The General Manager of Kwara State Television Authority, Abdulfatai Adewale Adebowale is reportedly being detained by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations bothering on land fraud.
Adebowale was said to be facing interrogation alongside a senior official of the Kwara State Bureau of Land and two members of the staff of the television station.
The Immediate past Governor of the state, Abdulfatai Ahmed had in 2014 allocated 10 plots of land in the premises of the television station at Apata Yakuba area of Ilorin for some members of the staff of the station.
Thirteen members of the staff had in a petition dated 8th day of May 2019 alleged that the General Manager had sold the 10 plots of land given by the State Government and converted to his personal use.
“Since 2014 to date, the said plots of land was hijacked by the General Manager, Alhaji Abdulfatai Adewale Adebowale against the purpose intended by the State Government for Staff corporation, In 2017, the in house Union of the Corporation Radio, Television, Theatre and Art Workers (RATTAWU) started agitation for the recovery of the land from the General Manager which led to plethora of correspondences between the union and the Office of the Kwara State Head of Service.
“The Union wrote the Kwara StateBureauLandrequestingfor the allocation paper in request to recover the said Land converted by the General Manager as his personal property, but all to no avail,” the petitioner had stated.
It was learnt that the operatives of the Commission during investigations discovered the suspect and his son allegedly benefited from the land while the remaining ones were sold to outsiders without the knowledge of the staff.
The investigations also reportedly revealed that Adebowale received allocation papers in the names of staff but did not deliver the documents to the original owners.
Sources said the EFCC would soon charge the suspect to court.
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