ibedun:
This our Orobo governor sef! What have you done yet? Don't disgrace accountants o!

100 days is coming ? your puppet "Orobo Governor" is still playing around

kenny987:


So ur point all along has been that this is an elite club, a party for a particular class so members of the public are not welcome! Ur argument has been that he (BRF) couldn't have posted the info n contract figures on the website if he had something to hide or if there was anything wrong yet here u are rejoicing that d 'honest' information had been taken down. Here u are telling the one u refer to as orobo that he shouldn't start what he can't finish!

So because all of them drink from the same cesspool no attempt to bring some clarity should be entertained! This is the reason Nigerian leaders steal n walk with impunity cos ppl like u are there to do their dirty jobs. Well done aresa.

When they say they want a fight against corruption, what they actually mean is that they want a fight against their political enemies. . They know what they are doing. None of them is seriously interested in any reasonable fight against corruption. They are just cleverly employing that slogan as a smokescreen to mask their ugly intention, which is just to decapitate their political enemies, so that the coast will be clear for maximum looting as usual. . The desperate attempt to restrict the anti corruption probe to juust one administration because of the cankerworms that will be opened with an investigation of Obasanjos government is an indicationn of the mentality of this evil plan. . The same ugly poster that rails to no end about jonathans corruption is here fuming in defence of Fasholas corruption. . Yet the pinhead wants to be taken serious. ..

aresa:





http://www.punchng.com/news/lasg-removes-fasholas-budget-spending-from-website/



Medicine after death...Orobo errand boy, don't start what you can't finish..

hahaha, you are more an errand boy, keep defending thevies.


it appears your loyalty is to fashola, not tinubu.

i wish I was able to get copy all the fraud, called contracts by fashola

cc:dre11

SeverusSnape:

I am an accountant too (about to be though), He's not disgracing us, He's making us proud.

Great Accountants!...Great!!

What's d point of taking down the contract list? Please "integrity and accuracy" which is our watch word is founded on things like this. Please let him restore it back and also publish his own periodically, so we can see how he fares against his predecessor.

I don't understand why some people are trying to blame Ambode for Fashola's issue. The datas were uploaded during Fashola's regime and some of these datas were even used to against APC by the NL Tanoids during the recent electioneering period. So why is anyone now trying to put the blame on Ambode?



I need to understand how he is responsible for all this.

APC don't have the balls to fight corruption

mrborntodoit:
Too late,we already saw all the inflated contracts

I gave up on Fashola the moment he went to court to stop the FOI, I gave up on APC when I noticed that their hypocrisy and double standards has no limit .

It's also worthy of note that PDP supporters can't discuss or argue without tribal sentiments and insults .

Fixed! Thank me later.

h

Just some perspective on the BOI demolition
The financials is worth investigating for any one interested




Bank of Industry building: A year ago, Lagos made history!

on September 20, 2009 / in Business 12:00 am / Comments

By OPEYEMI BAMIDELE
IT will be exactly a year ago tomorrow, when the proactive administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola scored another first, this time, a technological feat – the pulling down of the 22-storey Bank of Industry (BOI) building without any casualty, not even the slightest damage to surrounding structures.

The demolition exercise was unique as no bulldozer or crane was used. Rather, some 5,900 explosives were planted all over the structure and then simultaneously detonated using remote devices. The result was the crumbling of the building within 10 seconds. It was the first of such controlled demolition to be done in the history of West Africa. The task of bringing down the building, the tallest on Broad Street was given to Wreckers Dismantling Limited of South Africa, a sub-contractor of Hi-tech Engineering Company Nigeria Limited.

The skyscraper, which was located on 67/71 Broad Street, a high profile street that habours the business nerve of the country on Lagos Island, had a chequered history of five earlier fire incidents in the past since 1972 when it was constructed. The fire incidents must have dealt a serious blow on the structure which culminated in its partial collapse on March 22, 2006. Lagos State was indeed lucky that hardly any soul was lost when the incident occurred in the normaly densely populated area as residents of the state had been requested by the state government to stay at home to ensure they were counted during the then on-going national census exercise.

