Delafruita: someone asserted the contractor provided the refreshment,if you think otherwise,provide your own assertion with proof.the budget of lagos state is available http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/Y2012/SUMMARYOFPERSONNELEXPENDITURE.pdf. every subhead is broken down.you can even check the monthly budgetary allocation for transportation of the governor and deputy governor.

Ngwakwe: If the Op has removed Lagos State Govt and written Abia State Govt, we would have had another set of contributions from what are presently on this board.

Forget about reading astrological meanings to the Op's motive, he just asked a simple question, lo and behold everybody is jumping on him as if he just burned a Koran in Northern Nigeria..

Nigerians deserve the types of Gov. T. A. Orji to rule and reign the whole country for forty years because of our total hypocrisy and bias.

Shame on all of us.

Probably Abia has a food project, however Lagos dont till date. Will advise the OP to re-phrase his question once again on a fresh thread

Eko Ile:


Do you really think people own you anything to support your insanity?


Reterdeeen is slacking, he's not providing adequate mental healthcare and treatment for his malfunctioning LAPTOPS.

Guk:


And after bn de-lumped, you will then ask for the cost of ingredients to be de-lumped as well. Please educate yourself here http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/subpage.php?k=1

thelastPope: To say there is no budget for food and entertainment when there is food and entertainment expenses is actually an indictment on LASG. You cannot spend what is not budgeted for. Governance is a constitutional thing, not a personal things. The launch of the blue rail project last week saw a lot of people scrambling for food and refreshment. Someone even tried to suggest that it was the contractor that provided the refreshment!

That was a lot of money spent just in one event. To suggest that such monies are not budgeted for is to admit that the LASG is being run like a private enterprise and maybe that is the case. Such amount of money cannot be called sundry expenses. That will mean the budget is not transparent and will also mean the house of assembly is not doing their job. Government, at all levels, have budget for everything down to the pen and pins used in the offices. @op. maybe someone will need to invoke the FOI to strutinise the budget. Most of those talking trash to you here have no knowledge of what is in the LASG budget. They are just paid sycophants and party thugs. You will get nothing from them so no need to engage them. They have neither seen nor read a copy of LASG budget document in their lives.

Demdem:

Probably Abia has a food project, however Lagos dont till date. Will advise the OP to re-phrase his question once again on a fresh thread

revolt: i am irked out by posts claiming the g lagos state govt feeds govt house via his monthly salary.

Guk:

@lastpope, am suprised this is coming from you. "you appear to be an intelligent lad" but i suppose your judgement is bn beclouded. What ever anyone wants to say about Lagos state and prudence, you have to give honour to these guys at LASG. Its a state bn run professionally. You cant even find Lagos state making caps; tshrts; aso ebi and such like wen having Launching programmes. Anyway, @lastpope, eductae yourself here: http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/subpage.php?k=35

thelastPope:

Why are you guys this ignorant? Food budget is not for eating in cabinet meetings. The FG does not serve food in cabinet meetings. Every tier of government entertain various kinds of guests daily from local to international guests. Lagos state invites and liaises with professional, civil society, international organisations, etc on daily basis just like the FG and other state governments. This is not rocket science and the governor does not pay from his pocket. It is not a personal thing. To say he pays from his pocket is a ridiculous thing to say. The @op has asked a question. If you do not have the answer, you waka pass. it is not by force to answer. But to suggest that a tier of government does not have a fund for taking care of feeding and entertainment for guests and events is ridiculous. The LASG government has hosted musical artists for example, on many occasions and paid them millions and put them in hotels and fed them Same for civil society groups, foreign visitors and much more. The government spent millions on refreshments during the launching of the blue rail project last week. Governments do these and much more on daily bases and they are all budgeted for. Nothing is spent in government outside the budget. It is unconstitutional to spend monies outside the budget. I shouldnt be telling you that!

thelastPope:

Most of the links on that page are dead links. The PDF files have been removed. You are exposing your governor more. They are too scared, obviously, to put the details of their expenditure out in public view.

Demdem:

Not even kai-kai.

thelastPope:

you are repeating the same dud links! This is what you get from most of the links there:

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thelastPope:

You cannot say LASG dont have. You will be guilty of the same thing you accuse the @op of if you say that. You have no good copy of the budget and have never read it. so you cannot state that. I have checked the LASG site and the documents have been removed.

Ngwakwe:

The man must be Akpor.

What of bottled water? Shebi he go ask his maid to cross the road to a mallam kiosk for one..

