Activists Fight Dirty Over Money Meant For Yinka Odumakin’s Burial.

The controversy over the burial funds of late activist, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, deepened on Thursday as the memorial committee slammed members of the accountability committee over alleged mismanagement of N10 million raised for the burial.

The committee described the accountability committee members as “self-seeking infiltrators masquerading as Civil Society Activists”.

We  reported that a few days after the burial of Odumakin in Ife Moro, Osun State, some members of the burial committee questioned the management of the funds,the burial took place on April 24.

They subsequently set up an accountability committee known as Odumakin Accountability Resolution Committee which indicted the Memorial Planning Committee (MPC) and asked it to refund N7.9m to Odumakin family.

But reacting to the accountability committee report, Comrade Awa Bamiji of the Civil Society and Pro-Democracy Movement Memorial Initiative, 2021, dismissed the allegations.

He warned members of the accountability committee to desist from “their divisive reactionary orchestration of disaffection within the movement or be ready to face the wrath of the majority and genuine Leaders and Elders of the Civil Society Movement.”