Nigerian Concord Newspaper
The deputy speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mrs Lami Danladi has been accused of diverting a whooping N5 million donated for the renovation of the dilapidated structures of the Government Secondary School in Agila, Ado local government.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEOAccording to reports, one of the visitors that graced the Thanksgiving Mass in honour of the deputy speaker in 2024 made a donation of N5m to renovate the school.
Tha donation was made to the school through the bank account of the deputy speaker who has refused to release the said fund to the school till today.
Reports have it that it was the principal of the school, Mr. Opanye that disclosed it to some angry parents who questioned him about the whereabouts of the N5m during a PTA meeting on the school premises that, the donor had paid the money into the private bank account of Mrs Danladi since last year July.
According to findings, it was when the Principal began to task each parent to contribute N1,500 for development Levy that the aggrieved parents attacked him and asked him to provide the N5 million which a donor donated to the school since last year.
Asked if he had made efforts to reach out to Mrs Lami Danladi Ogenyi for the remittance of the money into the account of the school, the principal without mincing words explained how he approached the deputy speaker to ask for the money.
According to him, the deputy speaker told him that the money belongs to her and not the school since it was donated by her visitor.
He pressed further that Mrs Danladi at some points asked him never to call him about the money again.
Reacting to the development, some youths in Agila who took to their various social media pages and accounts condemned the greed of Mrs deputy speaker, stressing that its not her first time of diverting what is meant for the community to her personal use.
According to them, the school renovation is covered in her constant constituency allowances but she chose to ignore until a donor came and made the N5m available to her.
They raised concerned about the threats which the dilapidated structures pose on the lives of innocent students in the school as a result of Danladi’s greed.
“How heartless is she, after showing her love and voted her to the seat of Ado state constituency, the reward is to steal what belong to the community, what a shame!! The Agila community and the PTA chairman of GSS Agila should report her to Okwolebi of Agila and they should flog her in public” one of them wrote on Facebook.