By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN – EDO State chapter of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Monday, called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to set up a panel of inquiry to look into the activities of Edo State Oil Producing   Development Commi-ssion, EDSOPADEC, since 2008.

The party alleged that three years into the Oshiomhole administra-tion, 40 per cent of the 13 per cent derivation accruing to it has not been remitted to the commission for the development of the three oil-producing local governments areas of Ikpoba-Okha, Orhionmwon and Ovia North-East.

However, Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Loius Odion, in a reaction said ANPP got their facts wrong, insisting that the oil-producing communities get their full entitlements when due.

He said: “The results can be seen in the various projects going on in the communities. It would have been understandable if the allegation is being made by constituted authorities in the areas.

“We believe that ANPP is out to cause mischief with this dis-information and should be disregarded.”

On the allegation that the state government was concentrating its development only in Oredo and Estako West local government areas, the Commissioner said ANPP got their facts wrong.

He said traditional rulers from the state, at a meeting in the palace of the Oba of Benin, commended the government for spreading its developmental projects across the three senatorial districts of the state.

ANPP, at a briefing in Benin, yesterday, by its state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Goodluck Imuokhuede, said it was disheartening to note that the ACN-led government in the state had failed in terms of rural development.

He said: “There is no tangible project aimed at enhancing the development of the rural communities. Edo State cannot continue to hang on the beautification of King’s Square and Akpakpava Road for three years.”