The Oyo State House of Assembly has denied the allegations of fraud in the purchase of official vehicles for members of the House describing the allegations as false and misleading.
The state legislature maintained that due process was followed in the purchase of the vehicles in contrary to a media report which stated that the money for the vehicles was released without due process.
In his reaction to a petition allegedly forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by a former prosecutor with the Special Presidential Panel on Recovery of Public Property, Tosin Ojaomo, The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Kazeem Olayanju, said the House could not have executed such a project without following due process.
He started that quotations were received from three companies for the supply of the vehicles in line with the House rules and the tender adjudged as the best and most satisfying was picked and awarded the contract to supply the cars.
Olayanju who stated that there was a glaring element of bias in the petition said the writer claimed that “the contract was fraudulently arranged to favor the contractor instead of Elizade Motors and Mandilas Motors, which also tendered quotations.”
He maintained that it was inconceivable that the petitioner was making a case for a dealer and suggesting that the contract should have been given to one contractor or the other.
The lawmaker, who dismissed the rumour that refurbished cars were supplied was laughable and unthinkable also dismissed as mere conjecture the allegation that the Speaker as well as the Deputy Speaker connived with the company that got the contract to divert the sum of N1.03bn meant for the official vehicles.
