I will send rumour mongers to jail-Amosun

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Ogun State governor, Senator,Ibikunle Amosun on
Friday vowed to smoke out those purveying
rumours and falsehoods against him, and ensure
the are sent to jail.
The governor while speaking at the June 12
Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, the Ogun State
capital, during a Town Hall meeting of
stakeholders for the 2018 Budget, veered off the
prepared speech and ckeared the air on some
speculations against him.
The meeting was organized by the state’s
Ministry of Budget and Planning for the purpose
of collecting inputs of all stakeholders and build
them into the preparation of the 2018 Executive
Appropriation Bill, but Amosun used the avenue
to clear air on rumours being circulated against
him.
The governor accused some unnamed politicians,
whom he said, are aspiring to govern Ogun State
in 2019, of being responsible for the spate of
falsehood churned out against him and his
administration.
The Governor who cited the reported raid of his
Lagos home by the Operatives of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the
latest in the series of falsehoods being circulated
against him, vowed to “smoke out” the
perpetrators and jail them.
He dismissed the recent rumour of EFCC raid on
his home as a “concoction of idiots”
He said instead of those aspiring to govern the
state to tell residents how they intend to
transform the state and make it better, they have
resorted to engaging some “idiots” who would sit
in a room space to concoct falsehood in the vain
hope that lies and rumour mongering would help
the governorship aspirations of their masters.
Amosun also broke his silence on a case of a
lady on National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
who was rumoured to have had twin – babies for
him in less than a year ago.
The Governor lamented that the rumour gained
so much currency that his Mother – In-law had
to call him to confirm if what she heard about a
‘second wife’ having twins for him was true or
not.
He said he has been married to his wife, Mrs
Olufunso Amosun, in the last 26 years and had
never kept a girl friend, let alone having one that
delivered twins for him, adding that the rumoured
twins issue also got to the notice of his wife.
He noted that task of keeping one wife is even
challenging today in Nigeria and had no plans
whatsoever to double such challenges with
additional baggage.
He noted that those purveyors of falsehood could
beat James Hadley Chase to it in “fiction
concoction” in bids to malign him.
On the expected 2018 budget, Amosun said his
administration would make judicious use of it,
adding that he work round the clock to ensure
that all on – going programmes and projects
were completed on or before May, 2019.
He called on the Federal Government and the
National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), to make provision for special funds to
be disbursed to some states which had put
infrastructure in place to prevent flooding.
According to him, giving fund and relief materials
to the states ravaged by flood is good but others
that put measures in place to avert flooding in
their respective states should also be rewarded
with fund as a form of encouragement.
Source:- Vanguard