The Senator representing Ondo Central, Ayo Akinyelure, has raised the alarm that some aides of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, are taking advantage of his ill health to sell some state assets.
Akinyelure alleged that the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Agriculture, Pastor Akinola Olotu, is conniving with some people to illegally sell out the Ondo State chocolate factory worth between N9bn and N15bn at a give-away price of N10m.
He said, “The Ondo State Government under the immediate past administration of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, established the Coca Processing Factory as part of his state-wide industrialisation drive, by taking over the moribund Federal Government Asset and entering into a partnership with an American chocolate industrialist, Eric Reid of Spangvola Chocolatier United States of America to convert dried Cocoa bean from the state to Chocolate and cocoa butter, thereby adding value to Nigeria cocoa...
“To guarantee a constant supply of cocoa beans to the factory, the Oda Cocoa Plantation, which is over 1,744 Hectares, was resuscitated and made functional with over 250 Cocoa farmers’ up-scaling daily production from the farm to feed the factory.”
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