Na austerity.

Demdem:

The OP made an accusation and the onus is on him to substantiate his claim and cement it which he has failed to do so far. Actually, i have once gone through the abbridge copy http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/Y2012/2012AbridgedBudget.pdf gotten from here http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/subpage.php?k=34

and coupled with the recent site given to u by Guk, u can simply help ursef out. U tell me, how many states govt can boast of this? Lagos indeed leads.

thelastPope:

For your information, your link is a dead link. I have been there before and it is still dead, even now. I believe it is because of questions like the one the @op is asking that they removed the PDF files from the site. Now you are really indicting yourselves!!!

a state government site with links to dud public documents! What a show you lads are putting up!

2Legit2Qui:

With all due respect, I am of the opinion that you need urgent medical attention. Seriously. Only baboons and im.beciles and people with mental illnesses go about calling people names without reason. I tell you. Only fools attack people they dont know or see except on the internet, t is just a lack of home training and I just pity the people who gave birth to you. F.uck face. Baboon. Fashola doesnt give a hoot about you, they are there stealing money while you eediot stay on the net running your mouth with impudence. You seriously need deliverance. and if you think Fashola knows your address, or cares about you, then you are a dead meat, kaput, waiting to be buried. shio kelebe.

Demdem:

and why should this even be impossible? Dont u think this is what we should be aiming for. How many are inside Fashola's household that he cant comfortably take care of them effortlessly? Remember that our governors are well paid and of cos anytime Fashola receives visitors we have seen pictures of him not entertaining. Not even kai-kai.

thelastPope:

Every state has a good budget. There is no state without a good budget. The problem of Nigeria has never been about good budgets. It is about implementation. You keep making these mistakes. Lagos state budget is not better itemized than Borno state budget. It is how each state implements their budget that is important.

Sincere 9gerian:
These silly comments cannot stop Lagosians or by extension Nigerians from asking the right questions.

Guk:

Check your PC or internet connection. I just downloded the PDF file. Unfortunately, its too big to upload on nairaland. http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/subpage.php?k=35

If after reading the document and u dont give kudos to LASG, then you are bn downright mischievous

revolt: cos its govt duty to provide those resources so as to avoid any distraction from informalissues. its not a private firm hes running its a govt

Demdem:

Then fault the budget as regards what is on ground. You now have access to 2012 budget, now fault what is on ground to what was stated in that budget. That will be a wonderful thread than this miserable one. Asking questions and demanding answers on an assumption isnt the way to go IMO. i also want proper accountability all over the states.

thelastPope:

Every state has a good budget. There is no state without a good budget. The problem of Nigeria has never been about good budgets. It is about implementation. You keep making these mistakes. Lagos state budget is not better itemized than Borno state budget. It is how each state implements their budget that is important.

Guk:

Sorry, i do not agree with the position that "Every state has a good budget" Please read here http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/states-budgets-wrong-priorities-pathetic-outcomes-1-/120917/ and http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/state-budgets-wrong-priorities-pathetic-outcomes-2-/121428/

A lot of states in Nigeria write budgets to fulfil all righteousness. Most of the budgets were never planned to be followed. Please read Bauchi state budget for 2012 http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/bauchi-s-hopeless-budget/113600/ This state budgeted 19.4 billion for just 19,000 stundents, thats =N=1m per student WOW!!!!!

kutchs: All these fashola and acn apologists here are not doing their principals‘ image any good. The op asked a very simple question what is the budget of LAGS on food and people are trying to derail it.
There are only two options to it:
(1) Give us the budget if you have.
(2) Shut up if you dont.
As the Jonathan led fg has been clean and sincere enough to tell us what it feeds with all state governments should do same too especially the self acclaimed righteous ones.
At least citizens deserve to know what it costs them to sustain their govts.

thelastPope:

The goal of the thread is not to fault the budget. The goal of this thread is to find out how much LASG spends on entertainment or food or whatever subheading you classify it as. Demdem, stay on topic!

Actually that post of mine u qouted was a response to urs that went off from the topic itself.
When u say entertainment, what do u mean? who is fashola entertaining? We have seen pictures of fashola receiving guests and he doesnt entertain. u will need to prove that fashola entertains probably with fanta or coke or lacasera and then ask how much he used to purchase such in a financial year. Again take a look at fashola receiving another visitor. Not even water. The place is not even configured for such. so simple.

_{Come to think of it, na wa for fashola ooooo, haba}