The epoch-making controlled demolition of the BOI building was witnessed by eminent citizens of Lagos State, among whom were the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN; the deputy governor, Princess Sarah Sosan; the Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwanu Osuolale Aremu Akiolu I; the Whenu Aholu Menu Toyi, Oba Babatunde Akran of Badagry; former governor of Lagos State and one-time minister of housing, Alhaji Lateef Jakande; former minister of works, Alhaji Lateef Femi Okunnu and a host of commissioners and other top government officials. Equally on hand to watch the historic event were hundreds of ordinary citizens seated at a prepared venue a safe distance from the actual demolition.

Seconds after the state commissioner for physical planning and urban development, Tpl. Francisco Bolaji Abosede announced the zero hour for detonation on the public address system, a cacophony of bombs exploded inside the BOI building, and everyone watching beheld with awe as the building came down – together with the heavy masts erected on it. The structure crumbled eastwards as was predicted by the experts.

All those who witnessed the event responded with thunderous cheers and clapping as they saw a cloud of dust, which enveloped the area, erupt from the spot on which the building had stood. They were amazed that none of the neighbouring buildings, including the high-rise Afribank Plc, Mr. Biggs eatery and the African Church Cathedral Bethel, was affected by the impact of the implosion.

Minimal impact

Hitech’s technical manager, Barney Ames, an engineer, told journalists before the demolition that the exercise was expected to have minimal impact on the immediate environment.

This was because the explosives were positioned to take off the beams of the BOI structure, thereby making the building to collapse on its weight. Engr. Ames confirmed that the controlled demolition would be the first in West Africa, and the second he would be participating in for a long while. He said the only ripple effect to be felt by the surrounding buildings would be the dust that would envelope the environment after the building had come down.

In his comments immediately after the exercise, an elated Governor Fashola, said the government adopted guided demolition as the path of least risk to the people living in the area. He added that the epoch-making event marked the culmination of a journey that began a year before. He commended President Yar’Adua for assenting to the request that the building be demolished, noting that the president’s nod marked a departure from the past, describing the president’s approval as a vote for preservation of the lives of residents of the State.

While revealing that his administration had to make the courageous, responsible but certainly more difficult choice of bringing down the building in a controlled manner, the state chief executive remarked that his administration was careful in appointing the team of experts with local and international reputation in controlled demolition. According to him, the state government searched for a demolition expert until it settled in the last six months for Hitech, which had shown high level of competence in its previous assignments.

Giving insight into measures preceding the demolition, the governor said the experts undertook a pre-weakening and insulation of the structure – a process he said included the pre-demolition drilling, installation of wire mesh and sealing of the entire structure from the inside to prevent any dislodged elements from shooting out without control upon the explosion impact. According to him, a combination of plywood panels, scaffolding and geo-textile covers had been used to protect the surrounding structures from any impact. He said he was happy that such precautions were taken, as the demolition actually happened without any object flying out from the structure to cause injury to anyone witnessing the exercise.

He recalled that though the building had partially collapsed on March 22, 2006, the state government had to wait, while beseeching both the Federal Government and the BOI management to take remedial action, adding that all the entreaties proved abortive.

He said the State Government then had no other option than to exercise the powers conferred on the Governor under Section 28 of the Land Use Act by acquiring the property along 63/67 Broad Street, within which the BOI building was located. He added that the demolition climaxed more than six months of preparations which involved wide consultations with all stakeholders as well as taking measures to safeguard lives and property in the vicinity of the building.

Three days before the demolition, the Governor had gone on air, informing the people and preparing their mind for the impending exercise. He forewarned that a series of choreographed explosions were in the offing that would implode the Bank of Industry building and bring down the structure, adding that evacuation drills had already been carried out with local residents, fire and safety service, ambulance service and security agencies in the preceding weeks to simulate the rallying points where shelter and other logistic support would be provided until it became safe for residents to return to their respective properties.

He reiterated that the state government had undertaken painstaking planning for the controlled demolition operation driven by the need to ensure maximum safety, security and protection of lives and property. He added that preparatory to the controlled demolition exercise, all properties within a radius of 15,500 sq. metres from the target area (BOI building) had been acquired in the public interest.

