The lawmaker representing Lagos West Senatorial District and Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Adeola, said his attention has been drawn to stories on some blogs and social media of purported fraud allegation on the disbursement of his N50million donation as palliative for poor and vulnerable persons, families and groups during the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos West.

The Senator, who said he will not be dragged into the blatant falsehood contained in the sponsored write-ups, regrets the shameful attempt to politicize the issue of palliatives during a preventive lockdown for the containment of the global pandemic that is ravaging humanity on the altar of local petty politics stressing that the identity of the brain behind the campaign of calumny and his fraudulent antecedents are known as no amount of subterfuge by his minions and faceless group can wipe the trail of their huge financial inducement for the hatchet write ups publication.

“For the records, my donation was not a political campaign gambit as there is no election anytime soon and neither is it a reward for party members or voters in the largest senatorial district of some 12 million people. It is a relief package targeted mostly at the poor and vulnerable individuals, families and groups for sustenance during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. I decided on cash donation in cognizance of the precautionary measures for the containment of the pandemic and for beneficiaries to address their specific needs on their own during the lockdown. And from the pictorial and video evidences I am seeing on the social media, I am satisfied that the palliative is achieving its goal on targeted persons, families and group without any controversy” Adeola stated.

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Kai my country don suffer!

#50 million for 12 million people. That's #4: 17k if it were to go round. But on another thought, it would have been better if the individuals donating do it directly without passing the hands of the higher ups. Some government donating about 5-tin milk of rice to an entire household to eat for 14 days and they are even stylishly telling us they're going to have to extend it. Governance in this part of the world is a punishment for all. Time to turn back to the will of our Creator.