Former governor of Lagos, Raji Fashola did not
lie when he said that wrestling with a pig gets
you dirty. He knew that he had gotten dirty,
but who is the pig? Me? BudgIT? No, we are
not the ones Fashola embraced and rolled
with to get dirty. It was the Cabal pigs that
dirtied him.
While the ex-governor attempted to defend the
spending of N78 million ($400,000) on
upgrading, building a countdown clock and
making his website mobile compliant, the
question is, was this allocation of the
resources of Lagos State responsible? Indeed
software development, being relatively
nonconcrete can be billed as it pleases various
“experts.” You can estimate $1 million or even
$1 billion for the same project and the Lagos
procurement office can approve, but again,
does this make it fiscally responsible for the
poor Nigeria and poor Lagos to choose such
project to invest in?
I was driven in a hurry from Surulere to Ikeja
Airport this June after a TV interview. We
took Ikorodu road to avoid traffic. The
experience was appalling. I was surprised. All
the good things they said of APC in Lagos, why
was that road so wretched? As we dodged
potholes and scraped the bottom of our car, I
prayed for Nigeria. The entire stretch of road
was just a few kilometers; why did governor
Fashola not think of the poor masses who ply
this road everyday and try to speed up their
lives and improve their health by repairing it
with just a few millions so they can get to and
fro more quickly and achieve more for
themselves, I wondered?
Since Fashola cancelled Okada motorcycle
transport in Lagos it has gotten quite
impossible to get anywhere on the mainland
within reasonable time. It’s just impossible.
And there is nothing he did about that in his
eight years. How many years of governors like
him do we need to move around faster in
Lagos? The BRT bus lanes with concrete
barriers is ridiculous to me. There could be
much more reasonable planning, but we
understand it was a honest attempt from his
limited experience/consultation.
The bitter truth is, governor Fashola does not
see the poor masses. Being a man of fortune,
fortune bestowed on him by the Wale and
Bola Tinubus, he has come to associate with
the Elite and forgotten his rather humble
beginnings. His roadmap for the development
of Lagos was about the Islands, Lekki, Eko
Atlantic and ease and access for the wealthy.
Towards these, Fashola took the most
humongous loans, and sold bonds, binding
Lagos in eternal debt to house and cater to a
few. Of the N400 billion Lagos owes, how
much was for projects for the poor? Half a
trillion naira and next to nothing for us!
All the poor got from this money was
bulldozers. Bulldozers clearing them out of the
slums they lived in to beautify the State for
the affluent. I’ll like to ask, how many
Projects: poor housing complexes did Fashola
build with the billions of naira borrowed?
Someone please point these out to me. Any
reasonable government MUST provide welfare
and build housing for the poor. We see these
“projects,” Public housing constructions in the
US from the early 18th century. They are not
exorbitance but town planning common sense.
As I landed in Nigeria, luckily invited for the
Presidential inauguration, I was contacted by a
top US body. They interrogated me on Eko
Atlantic and the Halliburton scandal. I was
confused at the time; you see, I had focused
my last couple of years advocating for
Nigeria’s masses against the corrupt Jonathan
PDP government, I had paid little attention to
other matters. What were these people trying
to do, I pondered, what were they aiming at? I
said what I knew. We talked about Atiku,
Obasanjo, the Chagoury brothers. Then I
perceived they wanted to spoil my fun. I am
going to celebrate and you have this can of
worms… but later I understood.
It was no coincidence that before Buhari’s
maiden trip to the US, he reopened the
Halliburton scandal. It was likewise no
accident that Governor Fashola was not taken
along on the trip to the US.
I used to be one of Fashola’s greatest fans, but
this was until he romanced Aliko Dangote and
expelled poor settlers from their land to make
way for Dangote’s refinery without
consideration, compensation or any reasonable
attempt at fair relocation. This was the
turning point for me. I recognized the mark of
the Elite on Fashola’s forehead as I saw those
families bloodied and crying for help.
The Elite in Nigeria are one family. Look at
them, north to south. They marry each other,
support and defend each other to the death
and not only steal from the masses but fight
to deprive the masses to subdue and keep
them (us) in a state of perpetual slavery and
deadly deprivement. Fashola is a Cabal, he is
an Elite. he is like our National Assembly,
usurpers of billions.
Eko Atlantic will house only 250,000. 250,000
wealthy people. There is no accommodation
within or nearby for us masses. The billions
are being borrowed and siphoned to construct
the project through one of Nigeria’s record
most corrupt construction conglomerates.
I advise my readers to visit the Guardian
article on this: “New, privatized African city
heralds climate apartheid:” http://
www.theguardian.com/environm...atized-
african-city-heralds-climate-apartheid
Permit me to quote:
“Sixty percent of Nigeria’s population – almost
100 of 170 million people – live on less than a
dollar a day. Preventable diseases are
widespread; electricity and clean water hard
to come by. A few kilometres down the Lagos
shoreline, Nigerians eke out an existence in
the aquatic slum of Makoko, built precariously
on stilts over the ocean. Casting them as
crime-ridden, the government regularly
dismantles such slums, bulldozing homes and
evicting thousands. These are hardly the
people who will scoop up square footage in
Eko Atlantic’s pricy new high-rises.
Those behind the project – a pair of politically
connected Lebanese brothers who run a
financial empire called the Chagoury Group,
and a slew of African and international banks
– give a picture of who will be catered to.
Gilbert Chaougry was a close advisor to the
notorious Nigerian dictatorship of the mid
1990s, helping the ultra-corrupt general Sani
Abacha as he looted billions from public
coffers. Abacha killed hundreds of
demonstrators and executed environmentalist
Ken Saro-Wiwa…”
These are Fashola’s bedmates, these are the
pigs that Fashola rolled with, and this is how
the former governor got dirty.
I recently engaged an activist who defended
Fashola; note that I did not use the word
“advocate” for this important person as I see
that later word which I use to categorize
myself as one that has to have a community
advocated for, one this person seems to loose
daily, unless advocacy for the Elite, Senators
and Cabal counts. So as I said, an activist
sought to defend Fashola’s spending N78
million on a website in his name. The activist
said he found it hard to see Fashola’s
corruption in this “trivial” sum when the
former governor handles trillions. Twitter
handle, #IBelong2Nobody @stanwalka
responded to him: “Mr, find time to read this.
Your argument holds no water this time
around. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Salami_slicing … @EveryNigerian
#SalamiTechnique…” Salami slicing: from little
here and there, we can covet billions. And
then, this “little” I bet was used to pay and
raise boy-boys, just as one day he too received
“little’s” to be raised. Again, “little” to you
maybe be all to me and mine.
N78 million would make Ikorodu road much
more pleasant for the millions of daily
commuters. For the awareness the website
allegedly brings, projects for the people will
sing the governor’s praise quadruple times
louder across the earth and to the heavens.
You may ask as I lay it bare against Fashola,
if I am a Saint myself. Of course not. Catch
me and lock me up and toss the key. In fact I
recently declared that if I had to volunteer to
be sentenced to jail as a condition for former
president Jonathan and his administration to
agree to be locked up and stop obstructing our
desperately needed war against corruption, I
will run to prison and auction my freedom.
For Nigeria to be better, I am willing to pay
the price even if it includes my liberty. That
our children will have a developed and sane
country to survive and be proud in, lock me
up!
It is time for Change. Nigeria has no place for
former g. overnors like Fashola and most of its
current Senators and Assemblymen. This war
will continue. We will speak the truth and
fight them till they stay with their pigs; away
from public office or public conversation.
We thank the Lord for Buhari and Osinbajo
who we know in their wisdom have no time
to talk to and accommodate these men and
women and their pig friends who have locked
Nigeria down for far too long.
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Hmmmn.......change

