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Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by haryorbarmie83(m): 6:19pm On Dec 11, 2018
May we never witness PDP era in this country again in Jesus mighty name. (Amen)
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by Ziggylady(f): 6:24pm On Dec 11, 2018
notoriousbabe:
No dick is bigger than a baby's head. Unnecessary screaming during sex should end in 2018


Who is this thing again?..what a repugnant dolt!
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by notoriousbabe: 6:26pm On Dec 11, 2018
Ziggylady:



Who is this thing again?..what a repugnant dolt!
No dick is bigger than a baby's head. Unnecessary screaming during sex should end in 2018
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by wideawaken01: 6:37pm On Dec 11, 2018
God will punish you and your destiny. It is your destiny PDP looted.

Where did this fool got money to sponsor Buhari's election. ?
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by jayzin(m): 6:40pm On Dec 11, 2018
Look at this shameless man �... Apc is looting the future and mortgaging the life of Nigerians alive and generations unborn..
Tell us your achievements as a minister and not what PDP did..
APC has not achieved anything but created hardship and pain to Nigerians...
#kickAPCOUT2019
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by kolaish(m): 6:50pm On Dec 11, 2018
This man looks frustrated and is beginning to sound like a broken record.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by bigpicture001: 6:52pm On Dec 11, 2018
Ehiscotch:
Fashola's good work is backfiring. He is busy completing projects that were "initiated" by the past administration and instead getting applauded for this Buhari and himself are being mocked for being incapable of starting their own projects.

This is the state we have found Nigeria. Too many messed up minds.

Keep up the good work and don't let their stupid criticisms deter you.
...tell me which power generation project the fool hs undertaken..?
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by Great2017: 6:59pm On Dec 11, 2018
Ehiscotch:


Nonsense. Do you think massive looting over 16 years would never have an effect? The finance minister even warned GEJ that the economy was about to experience recession if they didn't save. Did they save? Where are the critical infrastructure that should have been put in place during the rainy day? When oil prices were shooting up and other countries were busy fixing their problems what were we doing? Why couldn't state governors pay salaries? Because allocation dropped; revenue dropped and kept dropping. You think owing months of salaries would not affect the economy?

