Kwara Hotel: PDP Demands List of Item Auction

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded for price tags and list of items auction at Kwara Hotel by the state government recently.

Kwara PDP Spokesman, Olusola Adewara in a statement issued on Monday described as deceptive and uninspiring the explanation offered by the State government on the looting of properties of Kwara Hotel.

The Party said the statement released on behalf of the government by the Commissioner of Business, Innovation, and Technology (BIT), Damilola Yusuf, was not only deceitful but taking Kwara people for fools as the statement failed the simple test of logic and rationality.

“Our Party insists that what has been happening at Kwara Hotel in the past few days is not auctioning but looting of properties. By practice, an auction of the government’s properties always goes through a transparent process as against what we saw with Kwara Hotel, which was shrouded in secrecy. Normally, the bidding process ought to have been made public with items listed to be auctioned itemized for prospective bidders and such process made public. This is the conventional tradition that the government or its agencies are mandated to uphold whenever public property is billed for auctioning.

“If the State government insists that the process was transparent, we challenge it to make public names of the four registered auctioneers it claimed to have engaged for the auctioning. We also demand that the government make public the list of items that were spelt out for auction with their unit price tags.

According to the Party, the government’s defense was a face-saving attempt to cover up its complicity in the criminal and barbaric looting of assets of the legacy hotel. It added that the looting of the hotel was a precursor to its sale by the present administration under Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.