Ex-ALGON chairman rejects Aiyedatiwa’s appointment in Ondo

A erstwhile Chairman of Akoko South West Local Government successful Ondo State, Augustine Oloruntogbe, has declined his assignment arsenic a subordinate of the Ondo State Cocoa Revolution and Management Board.

Oloruntogbe, who had served arsenic Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, successful the state, declined the assignment successful a missive addressed to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.

Aiyedatiwa had connected Friday approved the constitution of the Ondo State Cocoa Revolution and Management Board arsenic portion of committedness to reposition agriculture arsenic a cardinal operator of the state’s economy.

Oloruntogbe successful the missive stated that helium would not beryllium capable to service owed to pressing idiosyncratic and nonrecreational commitments that would not let him to springiness the duty the afloat attraction it deserves.

Meanwhile, the erstwhile assembly president utilized the accidental of his rejection missive to gully the governor’s attraction to what helium described arsenic urgent grievances from farmers successful the state.

According to him, cocoa farmers wrong the Ose Game Reserve person alleged that arsenic overmuch arsenic N150,000 is being collected from each husbandman into a backstage account, with nary authoritative receipt issued for specified payments.

Oloruntogbe urged the authorities authorities to analyse the allegations and guarantee that each levies and payments wrong the cocoa worth concatenation are transparent, decently documented...