Yes. There is corruption in this government (like any other government in the world) but the PDP would have been worse.
Liar, How much was crude oil price in 1999?
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by bigpicture001: 7:01pm On Dec 11, 2018
This fashola man is highly overrated, just because he served as governor in a state that has the national spotlight. He cannot be compared with PETER OBI in all ramifications.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by Modarun(m): 7:11pm On Dec 11, 2018
By Tunde George & Kasali Martins
tundegeorge20@yahoo.com, kasalimartins1960@yahoo.com
thetruefaceoflagos@gmail.com
0807 266 2201, 081 249 8568, 0813 296 7667
We are tax payers residents in Lagos who are desperately desirous of accountability since taxes have recently become major revenue of Lagos State government. In the developed societies where a similar revenue regime operates, associations such as ours have acted as Government Watchdogs, which is why some of us have decided to take up the gauntlet of championing the cause of taxpayers in the state. After all if we don’t pay our taxes, government can charge and eventually jail us.
In the last ten years, tax revenue has come to constitute about 75 per cent of government revenue base, yet, the government never bothers to render account to tax payers in Lagos . In the last three years alone, a colossal sum of 1.1 trillion naira was budgeted by Fashola’s government with the government itself affirming that it has consistently recorded a minimum of 75 per cent of budget performance out of which 80 per cent came from Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). This is 30 per cent more than the entire budgets recorded by successive governments between 1992-2007-a period spanning 15 years.
Today, the total tax revenue of Lagos on a monthly basis hovers between N14 and N17 billion naira while federal allocations come to N6 billion Naira monthly. This is more than the revenue of seven states put together on a monthly basis. But how has the governor been spending the money? While we note the heavy investments in roads and environmental infrastructure mainly and commendably so, there is the need to question some of the ways the governor has been expending tax money which in our opinion reflects financial recklessness, mismanagement, gross constitutional violations and abuse of office.
Set below are some of the expenditures which the government claimed to have incurred on behalf of ‘Lagosians’ and which we feel were mere avenues to corruptly enrich some privileged individuals in and out of government and to which the state House of Assembly under the tutelage of ‘governor emeritus’ otherwise known as the Lion of Bourdillon has become an accomplice covering up a lot of misdeeds on the part of the executive. Just last week, it was alleged that each member of the House was given a sum of 20million naira through a lawyer member of the House from the Lagos west senatorial district, the constituency of the governor emeritus himself. When this was about to be leaked to the press, the Lion of Bourdillon used his powerful media contacts through two of his former aids who are media chieftains to suppress the leakage. Were this not to be the case, we would have otherwise sent these complaints to the House of Assembly. But since we no longer trust this pliant House of Assembly, we have decided to go public with the following:
1. Last year, Fashola (BRF) gave N250 million to Rotimi Akeredolu led Exco of NBA for the NBA conference held in Lagos . At a time when Lagos teachers and doctors were on strike for improved welfare package.
2. The BRF government within 6 months, January to June 2009 spent N420 million on hiring of private security – to guard who – despite his heavy investment in the Police Force through the State Security Trust Fund.
3. BRF spent N1.5 billion to demolish the Bank of Industry (BOI) building, paying a company introduced by one Tunji Olowolafe in cash transfer only for him and his cronies to claim the land adjacent to it.
4. BRF government awarded part of Western Avenue ( Funsho Williams Road ), about 2 kilometres road for N7.7 billion just between Abalti Barracks and Costain. And without the construction of any bridges, the project was carried out by Julius Berger. This project must certainly be investigated.
5. Between January and June 2009, the BRF government claimed to have fuelled 225 vehicles in his office alone with N135 million. These figures amount to about N800, 000 per day, at a time that petrol was sold for N65 per litre and government always get it cheaper, but BRF claimed to have bought it at N85 per litre.
6. Also between January and June 2009, BRF’s Chief of Staff and PAs expended N290 million in sending TEXT Messages and phone CALLS on their lines.
7. It is also very sickening to know that the BRF government awarded the construction of a road and drains inside Gbagada General Hospital for over N1.8 billion to the same Tunji Olowolafe’s company (DEUX Projects Limited).
8. The sum of 1.5 billion naira of un-appropriated funds, without approval was claimed to have been spent on demolition of Oshodi.
9. The Helicopter Deal – was a big fraud. The helicopter was not built for any kind of emergency evacuation, rescue or to even combat urban fire. Over N5 billion has been spent on the two helicopters. And, the seal of Lagos State is not on it, and it is not even in Lagos but in the Niger Delta making money for some private people in government. The whole helicopter deal stinks to high heavens; it constitutes the biggest governmental fraud of all times and confirms the rot in the State. See ThisDay December 19, 2009
10. The SSA (Media) to BRF spent N183 million in 6 months on press coverage and on editors outside the approved budget but funded directly from the Governor’s Office.
11. In a State where children are sitting on the floor in classrooms, where unemployment is rampant and poverty pervasive. BRF paid a lady wife of a controversial pastor over N600 million in 2 years for Xmas Decorations for about six streets in Lagos.
12. In Six months between January and June 2009, BRF spent on several faceless organisations, subventions, grants and donations and they quickly pocketed N2 billion.
THE RIPPING OFF OF LAGOS – ESSENTIAL DETAILS
1. The BRF government recklessly increased and paid over 60% increase on the LASU – IBA road awarded by the Bola Tinubu government for N6.2 billion but was jerked up to N10 billion less than 2 weeks that BRF came on board.
2. Also, the Tinubu administration awarded the construction of City Hall for N2.3 billion. BRF only changed the floor tiles to marble tiles and increased the contract sum to N5.2 billion. This project was increased by 126%.
3. Publishing of INDICATOR Magazine, is falsely presented to the public as a private magazine but is actually co-ordinated by Tunji Olowolafe and Hakeem Bello, SSA (Media) to BRF with government money.
4. BRF recently gave a media-related Permanent Secretary, and some others the sum of N100 million to do a soap opera on himself. They are presently in London recording the film.
5. The BRF government has failed woefully in the area of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in three years. Yet, BRF is paying the PPP boss in Lagos State N2 million per month in violation of the Constitution, when even commissioners recognised by the Constitution are receiving N300,000 per month. The PPP guy is the highest paid government official presiding over a non-performing and failed parastatal.
6. The Beautification Programme of Fashola administration is reeking with corruption. In a State where there is no water, where over 90 per cent of the road in Lagos is in a deplorable state of disrepair, he is spending over N13 billion on planting grass and flowers. Most of the money was spent to import Palm trees from Niger Republic , a sahel region when Lagos is in the rain forest which explains why most of them have dried up,
