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Fhemmmy: i uses a small application called faststone . . . grab save the pix and post it

Thanks.
I just googled it (yeah!) and I see two options.
I guess its the "capture" that does what I need as opposed to the "image viewer", right

Ojeremi: End tym fins

Make you siddon there dey do follow follow end tym tinz because e dey trend, abi
These two guys nor too old pass you when dem bin start in 1995 oh.

naptu2: And transport https://www.nairaland.com/807356/osun-farmers-head-lagos-aregbesolas

Are you sure the "free" train ride to Lagos "markets" is still going on some two years after it was "launched" with so much fanfare

Fhemmmy: Page and Brin started it all in 1996 . . . Enjoy the information and see where they are NOW.

How did you post a picture of the web page?
Anyone else who knows how to can respond.
Thanks.

leighcon: Yes I know how it works (is it working?). See, the insincerity and corruption that prevails in the country is what makes the approach not to be apt. In the wake of the Tsunami that displaced people in Japan, people were queuing for relief materials and you will find that every man shows consideration for the other.

Here, I have seen relief materials (blankets, buckets, and other cheap things o!) in the house of a NEMA staff. Something he ought to distribute, he kept some to himself. Imagine if a lot of NEMA staff did that, then the relief materials won't get to the desired beneficiaries in spite of government's intentions.

As per the voucher method, one of the posters said he registered others and himself but I doubt the himself is a farmer. So if people registered their brothers, party members etc, the goal would be defeated. And the actual people who got vouchers are saying the fertilizers are not available at the outlets.

Bros! if we could be scammed in petroleum subsidy by big goons, how much more the fertilizer scheme that has less awareness. Some dudes must have been scamming the farmers, shikena!

I guess the pertinent comments here are:

* has there been an improvement in fertiliser availability to actual farmers, no matter how small the % improvement, due to the change in policy?
* the corruption is systemic and one may say it has shifted from the subisdy grabbers in Abuja to the ordinary guys, such as the poster you mentioned.

Given these elements what do you suggest

- cancel this new policy and revert to the old system of subsidy payment from Abuja.
- tweek this current policy as time goes on to REDUCE the systemic corruption.
- reduce the overall REMUNERATION GAP in the country between workers who EARN N18k minimum wage and political office holders and JOBBERS (such as the LGA councillors who RECEIVE a minimum 250k monthly) so as to increase attraction to rewarding smart hardwork.
- etc, etc.

BTW, you did not conclude your NEMA story.
What did you tell the CORRUPT staff of NEMA
How did he react to whatever you told him?

Is anybody from Fayemi's Ekiti state to give us an update about a similar launching of tablets almost two years ago.

https://www.nairaland.com/893547/ekiti-distributes-free-laptops

amnestylaw1: This is the kind of development that makes those of us living abroad home sick and want to return home. I schooled at OAU Ife and knew the havoc caused by the then PDP led governor Oyinola. I am not in Osun when Aregbe got back his mandate but I was perhaps happier than Aregbe when he was vindicated. As a full fledged Oyo State indigine, I rejoice with the good people of the State of Osun for embracing change and for the good things coming their ways.

E be like say na Estonia you dey gangan
Meanwhile in other news the LIE of AregbeRASCAL and his propagandists has been exposed yet AGAIN.

Oludo Bibire
Message 3 of 4 , Today at 04:58 AM
Alagba Daniel, they must have gotten the award from the Iya Osun groove after their initiation
Iro npairo fun ro
They always love riding cocroach hores to embark on their journey of shameless
On Sep 5, 2013 10:58 AM, "Omowaye Daniel" <daniel.omowaye@...> wrote:



Another Oluwole Award.

http://www.wsis-award.org/winners/e-learning-and-education

Where has the 1000 pieces of Opon Aimo won its own award?

O'daboo,

Daniel
"Tinubu and Aregbesola are CERTIFIED CROOKS"---(Afis Odidere, August 2009)

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http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/NIgerianWorldForum/conversations/topics/344419

From the web site of those who were supposed to have given the award to Aregberascal

http://www.wsis-award.org/winners/e-learning-and-education

there was NO award in 2013.
The last award was in 2011 and given to:

- China
- Canada
- UAE
- Russian Federation

More tech-savvy guys can do a picture of the 2011 and 2013 screens of the web site and post.
Thanks.

