Title: Oyo says N30bn Bodija explosion fund remains untouched
The Oyo State government has insisted that the N30 billion intervention fund released by the Federal Government for victims of the 2024 Bodija explosion is still intact in a special account and has not been spent.Commissioner for Information, Dotun Oyelade, and Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Musibau Babatunde, said the money is kept in an Infrastructure Support Account with First Bank, pending the release of the outstanding N20 billion balance from Abuja. They explained that after the January 16, 2024 explosion in Bodija, Governor Seyi Makinde formally wrote to President Bola Tinubu requesting N100 billion to support search and rescue, hospital care, temporary shelter, compensation and reconstruction works in the affected area.The Presidency later approved N50 billion, describing it as support for the reconstruction of Old Bodija and its environs, and the Central Bank released N30 billion of that […]
