'MLA Oken has usurped development funds'
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 09 2011:
RTI activist Sumatibala Ningthoujam has alleged MLA Moirangthem Okendra of Heirok A/C that the MLA has misappropriated huge amounts of his local area development funds.
Speaking to reporters in a press meet held at her home at Heirok Part 3 Mayai Leikai, Sumatibala said that she came to the knowledge of the misappropriation of development funds only after she applied a RTI application to the Thoubal DC .
She alleged that the MLA had misappropriated ' 5 lakh, ' 10 lakh and ' 5 lakh for construction of Multipurpose Recreation Hall at Heirok Part 1, 2 and 3 respectively in 2008-09 .
He had also misappropriated ' 5 lakh each for construction of community sheds in Wapokpi and Ngarouthel in 2009-10 .
No one has ever seen the construction for which the sanctioned amounts had been withdrawn years ago, she said.