That my people may no longer PERISH for lack of KNOWLEDGE!!!

[quote author=Gbawe.]Oyinlola did not start it. Osun was part of an FG pilot school feeding scheme for many States (13 in total) which has been abandoned by all but Osun.[/quote]Do you want to continue spewing your propaganda rubbish and keep giving us the opportunity to show you for exactly what you are
Na your choice oh Misitah Gbawe.
There are states even in the north doing school feeding as recently as this report in July.

Nigeria approves fortified sorghum, soya beans for school feeding

Premium Times
Published: July 16,2013

The government said it is trying to curb malnutrition among children.

The Federal Government on Tuesday approved the use of fortified sorghum and soya bean in the school feeding programme.

Muhammed Zakari, Senior Information Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this in a statement in Abuja

The statement said that Ibukun Odusote, Permanent Secretary of the ministry made this known in Ilorin at a Workshop organised by the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM).

It quoted Mrs. Odusote as saying that the ministry had approved it as part of the diets for school feeding.

It said that this would help achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 of reducing child mortality and improved nutrition for children and improving maternal health before 2015.

“One in five children in Nigeria dies before his fifth birthday due to factors related to malnutrition which makes them more vulnerable to killer diseases’’, it said.

It said the workshop was designed to demonstrate how to prepare preferred fortified sorghum, maize and soya bean based food into novel foods to be used for school feeding.

According to the statement, the permanent secretary commended the Governments of Kano, Gombe and Bauchi States for participating in the school feeding programme.

It called on all other state governments to buy into and adopt the school feeding programme.

The programme, which was launched in September 2005, was aimed at improving the nutritional intake by at least 25 million children of school age in the country.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/national/141129-nigeria-approves-fortified-sorghum-soya-beans-for-school-feeding.html

You must be thinking this is still 1949 wey dem dey take pen pal letter dey do 419, abi?

https://www.nairaland.com/1425511/nigerian-yahoo-boys-scamming-westerners

django1: i think its an software that helps one to write in yoruba.

btw, guy, why are you always anti-progress?

Firstly thanks for your response about the yoruba writing.
I am not "anti-progress.
But I am definitely anti-SCAMMERS and anti-FRAUDSTERS, no matter their disguise in some borrowed "progressive" robes.
See the difference

[quote author=Gbawe.]Guys go and read the PDF below to know what Nigerian children are going through that Most governors do not care much about while their children are eating Gucci rice in the most expensive institutions of learning abroad. Even our west African neigbhours take school feeding program seriously to the extent, in the case of Ghana for example, they get UN aid to keep it going.[/quote]And who told you Oyinlola, as useless as he was on other matters, did not feed school children
So what's there to hail AregbeRASCAL for THIS particular "achievement"?
Maybe because he changed the name to O'Feeding abi na wetin sef- bunch of propagandists

You guys should stop trying to sell us monkey as baboon, una hear.
We don wise up.

ajanaku2: "In order to attain the Goals of Economic freedom and Prosperity, Nigeria must do certain things as a matter of urgency and priority; It must provide free Education (at all levels) and free Health facilities for the masses of its Citizens..."

- Chief Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀

How did you put the dots under the o & e?
Anyone else who knows can reply.
Thanks.

olaezebala: Come to think of it ooo. Opon-Imo don de win award wen dem never give am out to students. Warin e go come win wen students don start de get am self.

Na so we see am o, my bro.
2014 election things on my mind na ni, abi ke
You must give kudos to the ACN propaganda crew sha dem sabi hoodwink people nor be small.

obowunmi: WSA happens after WSYA. Are you sure you won? Or merely a finalist in this category?

Intersting observation.

bablogee: what stupid award. The so called OPON IMO is yet to be manufactured nor distributed to students when it was launched. Go to schools in osun state and you will be supprised with the ratio of teacher to student. The so called opon imon can not stand the test of time. Tell me, a student that can not manage a note book properly, how on earth can such student manage chinco opon imon.

Bro, why you dey spoil our jolly jolly mood now. We don get opon imo with even sef award from obodo ESTONIA (let's ignore for a moment where it is located) we don't need to address the BASIC matters of teacher to student ratio. Ok

sarcastic mode.