Governor Fashola also revealed that adequate insurance cover had been taken by the firm handling the work, with the principal contractor taking out a US$150 million public liability insurance, in addition to all- all risk insurance, as a risk contingent on behalf of the team. Furthermore, he disclosed that there was also a Workmen’s Compensation Scheme for all operational staff during the exercise.

To further strengthen the information management efforts, the State Government published and distributed notices of information on the preparations for the demolition works in five Nigerian languages, including information on the eight roads on Lagos Island that were closed to the public during the exercise.

The governor revealed that while being mindful of the Property Rights in the immediate vicinity of the BOI building, a status assessment of properties was reduced into a “Dilapidation Report” capturing the structural condition of the 25 buildings in the immediate vicinity. Earlier, state commissioner for physical planning and urban development, Abosede, had explained that, a pre-event drilling had taken place on several occasions, even with the affected neighbours, such that everybody knew exactly what to do.

Another positive fall out of the historic controllled demolition exercise was the opportunity afforded relevant Nigerian professionals, including students of engineering from tertiary institutions in the state, to understudy the exercise and acquire indigenous capacity in such complex operations.

The successful outcome of the exercise was also a testimony to the Fashola Administration’s now widely acknowleged attribute of careful and systematic planning, proactive long term-thinking and courage to chart new frontiers in its quest to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of residents within its jurisdiction.

If the Administration had demonstrated lack of boldness, initiative, imagination and decisiveness in handling the BOI danger, there was every possibility that the structurally deficient building would have finally collapsed on its own in an uncontrolled manner putting thousands of lives, property and businesses at great risk.

Since the controlled demolition of the BOI building, work had since resumed on the road project that had earlier on been stalled due to issues of safety. Furthermore, other regeneration programmes of the entire Lagos Central Business District are now being vigorously pursued while investment in real estate and real estate development within the area has intensified. As we mark the first anniverasy of this unprecedented feat, the Fashola administration remains determined to ensure that governance in the centre of excellence continues to focus principaly on finding enduring solutions to common problems to improve the quality of life of the citizenry.

Bamidele is the Lagos State commissioner for information and strategy
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/bank-of-industry-building-a-year-ago-lagos-made-history/#sthash.POYOxt1z.dpuf

PassingShot:

Fixed! Thank me later.

Ore mi atata,

Se ori bi awon agbaya, onijekuje APC se ntu asiri ara won si ta ?

Afefe ti fe, ati ri 'furo' adi'ye ooooo

Ko ni ragba fun awon ajibole.

gboye1999:
Just some perspective on the BOI demolition
The financials is worth investigating for any one interested




Bank of Industry building: A year ago, Lagos made history!

on September 20, 2009 / in Business 12:00 am / Comments


Bamidele is the Lagos State commissioner for information and strategy
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/bank-of-industry-building-a-year-ago-lagos-made-history/#sthash.POYOxt1z.dpuf

You mean ...

pls i need, the complete list from 2007 till date

989900 you always talk about projects, see Fashola drilling 2 boreholes with timeline 12 months, i have involved in borehole projects for Akwa Ibom state, one borehole we drilled was 1.2million each, and we completed every thing within one month despite bureaucratic bottle necks

Fashola is constructing one borehole for about 70million

Firefire:
okay

still available here:

www.donttrustapc_downloadyourcopies.com

Happiness87:
pls i need, the complete list from 2007 till date

989900 you always talk about projects, see Fashola drilling 2 boreholes with timeline 12 months, i have involved in borehole projects for Akwa Ibom state, one borehole we drilled was 1.2million each, and we completed every thing within one month despite bureaucratic bottle necks

Fashola is constructing one borehole for about 70million

Please visit that website or www.apcarelooters.com.ng

I can also get back to you later with full list of the fraud.

luvmijeje:
As I've said earlier, a new and intelligent party should get ready to take over Lagos in 2019. If Fashola can be term 'dirty' I just can't imagine the rot going on in the seat of power.

hahahaha,new party take over Lagos?? even pdp couldn't try it,Lagos state has always been a progressive party state.

SeverusSnape:

Amala ati ewedu gulping minions irritate me. *spits*

"Smelly" should have come before "Amala". I join you in spitting at them!

