The Pioneer Director-General of Edo State Diaspora Agency, Loretta Ogboro-Okor, has cleared the air that the governor and top government officials actually travelled to Scotland for a summit.
Ogboro-Okor stated that they had letters to the Scottish Prime Minister three months before embarking on the trip.
She made this clarification on Monday, while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television.
“I’m here to make the fact straight. We went to Scotland for a summit.
“To say people assembled 2 days before the trip is untrue. Investors came to the summit, and one of our mandates of Edo State is to get global investors for economic growth.
“Annually, the Edo State global investment summit is going to be happening. The first of which was in Scotland.
“One of the investors that came in happened to be the European-African of Commerce and Industries,” she said.
This is coming amid allegations that the state government lied about attending a summit in Scotland.
DAILY POST recalls that a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Ogbeide Ifaluyi-Isibor, had alleged that Governor Monday Okpebholo and his aides were in Scotland for vacation.