This is GEJ's fault as usual.
Or is it NOT

Where is the link to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report
Hope sey fire never burn am abi im don otherwise disappear!
What of the report in Wikipedia posted on July 8, 2013? That one sef nor get link ni

Omooba77: Where was Fani-kayode when Lagos, Ogun,Edo were doing same. All our parties are the same, because same people run our affairs.

Good question.
Very good question.
Maybe FFK has not seen this video of the Badagry LGA results anoouncement.


[url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W9iuKYbFc][/url]


Please wake me up when the loudmouth SOG starts burning Fashola's Lagos that announced the fake result in favour of ACN candidates who did not win in Badagry, Ikorodu etc even in Tinubu's Ikoyi LGA council- won by Obanikoro's son.

https://www.nairaland.com/1065618/tribunal-declares-obanikoro-son-local

Yeye dey boom for dem HYPOCRITES house!!!

oly4jesus: am an animal scientist seeking for job 08032193086 or spea2anel212@yahoo.com

Instead of simply "seeking for job" why not start by giving FREE advice online, like here, in a PARTIAL manner that shows you can give REAL VALUE to your clients. This can only be enhanced by your own practical research- remember GOOGLE is your friend. Thereafter you start charging them small fees and encourage them to grow their business, which will also allow you grow the fees you charge them.
It will also be useful if you do VOLUNTARY free services to cooperative societies at FIRST and charge them later when they get used to you and see the added value of your advice & service.
You can also raise some of the animals yourself, even if na to start on a small, micro basis.
Good luck!!!

solomon111: SECCEDE.!!!

Oyel money from Niger Delta (which includes some Igbo states) nor go gree dem wey talk sey dem ANCESTORS are from Lagos state!

[quote author=$£yi]If you really know Ibadan, man you will understand the great relieve this flyover has brought to the people of the city. Its actually worth praising the governor for actualizing it in his two years in office which his predecessor never thought of.[/quote]No problem praising Ajimobi for building the "gada".
That should not exclude asking VALID questions of accountability (as stated in Gbawe's old signature) on the value-for-money aspects, which is what the article is partly about.
Or do you say we should not be interested in evaluation of whether the value received is commensurate with the money spent

I guess you omitted that part of my post that stated that "no single flyover was built in ibadan since the return of democracy(1999-2011) by any governor, not until Ajimobi became the governor".
Has any state of the federation had any military governor since 1999 till date?
Can you find the year "1979"(the year molete bridge was built) between 1999 and 2013?

Abeg nor stress yourself like person wey nor sabi understand English properly.
Did you see this part of my post

Anyway, even a military governor

emiye: That guy decided to activate his conscience.

That election result was not in anyway close, it makes no sense trying to rig it.. Any sensible and sincere person knows it was rigged judging with certain surrounding circumstances.

Which kain yeye conscience be dat?
Like the flip-flop one of Madam Ayoka, the Ekiti state INEC commissioner
Abeg yarn another tori make we hear!

mekaboy: An APC member contesting under PDP, Rigged the election, won and rejected the result to disgrace PDP and win cheap political points for his main party APC.

All this things going on jst to ensure that power returns to the north in 2015. At the end of the day, the north might end up having 2 presidential candidates, Atiku and whoever APC chooses, but I see a lot of plans backfire before 2015.

And it is confirmed below:

muskaila114um: the story is true, am in offa right now. He made the statement at ARAB SUIT HOTEL where the APC are having there media briefing to the people. Offa is known for equity and justice whice the guy as just demostrated to the whole world not minding the political gain and d danger it impose on him

Obviously the guy na infiltrator and impersonator who finally showed where he belonged.
We should learn to analyse issues THOUROUGHLY before we get carried away by the tricks of these conmen!!!

Sincere 9gerian: If this govt is not building infrastructure it is creating ENABLING environment for private sector to thrive with multiplier effect in job and wealth creation.

