Lawmaker representing Lagos West Senatorial district, Senator Solomon Adeola has described as untrue reports that there is fraud in the implementation of the N50m donation he made as palliatives to his constituents to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also said rather than joining hands with the federal government and Lagos state, it is unfortunate that some people are trying to politicise the issue of the palliatives.

While giving out the donation, Adeola said it would go to 15,000 persons identified in his constituency as part of relief measures in the face of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.

“In addition to all measures taken by the National Assembly as donation and palliative towards the fight against COVID-19, I deem it fit to go a step further in view of the huge population of the District and the many poor and vulnerable constituents and I urge constituents to see the donation as my contribution to lessen the inconveniences of the lockdown with a view to return of normalcy soon.”

However, a group under the aegis of Political Renewal’ claimed that the donation by Adeola, who is the Chairman of Senate Committee on Finance was fraudulent and not transparent.

“The N50 million cash gifts by Senator Adeola to people of the Lagos West has “turned out to be a fraud after all”.

According to the group, their investigations revealed that though money was shared among the 28 Local Government Areas —10 LGs and 18 LCDAs— constituting the Senatorial District, the amount was a far cry from the N50 million said to have been expended by the Senator popularly known as Yayi.

“The purported N50 million, if divided by the 28 local councils in his district, ought to be N1.7 million per local government. Divide this by seven which is an average number of wards in each local government and you get N255,000 per ward,” the Group explained.

“Virtually all of the Chairmen of APC Local Governments branches in the Senatorial District disclosed that the sum of N100,000 was sent to each Council to be shared to the seven wards thus making it about N14,000 per ward. This is what Senator Yayi is coming up with for the five years he has been Senator.”

The group wondered how N100,000 could be shared to thousands of party faithful in each Local Government, not to talk of the entire populace.

They therefore, unanimously resolved to reject the amount which if added together is a paltry N2.8 million, a far cry from the N50 million announced to the world.

“This act by the Senator is not new. Since assumption of office, the Senator had never deemed it fit to recourse back to his constituents, neither had he initiated any tangible project that would benefit them,” the statement concluded.

However, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Kayode Odunaro, the Senator described the statement of the group as blatant falsehood and an attempt to politicise the issue of palliatives during the lockdown.

“The attention of Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West) and chairman Senate Committee on Finance 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.

“He also stressed 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 satisfy that the palliative is achieving its goal on targeted persons, families and group without any controversy”, he stated.

Senator Adeola said the ongoing disbursement which enters its 5th day is being implemented by a 6 –member Committee in each of the 10 LGAs and 18 LCDAs of Lagos West with replication at the ward levels adding that beneficiaries cut across individuals, families and groups like market women associations and League of Imams with sums ranging from #2,500 for individuals and graduated upward from #5000 to #250,000 for families and groups based on need.

The senator said he remain focus in discharging his duties as a senator which credible achievements for constituents including facilitation of skill acquisition training for over 4000 women and youth and 4 ICT Centers in 4 Secondary schools since the commencement of the 9th Senate stressing however that his donation is his modest contribution in the fight against COVID-19 that is a global pandemic and not a political payback.
https://www.independent.ng/my-n50m-donation-to-lagos-west-constituents-not-a-fraud-senator-adeola/

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Insensitive leaders everywhere in the country.

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APC thieves

APC is a party of thieves and liars.