Staff accuses out-going Managing Director of carting away establishment’s properties
The outgoing Managing Director of Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority (O-ORBDA), Olufemi Odumosu has been accused of carting away the establishment property and some “classified files.”
Penpushing reports some workers of the institution made the allegation stressing that Odumosu, carted away items which include refrigerator, office cabinet, computer systems and beddings for his office and official residence, preparatory to his exit from office.
The establishment boss was also accused of removing “classified documents” bearing financial transactions of the agency, on Thursday, 31st December, 2021, which was his last day in office, adding that he was spotted moving the items into a Hilux bus.
Penpushing further reports the workers said the staff union leadership however, confronted Odumosu regarding the property he was alleged to be moving out of the premises of the agency, a development said to cause a slight altercation
“It was this morning of Thursday 31st, December that we realised that our outgoing MD started removing valuables from his office. People saw him carrying some bags and other things. We were informed that he removed office files, refrigerator, cabinet, computer system, mattresses and some other things’, a worker was quoted saying.
“The leadership of our union was informed about the action of Odumosu and a representative of the union was sent to confront him. He, however, got infuriated and claimed that they were intimidating him because it was his last day in office’.
“He claimed that the property removed from office and official residence were his and the leadership of the union asked him to provide evidence to back his claim. He kept insisting that they were trying to intimidate him because he will be leaving office on Monday as his tenure will expire 12 midnight of that day, 4, Jan. 2021.”
Penpushing also reports that, Odumosu while reacting to the allegations said the action against him was blackmail, emphasizing that his adversaries were behind the accusations, and insisted that he did not cart away any property belonging to the government,
“How can I go away with classified files, which are the classified files? People just want to create unnecessary issues. Government did not pay for the refrigerator, it’s my personal refrigerator. I brought it from my house;, he explained.
“When they came into my office, taking stock of some property I wasn’t around. I met them numbering some things and I asked them “how can you be numbering something that belongs to me?;Odumosu added
“They should have waited for me and I told them to get out of the office. My secretary said she told them but they didn’t listen. That is insubordination. Not that I am being afraid of being probed, somebody is behind this. Those behind it are just looking for way to blackmail. I didn’t do all these things mentioned.”
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