FRESH AIR unlimited. This FRESH AIR will definitely suffocate enemies of progress

That is what a THOUGHTFUL leader does- focus on initiating & sustaining POLICIES for good environment that will encourage business men (& women too) to set up for profit, which the government regulates & taxes.
Unlike those selling us dummies about PPP projects with foreign bank loan smoke screen guarantees, that surreptiously adds up to the DEBT BURDEN of their states.

https://www.nairaland.com/1419395/lagos-cable-car-network-construction/2#17803339

When their greediness long throat scratch dem again dem go sey dem wan buy back the PPP concession for RIDICULOUS amounts.
YET some Mufutaus MUMUtaus go dey hail dem sey make we upgrade these conmen to the centre in Abuja.

https://www.nairaland.com/1424540/fasholas-lekki-road-scam-increased

Na so we dense reach

Rossikk: Why do we keep looking for govt to do these things? What stops a private developer from going to that beach and buying some land to build a resort there? Nothing! There's no way you're gonna tell me a serious investor cannot pay off those poor folks for some of their land. And once he builds a resort, (perhaps an all-inclusive resort with private beach) others will see he's making profit, and then develop theirs as well. Before you know it, the beach is filled with resorts, hotels, eateries, clubs, water parks etc and becomes a haven for tourists!

Very good, valid points.
As I have said other time- Government has no business doing business.

I guess this further shows how cluelessly unserious these ACN/APC guys are about POLICY.
They are obviously very strong in empty propaganda that ties in very well with music, entertainment and other effizy things while abandoning the BASIC services for the people whom they collect taxes from and on their BEHALF.

Was it not the other day these APC guys said they will focus on COAL, at their manifesto launch, as a RENEWABLE energy source
Now getting MI as ambassador for energy to further waste precious tax naira from residents of Lagos STATE.
Meanwhile people wey dem name nor be Mufutau MUMUtau go dey hail these bunch of scammers as VIABLE alternative to their fellow looters in PDP.
SMH!!!

or

2. Smooth Operator- Sade Adu


[url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOI8ae3Lub8][/url]

taharqa: Smoothest FRAUD in this country's history.

We might just ask residents of Lagos who bear the tax BURDEN of these scams to choose between these two songs, which one to play for Fahsola's next birthday:

1. Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson

[url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj4zNWW2nvY][/url]

[quote author=$£yi]Since Nigeria returned to democracy(in 1999) no single flyover was built by any governor that ruled Oyo state[/quote]So na overhead bridge dem take dey appraise governors now, not the BASIC services in the area of HUMAN CAPITAL development
I imagine the PDP governors who have built such bridges in their states should be getting serious awards from you and others.

Anyway, even a military governor built one in the same Ibadan. For those who may be having memory loss, a little reFRESH may be needed:

The last fly over was constructed by the Jemibewon administration in 1979 and still stands at Molete till today.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/05/19/challenge-and-mokola-to-get-fly-overs-in-ibadan/

saktoy83: Nonsense article, i dont know why ladoja shd criticize progress in ds way, afterall nothing of ds sort was done during his regime, tell him to face his buz and mellow abt politics.

Is Ladoja now part of the NPF?

Spokesperson of the state command of the Nigeria Police, DSP Bisi Ilobanafor, shortly after, issued a comprehensive report on the damage. According to her, “the barrier over the Mokola, Ibadan Flyover Bridge has been pulled down by a Mini-Tata vehicle which hit the barrier today (Tuesday).

A tricycle branded with NESCAFE advert forced its way while entering the bridge from Adamasingba area but on its way out heading towards Sango area, the height of the barrier was too low, so the driver immediately turned and headed back forcing its way out when the barricade fell on the highway.”

Ilobanafor continued that the Mini-Tata vehicle driver, Olakunle Akanji, had been arrested and detained at Mokola Police Station while further investigation was ongoing.

It should be obvious there is a mix-up in describing the Mini-Tata NESCAFE branded vehicle as a tricycle. It does not detract from the overall article on Ajimobi's falsehood of claiming a non-existent security report accusing some imaginary opposition for destroying the barrier instead of admitting the low quality of the barrier ab initio.