Change has gained and shot up by about 30% in the apc states. Whether they remove the web, or not, Thieffnubu is there to continue to tell us the thieves like Fashola. What we should pray for is both men, Thieffnubu and Fashola to increase intensity of fighting, thereafter, all apc members in Lagos state will join up so that there will be total flames there.
This time around, Buhari's body language cannot stop those thieves in Lagos from opening all their banks accounts..

doublewisdom:

"Smelly" should have come before "Amala". I join you in spitting at them!

Thank you sir. Don't mind the ass licker. Pathetic hypocrite he is.

thanks

Firefire:



Please visit that website or www.apcarelooters.com.ng

I can also get back to you later with full list of the fraud.

All these would not have happened if fashola had kept
Quiet. His response caused all the scatter scatter.
As the former governor of the state, it behoves him
to keep a dignified silence.

His 8 years on office should have robbed a little bit of diplomacy in his system.
You people out there should know that before you are called to take a political post,you do not only sign a social contract to the people but also to your party.

Buhari says that he believes in party supremacy
Let fashola tow the party line and stop taking advice
From those because I go chop advisers.
Nobody hates fashola, but no man would allow a son to err.
My advice is for him to go back home like the story of the prodigal son.
There should still be room for amicable settlement and should ignore comments.
Ko si eni to mo ipari ija.
But some people make money from it.
I voted for APC but am also a political/public Analyst.
What is said in the media highway
Is different from the thinking of ordinary
Nigerians out there.

Yeyeosha done come.

mrborntodoit:

You didn't betray my expectations , Bravo !

matured reply God bless you

Why remove it? Awon ole jati jati. We no kuku see the roads wey them do.

Firefire:
okay

still available here:

www.donttrustapc_downloadyourcopies.com

I am not holding forte for BRF. But isn't it commendable he published these contracts in an accessible website? And this website has been accessible all along, why now people decided to make a fuse out of it? How many state governors were able to publish such information that could turn around to hunt them in times like this?

Problem is we Nigerians made gods out of politicians that these figures started meaning nothing to them. We made them feel they are special and different from us so their lives can be more colorful than ours. And if you have in any way defended any of them, either by reason of being from your region, or party affiliations and other sentiments, you also do not have any moral justifications to have a raised libido off Fashola's travails.

We all knew ambode was Tinubu's errands boy but is this really all he is going to do for four years?
Lagos is not rivers state where the governor can spend all ti.me chasing the shadows of his predecessor.
Tinubu will use and dump him.

Fashola was the one who launched the Public procurement website so that citizens would know how the govt spends their tax. Now some people are using the tool which he launched, which wasnt there before him to blackmail him.

How ungrateful

mrborntodoit:
Too late,we already saw all the inflated contracts

I gave up on Fashola the moment he went to court to stop the FOI, I gave up on APC when I noticed that their hypocrisy and double standards has no limit .

It's also worthy of note that APC supporters can't discuss or argue without tribal sentiments and insults .

your first two observation was on point.
but the last two I Dont agree with....

SeverusSnape:

That is why till tomorrow, I still prefer PDP to APC; even with their shortcomings. PDP members are not Saints, and they never claim to be, but APC members are irredeemable demons and at the same time putting on the facade of sainthood. I only pity their gullible zombies.

God bless you my dear.

Firefire:



Ore mi atata,

Se ori bi awon agbaya, onijekuje APC se ntu asiri ara won si ta ?

Afefe ti fe, ati ri 'furo' adi'ye ooooo

Ko ni ragba fun awon ajibole.

Se e ri. Not se o ri. Egbon re no mo je o.

anwo247:


God bless you my dear.

... And you too sir.

mrborntodoit:


Exactly, but I stopped pitying their zombies when I realized that they have always been that way, all they needed was a political party to regroup their like minds .

The worst of them all are those whom have no reason to support a misleading party but blindly and ignorantly voted them into power,today,a lot of them are still regretting why they voted APC .

They support the party blindly because some one from their tribe or religion is heading.. yet they claim PDP supporters voted out of sentiments and ethnic inclinations