The contractor engaged by the Department of State Service, DSS, Cooperative, COMCOOP, to sell plots of lands at DSS Housing Estate in Ibadan, A-ONE Executive Professional Services Limited, has said that the Cooperative is economical with the truth on the land protested against by subscribers.
The Principal Consultant to the contractor, Mr. Badmus Adedeji, said this while speaking with journalists in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Recall that subscribers who bought plots of lands at the estate, located at Ile-Titun area of Ibadan, had on Tuesday protested against the refusal of DSS Cooperative to allocate lands to them.
It was gathered that the estate named as Department of State Security Service Community Multipurpose Cooperative Society Housing Estate, was sold by the DSS Cooperative through the contractor.
The DSS Cooperative, while reacting to the protests, in a statement, alleged that the contractor has not remitted any of the money collected from the subscribers to the Cooperative account, adding that there was a breach of the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, by the contractor.
But the contractor in a reaction, maintained that the DSS Cooperative is the one that proved to be clever by half.
Adedeji, who insisted that it was the DSS Cooperative that gave the contractor the power to sell the lands on its behalf, noted that he was surprised that the DSS Cooperative is coming out with a statement to nail the company and exonerate itself.
Assuring that all the subscribers would get their allocations as soon as the differences between the contractor and the Cooperative are resolved, he said the company cannot go to a land belonging to DSS Cooperative and be selling the lands without its approval.
He then appealed to the subscribers to remain calm, adding that the issues would soon be resolved between the contactor and the DSS cooperative.
He added, “There is an agreement between us. There is an MoU. I cannot just go to DSS land and be selling it. It is the DSS Cooperative that wants to be engaged in clever game. They are just being economical with the truth. There is an MoU that states the sharing formula.
“They are saying that we do not remit the money, but the money is not the problem. I have told you my own side of the story, I was given the mandate before I started the job.
“Where did we got the money to develop the site when they said that we did not remit the money? They are economical with the truth.
“It is not possible in this Nigeria for one person to enter DSS land and be selling it. That is what I called conspiracy theory. I acknowledge that they gave me the job to execute as a contractor.
“But, what I know is that everybody will get their land. We are appealing to the subscribers to be patient with us as we sort things out and settle our differences with the COMCOOP.
“There are many things we cannot be saying here, what I know is that the issue will be resolved between us, all the subscribers will get their lands.”