eldoradoxx: The way NSCDC operates today would give one impression that they are even worst than the police. I recently went to one of their state offices to release a client who was arrested for illegal oil bunkering. Come and see fight. From 9 in the morning. I went there I had issue with them till 5pm when I secured his release, I realised that it is better to deal with policemen who make no pretense of their desire to collect bribe and give u what u want than Nscdc who pretend to be tougher just to increase the amount they would demand as bribe( for those for give them and police my policy is "NEVER". Secondly, Nscdc has a valid case against the occupants of the building who decided to help themselves with some fuel/ crude oil they found inside their well. It is a strict liability offence. The mere fact that the product was in their well didn't make it theirs. Rather than report to police, they ought to report to nscdc who have jurisdiction on such matters and not the police. The landlord of the premises has a remedy in law against NNPC over the contamination of his underground water well by the latter's rupture pipline. Therefor I think OPD upon proper assessment of the situation would meet a legal brickwall if evidence emerges that occupants of the houses rather than report to nscdc of what they discovered in their wells, decided to scoop the petroleum product.

Thanks for bringing a LEARNED man's viewpoint to this thread.
This makes Fashola's action look very bad on AT LEAST two counts:

1. He is a lawyer. Oh no, what am I even saying. He is not an ordinary lawyer but a SENIOR Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.
2. As a yoruba man, who claims his ANCESTORS are from Lagos state he must have heard the adage:

O ba efon l'abata o yo obe ti. O se bi omi l'omu ku ni? - You find dead bushmeat for forest come carry knife dey butcher am. You think sey na water e drink so tey e come die

As I posted earlier, even as a layman in legal matters, our SAN "excellent progressive" governor will most likely quietly withdraw his order to the OPD just as he did for the NGF/Amaechi case. We go dey wait am for this NL.

[quote author=walex_biz]fashola is being sentimental, why cant he himself start by telling OPD to sue Lastma for their daily misconduct. I think of recent the lagos state government as being acting irrationally this days.[/quote]He won't do that because his crowd of intellectually lazy and emotionally high supporters will not clap for him on it.
Moreover as CEO of Lagos state he should rather ensure the LASTMA agbero stunts do not happen in the first place by giving them

- adequately QUALIFIED and well paid manpower not the ex-touts & area boys currently there.
- adeqate TRAINING with regular refresher courses on customer service. Yes, I said customer service and human rights.

iorfy: the Nıgerıan medıa needs to partner wıth securıty agencıes ın curbın crımes related to vanderlısatıon of crude oıl products,the bıased manner they seem to be reportın thıs ıssue ıs soo Alarmın,we must not 4get the fact that Ejıgbo ıs an area ın lagos and lagosıans are notorıous for makın quık cash through takıng advantages of unfortunate ıncıdences,those resıdents were actually caught wıth jerrıcans of pms stealıng ıt,the polıce are not ın anycase under the law permıtted to handle cases of vanderlısatıon or any case relatın to pms,ıgnorance ıs not an escuse ın the court of law.ı want to let us here know that those arrested were not ınnocent.

Fashola obviously understand the people he RULES very well. That they are mostly shallow & lazy in seeking knowledge about events & incidents before concluding based on emotions.

Hopefully after the media spin don finish he will quietly tell his OPD to withdraw the case BUT we will be watching and mark this space to refer to this KNEE-JERK reaction from someone who should know better.
Was that not how he withdrew the NGF (Amaechi) case after wasting Lagos taxpayers money on it
I guess the LASU students were right when they said being a SAN does not mean you are SANE after he increased the school fees to 250k from 25k for a school built by the REAL progressive ACTION governor who had much LESS budget per capita and did much MORE for Lagosians!!!

Mokola flyover: Ajimobi’s spin doctors exposed

THE much trampled people of Oyo State woke up on a certain morning to the saddening report that some disgruntled members of the opposition in the state had connived the night before to destroy the precious and (in) famous Mokola flyover.

Naturally, for a city that has been a political capital of the most sophisticated south west of Nigeria for close to a century now, but which was only provided such an architectural feat a few months ago, there was a sense of outrage.

Unfortunately as usual, the government of Alhaji Abiola Ajimobi, once again, seized the opportunity of an unfortunate incident to score cheap political point as well as cover up a shame that will accompany top hierarchy of the regime long after they would have been ignobly kicked out of office.

