A lawyer to Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, Chief Rafiu Balogun, has accused the Ekiti state government and its top officials of deliberately frustrating efforts to obtain the report of the panel which indicted Fayemi more than a week after the document was made public with the release of the White Paper.
Balogun told journalists in Ado-Ekiti yesterday that he had applied for a certified copy of the report of the panel through a written application to the offices of the Ekiti State Attorney-General and the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) as directed by the Secretary to the Commission.
His letters to the two top officials dated January 11 and received on January 12, according to him were not responded to by the government despite repeated calls to the offices.
Balogun said the panel’s report was one of the important documents needed in the case being instituted by Fayemi to challenge the outcome of the panel barring him and a former commissioner from holding public office for ten years, among others.
He said: “When we got the news from the print and electronic media that the Commission of Inquiry had submitted its report to Ekiti State Government on 13th December, 2017.