APC nah Scam

Nonsense rant.
Remove the best of the worst so that only the "worstest " remain.
You would have to go through all politicians before you get to Fashola.
The argument is not that he carted away $20 billion dollars. The argument is about whether a total IT Contract ,out of which the website is a component,is worth N78,000,000.
No of the accusations points to any kickback to fashola
Absolutely none.

oduastates:
Nonsense rant.
Remove the best of the worst so that only the "worstest " remain.
You would have to go through all politicians before you get to Fashola.
The argument is not that he carted away $20 billion dollars. The argument is about whether a total IT Contract ,out of which the website is a component,is worth N78,000,000.
No of the accusations points to any kickback to fashola
Absolutely none.

if this is what make u sleep at night , no wahala. I guess u have been initiated. no matter what they do u won't see it because u are blind.

Tinubu will monopolize West at the expense of the Yourubas if not tamed. Imagine victimizing Fashola for having the welfare of the masses against an Tinubu's interest. Fashola is a man of honour, I will vote him against my brother in a contest.

What has former Lagos state gov Fashola done to deserve these sudden media hype about his alleged corruptability Is this another example of ''From Grace To Grass'' Clearly some apc backroom powers are seriously working against him.
Anyway that's none of ma business.

Hmm some people just like to talk
Firstly is Ikorodu road fed.or state Road? Fed. Road
Secondly who's constructing the road now? State / Fashola


Form Me most of his policies are good, one thing people should know is its not possible for you to satisfy everybody