7. Also, it is important to note that the renovation of classrooms of usually 12 blocks plus one which was done for N26 million by the Tinubu administration up till 2007 was increased to N53 million with the collaboration of the housing commissioner who is supervising projects in the education ministry.
8. CCTV project was awarded to BRF’s relation who claimed to be acting for CISCO. The contract was awarded for $62 million dollars, while the rejected quote for the contract was $30 million. It is important to note that this is only a pilot scheme.
9. BRF’s wife travels abroad once bi-monthly and takes N30 million per trip from the State coffers, apart from her monthly running cost.
10 The mother of all rip off is the award to DEUX PROJECT LIMITED, a company owned by the powerful Tunji Olowolafe 11 out of 19 contracts in the Lagos State Ministry of health between January and August 2009. Out of N5.6 billion naira contract in the Ministry of Health, Olowolafe alone collected N5.1 billion worth and was paid 70% upfront in cash.
OTHER QUESTIONS
1. Why did BRF divert N1.85 billion in the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to a project that was not originally provided for in the budget and promptly awarded to Olowolafe?
2. Why is Lawyer BRF’s administration illegally deducting funds from the statutory allocation of the Local Governments in Lagos State ?
3. Why was the Mayegun Scheme which was sold to Olowolafe and other friends and cronies against public interest without any independent valuation by relevant agency of government? Why is the size of the scheme shielded in secrecy? Why was N5.2 billion for which the land sold untraceable? Where is the over N2 billion loan borrowed to sand-fill the place? What is the fate of the Tourism and Art-craft sellers chased away from the place?
4. Pinnacle – why did the governor and his cronies engage in questionable transfer of 400 hectares of land to Pinnacle, South Africa, when it is known that the company is almost bankrupt and the ABSA Bank now owns over 60% of the Company. What nature of PPP is this? The world is watching!
5. Why was the illegal sand-filling of about 1 km in the Badagry – Marina awarded for N1.5 billion out of which N700 million has been paid and yet the contractors and the Tourism Ministry have completely destroyed all the historical relics and artefacts in the area? It has also created an environmental disaster for West Africa because of greed. And it appears the Commissioner has been settled.
FASHOLA AND CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS
1. Flagrant and deliberate disregard for the Appropriation law passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly, in violation of Section 120 of the 1999 Constitution.
2. Criminal diversion of funds without due approval of the Lagos State House of Assembly, in further violation of Section 120 (3) of the 1999 Constitution.
3. Indiscriminate award of contracts without due process, without following the laid down financial regulation as well as the public procurement guidelines. The payment of such contracts is in violation of Part (E) Section 120(4) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
4. Most Ministries, Departments, Parastatals sometimes do not know when contracts are awarded in their names and for what purpose, they only find out later. And they don’t know when payments to contractors are made by the State Treasury Office. This is in further violation of Section 121(2) of the 1999 Constitution.
5. Illegal and unwarranted deductions from the statutory Allocation of the local governments. This is in direct contravention of Public Revenue Provision of the 1999 Constitution and in violation of Section 162 sub-section 6, 7 and 8.
6. Opening of illegal and unconstitutional Dedicated Accounts which is contrary to the provision of the 1999 Constitution and which Revenue Monitoring Agency is unaware of. This act is in direct violation of Section 120(1) of the 1999 Constitution.
7. Office of the Chief of Staff which is unknown to the Constitution has more staff than any other Ministry in Lagos State . This violation is very grave as it is in direct breach of the Governor’s Oath of Office in the 7th Schedule of the 1999 Constitution Section 13 and a gross violation of Sections 192, 193 and 208(2d) of the 1999 Constitution.
8. Indiscriminate borrowing by the Ministry of Finance without legislative approval, which the Finance Commissioner calls Bridging Loans, is a grave assault on Fiscal Federalism, a coup against Financial Regulations and a shameful and criminal violation of Section 120(1), (2), (3) and (4) of the 1999 Constitution.
9. Concentration of over 70% of Lagos State Government contracts in the hands of one Tunji Olowolafe. This is the clearest indication of the betrayal of trust by Governor Fashola, it is against the Oath of Office he swore to, it is a violation of Sections 14(4), 15(5) and 17(2a) of the 1999 Constitution on which social objective of a just, free and equitable social order is founded.
10. Arbitrary use of Special Expenditure Vote for activities not originally provided for under the Appropriation Law. This is a further betrayal of Fiscal Federalism and a violation of provisions of Section 120(3) and (4), and Section 123(1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution.
11. Payment of 70% up-front to persons and cronies for contracts not yet executed. Similarly, this is a contravention of Section 120(4) of the 1999 Constitution.
12. Giving arbitrary donations to selective professional associations and faceless organisations for acting as sycophants without appropriate authorisation by relevant constitutional bodies. This is a clear violation of sections 120(4) and 123 of the 1999 Constitution
13. The fraudulent purported acquisition of 2 Bell 412 EP Series Helicopters from a Canadian firm constitute a flagrant violation of Section 123(1) and (2) and Section 120(4) of the 1999 Constitution.
14. Furthermore, the award of contract of courts and other Judicial Infrastructure as well as procurement for the Judiciary in Lagos State by the Attorney-General, Tunji Olowolafe and Governor Fashola is in gross violation of Section 121(3) of the 1999 Constitution.
In all these aberrations, the Lagos State House of Assembly has kept mute, and the House has become inept, achaic, drab, docile and inefficient. All the noise by Mr. Speaker about accountability and probity be only to enable house members line their pockets and feed fat on the sweat and toil of the people of the State?
Is it also true that they have been given their own share of the loot, they are maintaining undignified silence over the report of the ad hoc Committee set up to look into the books and activities of the Lagos State Government pursuant to Section 103 of the 1999 Constitution with powers expressly provided in sections 1a, b(i) and (ii), as well as Section 129 1 a b c and d.
We are aware that the report has been submitted since November 2009, so why is the Lagos State House of Assembly still sitting on the report? This is just a tip of the ice berg of financial recklessness by the Lagos executive led the seemingly performing governor Fashola! More soon.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by new2012: 7:22pm On Dec 11, 2018
I agree with Fashola, PDP looted APC's jobs, money and senses.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by elderken(m): 7:59pm On Dec 11, 2018
This mad man and his party finally killed Nigerians. Am I the only one noticing that these idiot has nothing intelligent to say. Fashola the moronic SAN.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by Nobody: 8:25pm On Dec 11, 2018
I hope Fashola knows that hypocrisy is arguably the worst sin a man can commit.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by Elektronisch(m): 9:01pm On Dec 11, 2018
MondayOsunbor:
Somebody please tell APC that they are in power now no longer the opposition party

