The Ilaje Ese Odo Progressive Union has asked the Federal Government to halt payment of the 13 per cent oil derivation fund to Ondo State until the account of the Ondo State Oil Producing and Development Commission was audited.

The National President of the union, Samuel Ebiesuwa, stated that the contract award process of OSOPADEC should be investigated, noting that no contract had been awarded or executed by the agency in a long time.


Ebiesuwa in a statement in Abuja on Thursday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to halt the payment of the 13 per cent oil derivation fund to the state government “in order to allow proper audit of projects purportedly executed by past administrations in the state under the cover of OSOPADEC.”

He said, “OSOPADEC has served as a means of siphoning oil derivation funds to private pockets by politicians in the state in the past.

“Construction of model school on pile foundation in Ikorigho; construction of model school on raft foundation in Ugbonla; construction of health centre on pile foundation in Ayetoro; construction of mother and child hospital in Ugbonla, and others are not on the ground,” Ebiesuwa stated.

The union threatened to sue the projects contractors if they failed to resume work at the sites immediately.

It demanded the relocation of OSOPADEC headquarters from Akure to Ilaje oil producing communities in order to accelerate the development of the area.

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