On that innocent morning, Special Assistant to Governor Ajimobii on Media, Festus Adedayo, through a press statement entitled: “Ibadan Flyover barrier demolished” accused the opposition of having made real, an earlier threat to pull down the barrier. He added that government was in receipt of security report that some political thugs were being commissioned by the opposition to demolish the flyover.

https://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mokola-Bridge.jpg

Coming on the heels of frantic demands by some patriotic citizens of the state for the administration to come clean on the apparently over bloated amount being bandied as cost of the flyover, it was easy to decipher where the insinuations were directed at.

Of course, for an administration desperately seeking sympathy as a diversionary strategy for its frivolity, lack of accountability and flagrant disregard for due process and value for money, it was an opportunity to heap the blame for a badly executed job on some phantom opposition members. Since it would be a shame to admit that something slightly bigger than a tricycle (a Tata minibus) was responsible for the shattering of a project that cost a whooping N3 billion, the Alaparutu Peoples’ Convergence (APC) must see the absent finger of its opponents in the destruction, otherwise, tax payers would be outraged.

Well, Adedayo, quoting a certain Kayode Adepoju, Special Adviser on Infrastructure had told the world that the administration was in procession of some security reports, which blamed the opposition for damaging the barrier on the flyover before the minibus hit it.

[b]The question to ask these spin doctors is: who prepared the security reports? Spokesperson of the state command of the Nigeria Police, DSP Bisi Ilobanafor, shortly after, issued a comprehensive report on the damage. According to her, “the barrier over the Mokola, Ibadan Flyover Bridge has been pulled down by a Mini-Tata vehicle which hit the barrier today (Tuesday).

A tricycle branded with NESCAFE advert forced its way while entering the bridge from Adamasingba area but on its way out heading towards Sango area, the height of the barrier was too low, so the driver immediately turned and headed back forcing its way out when the barricade fell on the highway.”

Ilobanafor continued that the Mini-Tata vehicle driver, Olakunle Akanji, had been arrested and detained at Mokola Police Station while further investigation was ongoing. And to prevent other vehicles from being trapped as a result of the damage, the mini-Tata vehicle had been used to barricade the other end of the bridge so that, oncoming vehicle will not collide with the barricade and that the construction firm had also been contacted to ensure that the barricade was immediately replaced.[/b]

Diametrically opposed information

Since the police have a diametrically opposing information on the incident to that of the state government, it will be of great interest to discerning members of the public if operatives of the government would disclose the source of their “security reports”. These spin doctors that pretended to be the people’s saviour when they were canvassing for votes in 2007 but have now been exposed for what they are, had insinuated that the barrier was damaged the previous night only for the mini-Tata truck to complete the knocking down in broad day light.

As the man at the saddle, Governor Abiola Ajimobi has the responsibility to steer the ship of the state together with his team. However, the electorate should remain the masters and deserve to be treated with dignity and decorum. It is most unfair for operatives of the government to act as if the citizenry is daft and unable to differentiate between wrong and right. Before Ajimobi emerged as governor of the state, he never spared his predecessor.

At the national level, the APC has been quite strident in its criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan. So, it should normally be expected that such a party will be tolerant of critical appraisal of its activities. Incidentally, this is not the case as the administration is completely paranoid of criticism and intolerant of opposition.

Responding to issues raised by the anchor of Splash FM personality interview programme, former Governor Rasidi Ladoja, had deployed his acumen as an engineer to point at perceived irregularities in the contracting details of the purported N3 billion flyover. A responsible, responsive and transparent administration should have become sobered by the fact that it was caught in the act and not embark on a propaganda trip to try to evade the real issues.

[b]A simple question begging answer that will forever put agitations over the N3 billion flyover contract sum is: why did the 470 metres Mokola Flyover cost N3 billion while 1,056 metre Flyover in Abeokuta in addition to another 2.4 kilometre road cost only N1.5 billion? Why did it become so burdensome for a democratic government to explain the rationale behind the award of any contract?

The State commissioner for Information, Pastor Taiwo Otegbeye, was also a guest of Splash FM where he said compensation was paid to those whose houses were demolished to pave way for the flyover.

Well, the construction was only a recent development and it is also known that no single house was demolished save for the wall fence of the WEMA Bank. In Abeokuta, houses, shops/stalls were pulled down and the cost of compensation was still embedded in the stated contract sum with victims duly relocated. How much did the Oyo State Government pay to WEMA Bank for the fence that will justify this astronomical difference in the two scenarios?[/b]

The confusion of Oyo citizens being made hapless by their decision to vote APC was further compounded few weeks after the interview when , Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Survey, Bimbo Kolade declared that compensation was yet to be paid to any displaced person as those affected refused to present their claims. So, how do one now reconcile all the conflicting statements emanating from operatives of the same government?