Sorry sir, but this your moniker...hmmm. I dey fear o!
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by ClearFlair: 11:32pm On Dec 11, 2018
Tell them sir.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by waveman2: 11:55pm On Dec 11, 2018
So pdp was also ruling Lagos State in 2015.Corruption calling others corrupt.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by 2buffagain(m): 12:18am On Dec 12, 2018
You monkeys just need to vote for SOWORE and stop making fools of yourselves. Neither APC nor PDP will help you. Elect a tech empowered government and stop being so fawking analog dammit.
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by MrSly(m): 1:04am On Dec 12, 2018
StateNews:
The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola SAN, on Monday, blamed the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party for abandoned federal government projects across the country.

He stated this while inspecting the building project of the federal secretariat, Awka, Anambra State.

He described the corruption during the PDP era as monumental, adding, “They looted our collective destiny, prospects, jobs and so on.

“That’s why the masses are suffering today. That’s why there are no jobs. But we (APC) are trying to bring back smiles on the faces of Nigerians.”

He said the 18-kilometer Umunya axis of the Onitsha/Enugu Expressway would be completed in May, 2019, while the federal secretariat, Awka, the state capital would  be completed the first quarter of next year.

Fashola, said the Buhari government inherited those projects because past governments failed to complete them as a result  of corruption.

“They awarded the contract without paying contractors, and when you don’t pay contractors you create problems down the labour ladder.

“This man here told me that he gets N30,000 per week. With such fund he will patronise pubs in the evening by eating Isiewu (goat head) and drinking with his friends in the evening and through such way wealth is distributed and redistributed; jobs are created.

“For instance, the contract for  this federal secretariat  was awarded in 2012 by the previous administration without making funds available for its completion. If the money meant for it was not stolen, it would have been completed before now.

“We are bringing back what was denied the people in the past to them; that’s the difference between a development administration and a corrupt regime,” the minister stated.

source :
StateReporters news
http://www.statereporters.com/2018/12/11/pdp-looted-destiny-prospects-jobs-fashola/
Hypocritical fashola is still their kindred destiny not ours. Meanwhile who is the true owner of Ekoi parcels?
Re: PDP Looted Our Destiny, Prospects, Jobs – Fashola by seguno2: 3:31am On Dec 13, 2018
chivera018:
at least when PDP looted, the economy was a lot better, the country was much better during their looting period.

APC that have not looted, look how hard the country is now.
They are only good at blame game.

Don’t let APC propaganda deceive you. They have looted and stolen more money than PDP could ever have done.
APC of Buhari, Tinubu, Okorocha, Orji Uzor Kalu, Obanikoro etc?
Are you kidding me

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