FLOOD -WATER TAKES OVER FROM GOV FASHOLA IN LAGOS

We regret that our Lagos based I Reporter's car was submerged in the Lagos flood together with his Laptop so we will be getting less gist from him for the next few days!

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Tinubu, Fashola squander N7 trillion in 13 years as flood ravages Lagos

Lagos ths week

As flood continue to claim the lives of innocent people in Lagos State, findings have shown that the Lagos State government under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and that of his successor Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN jointly collected over N7 trillion in 13 years.

Apart from few prominent roads and well advertised beautification of the old Oshodi area, there appears to be nothing else the two governments have done.

Report also shows that other ongoing activities are purportedly being executed by the private sector with private fund. Example of such projects include the well criticised Lekki Epe express way.

PDP reacts 

Meanwhile the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has described the flood presently ravaging Lagos State as part of the evidences of 13 years of failure of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to utilise judiciously the huge resources available to the State.

The party said it was sad and ridiculous that a State where government (both State and Local Councils) get over N50 billion as income monthly cannot prevent the people from being killed by flood; saying; “over N7 trillion had been wasted in a State in the last 13 years!”

In a release issued today, Zonal Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon Kayode Babade, who sympathised with Lagosians for the lost of lives, and properties occassioned by the flood, said; “the harrowing experience of yesterday is enough pointer to the fact that Lagosians have been duped in the last 13 years and ACN, the party of dupes should be rejected during the next general election.”

The party said it was time Lagosians begin to ask questions as to what the ACN and Governor Babatunde Fashola have done with the Lagos State money, especially the N23 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

“The fact is that after the country Nigeria, Lagos is the number two richest State in Africa. In the last five years, between the State and the Local Councils, not less than N50 billion is realised in a month, making N600 billion annually. Yet, nothing is being done with the huge resources available to the State.

“From what happened in Lagos yesterday, it is obvious that the ACN government did not do anything to alleviate the sufferings of Lagosians in since 1999 that they have been ruling the State.

“Instead of using the several billions of naira that Lagos State gets from the federation account and IGR to develop the State, they have been using the funds to prosecute elections and electoral cases in others States in Nigeria and countries in Africa.

“Therefore, Lagosians should begin to look beyond the rhetoric of ‘Lagos is working’ and begin to ask questions as to what the N23 billion the ACN collects from them monthly is spent on. Else, Lagosians will continue to suffer in the midst of plenty while these ACN political dupes continue to waste the State huge resources on elections and election cases,” Babade said.“Part of the resultant effects of this glaring failure of governance and wastage of Lagos State fund on political expansionist agenda of a single individual is the flood that ravaged the entire State yesterday, and it is obvious that nothing will be done to prevent its re-occurence by this ACN government.

Citizen Reporters from Lagos State have asked the relevant question: Where does Lagos State money go?

There is no doubt that a thorough examination of Lagos State finances will reveal the destination of the trillions in questions.