{"id":415004,"date":"2021-11-14T20:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=415004"},"modified":"2021-11-14T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T20:04:19","slug":"akeredolu-planning-to-hand-over-forest-reserves-to-son-babajide-group-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=415004","title":{"rendered":"Akeredolu planning to hand over forest reserves to son, Babajide &#8211; Group alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A group, Ondo State Concerned Timber Merchants, OSCTIM, has alleged that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has been scheming to hand over forest reserves in the state to a consultancy company linked to his son, Babajide.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which raised the alarm in a statement issued over the weekend, alleged that there was a clandestine plot to carry out the plan.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement signed by the State Coordinator of OSCTIM, Alhaji Olawole Idris, maintained that in order to actualize the plan, the state government had placed a ban on all forestry activities in the forests on August 31, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the recent pronouncement from the state government on the lifting of forestry activities pointed in the direction that the new consultant will soon resume operations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state government had earlier stated that there was a grand plot to blackmail the governor, his immediate family and the state government.<\/p>\n<p>The State Commissioner for Information, Donald Ojogo disclosed that there was no such plan for the governor\u2019s son to take over the forest reserves.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group, Ondo State Concerned Timber Merchants, OSCTIM, has alleged that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has been scheming to hand over forest reserves in the state to a consultancy company linked to his son, Babajide. The group, which raised the alarm in a statement issued over the weekend, alleged that there was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1541,17542],"class_list":["post-415004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ondo","tag-timber"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}