake rice
pyramids in Ogun State to give impression Of massive output from the rice plantations. This was well reported in
the mass media.
The governor also announced at the ceremony that rice plantations would be established in different parts Of Ogun
State including Ijebu North East and Ogun
Waterside Local GovernmentAreas,
After that photo-trick ceremony, nothing has been
heard of Mitros Rice and there is no rice plantation
established with the Anchor Borrowers Fund
anywhere in Ogun State.
We urged your agency to quickly intervene without
further delay. The huge sum of money involved
would have gone a long way in bettering the lives Of
Ogun farmers, while providing jobs for our teeming
unemployed youth.
Please treat as urgent sir, as we see such action as
contradictory to the good intention of President
Muhammadu Buhari to stop the importation of rice to
Nigeria.
National Coordinator
NB: Please find attached other pictures and
documents pertaining to this petition
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President Muhammadu Buhari.
Governor, CBN.
Minister for Finance”