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“Osun APC Tackles Adeleke Over Alleged Water Infrastructure Looting, Describes Situation as National Shame”
Oriontimes Political Desk | 12th March, 2026
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the cannibalisation and subsequent looting of some of the water schemes across the state by the hoodlums suspected to be relying on the backing of the state government.
Information revealed that a certain group of hoodlums have formed themselves into a formidable team who have been invading the water schemes constructed in the various communities in the state, forcefully removing some of the equipment on the sites.
It was gathered that the criminal activities of these hoodlums who have been dropping the name of the state government to perpetrate their heinous and anti-social activities had often resulted into exchange of fisticuffs with the people of the communities where they intended to loot their water scheme to the chagrin of the right-thinking members of the society.
Further investigation showed that these vandals going about the communities in the state with a mission to vandalise the water schemes sell the looted vital parts of the water schemes which are the legacy projects of some of the past state governors in the state.
It was revealed that while the vandals have been operating smoothly without any challenges from the locals in some communities as they were played into thinking that they were on a genuine mission, they have been meeting with resistance from them in some places which succeeded in rocking the peace of such communities.
Information also has it that the vandals of the water schemes round the state were found out to be a combination of the speakers of Yoruba and Igbo languages based on the verbal disagreement with them by the locals who wouldn't want their legacy projects looted.
Further investigation further showed that the vandals of the water schemes in the state who were on their devilish mission to Igangan-Ijesa, Iperindo and Osu all in the Atakumosa-East and Atakumosa-West local government council areas of the state few days ago were not particularly lucky as the communities vehemently resisted the plundering of the water schemes in their domains, a development which almost turned into a full-blown war.
It is criminal for some miscreants to be going round the state with a mission to plunder and steal the common patrimony of the state because of their closeness to the state government in one way or the other.
There's a laid down procedure for the government to dispose of its property and any government official that is selling the property of the state through the back door is definitely courting anarchy which will not be in the interest of the needed peace in the state.
We've never had it so bad in this state since the inauguration of the incumbent administration over three years ago as unusual and unpalatable incidents have become the order of the day which have obviously been putting the state in negative news reportage and subsequently retarding its progress in all ramifications.
If the reported behind-the-scene fraudulent sales of some used vehicles in all the state government-owned tertiary institutions in the state by some state and non-state actors is anything to go by, it means the incumbent government would be guilty of aiding and abetting of the criminal looting of the state.
The police and other sister statutory security services in the state should extend their dragnet into this unsavoury development with a view to investigating, arresting and prosecuting the masterminds of this organised crime against our state.
e-SIGNED:
Mogaji KOLA OLABISI, Osun APC Director of Media and Information.
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