Posted by Amarachi on Fri 27th Sep, 2024 - tori.ng
Oshiomhole urged the World Bank to probe Obaseki’s use of its $75m fund for the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation.
The lawmaker representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, is calling for the probe of the state governor, Godwin Obaseki.
Oshiomhole made the call on Thursday during the presentation of the Certificate of Return to governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo.
Okpebholo is set to succeed Obaseki, whose second term ends on November 11.
Speaking during the event, Oshiomhole urged the World Bank to probe Obaseki’s use of its $75m fund for the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation.
He stated that he was excited that the All Progressives Congress had reclaimed Edo State after Obaseki’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, lost last Saturday’s governorship poll to Okpebholo of the APC.
Oshiomhole said, “God has brought him (Okpebholo) to rescue Edo people, restore integrity, rebuild our schools, employ teachers so that parents don’t need to contribute money to pay teachers.
“All the fraud that Obaseki was doing with so-called World Bank money, and I think the World Bank will want even to investigate what he did with that money when you have schools without teachers, and you are doing EdoBEST. He left Edo worse.
“Senator Monday Okpebholo’s job is well cut out for him. Edo people cannot wait to see a new approach to governance: government of the people, by the people and for Edo people. Incidentally, his name, translated in English, means the rescuer.”