Fred Itua, the Chief Press Secretary to Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has stated that almost 500 government vehicles are still missing.
The update was given on Monday after a committee set up to recover vehicles and other assets belonging to the state had earlier said 200 vehicles were missing.
According to information from the committee led by Kelly Okungbowa, Itua has now disclosed that the figure is higher.
“So far, the committee set up to recover vehicles, as of this morning from findings that I made, they had recovered about 10 vehicles,” he said on Channels TV’s Lunchtime Politics.
“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 so that is being held in private hands which ordinarily should not have happened,” he added.
Source: Daily Sun
