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19.2.16

Fraud: Ekiti Suspends Forest Officers for Conniving with Timber Contractors

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Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kolapo Olusola
 
Ekiti State Government has placed three officers of the State Forestry Department on indefinite suspension for negligence and allegedly conniving with timber contractors to defraud the State.
The State Commissioner for Environment, Chief Bisi Kolawole who made this known in Ado Ekiti, on Friday explained that the suspension of the officers that had hitherto stationed at Ilawe in Ekiti South West Local Government Area would subsist pending the outcome of an investigation to determine their level of culpability.

Kolawole said that the State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kolapo Olusola, had apprehended the trailer that was used to illegally transport
planks out of the State, adding that preliminary investigation revealed that a particular timber contractor that had obtained permit
to fell eight trees had unlawfully felled and processed over 20 trees into planks.

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