As law abiding, legitimate and bona fide citizens of Oyo State, we challenge Oyo state government to come out with comprehensive list of those compensated because their properties were destroyed in the process of constructing the Mokola Flyover.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/mokola-flyover-ajimobis-spin-doctors-exposed/

No wonder Ajimobi's administration did not adopt the FOI at the state level.
These na original Jeun s'oke, Jeun s'apo (Increase taxes-IGR for your own pocket) "progressives".
SMH!!!

Posers for Lagos over N25.3b road concession buyout plan .

Residents fear fraud, exploitation through scheme

KEY actors in the Lagos State government are upbeat that the concession buyout plan for the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe expressway is in the interest of Lagos residents. But some members of the public are sceptical of government’s motive in the multi-billion naira purchase.

The state government plans to re-acquire the concession right of Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe expressway and purchase its managing company – Lekki Concession Company (LCC).

The 49.36km road is to be bought at an estimated sum of N25.3 billion . The road has never been immune from controversies since it opened in 2008, and Lagos residents are at this time asking: “in whose interest is the new buyout plan, the masses or the authorities?”

The concession buyout plan came to the fore last week Tuesday, when Governor Babatunde Fashola’s letter on the “2013 Supplementary Budget proposal” was read at the Lagos State House of Assembly.

In the proposal, Fashola stated that it had become necessary to further amend this year’s budget due to unforeseen developments in terms of the state’s internally-generated revenue performance and emerging financial commitments.

Central to the “emerging financial commitments”, according to the governor, is the need to fund the acquisition of existing concession rights and toll revenue benefits held by the LCC, the concessionaire for the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe expressway.

“This will effectively accelerate the transfer of ownership of the road to the state, leaving the state with wider policy options with regard to that important road infrastructure,” Fashola’s letter read in part.

To meet this demand, the governor proposed a re-ordering of some expenditure provisions and also direct supplementation of the 2013 budget, given an upward review from N499, 605 billion earlier signed into law on January 2, 2013 to N507, 105 billion (a N7.5billion increase).

At the event of Tuesday, there was an apparent sense of urgency in the proposal and the planned concession buyout. Not only were the Lagos lawmakers forced out of their three-week-old recess, to expedite action on the proposal, the state government had also prepared the trio of commissioner of budget and economic planning and his counterparts in finance and works and infrastructure to attend the emergency plenary and answer lawmakers’ questions, paving the way for a speedy passage of the bid.

The Commissioner for Finance, Ayodeji Gbeleyi, upon questioning, said to acquire the LCC holding, the state would be paying N15 billion for the buyout; N6.8 billion to service existing debt obligations and N3.5 billion for third-party liability, totaling N25.3 billion.

However, the question on the mind of the public is who stands to benefit from this buyout ?

A businessman in Lekki, Olusegun Ashimiyu, told The Guardian in an interview that the purchase seemed good on the surface, but that it was not likely that the masses would get any benefit from it.

He said: “The only benefit anyone plying that route can hope to get is the outright removal of tolling on that route. But if I know this government very well, then the era of tolling will assume a new dimension and possibly grow worse than what we are seeing currently,” Ashimiyu said.

Another Lagos resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed misgivings on the project. “We foresaw something of this nature right from the beginning of this protest. That is why we demonstrated against toll collection and we were locked up then.

“There are some people that are benefiting from this project, and this is another attempt to scoop from the state treasury. Don’t forget, this is the fund that could have gone into infrastructural development in other parts of the state,” the respondent said.

Continuing, he said: “The entire project needs thorough probe. Yes, the state government is doing very well but there are just some things that are not right about its programme. We need to know who signed what and at what rate it has been given. How much has the government paid into it and how much left and where is it going? The state belongs to all of us, and not to a small clique trying to buy over everything, without consideration for the public,” he said.

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Fascist Fashola doing what he has done best these past six years- revenue generation from the pockets, handbags, wallets and bags of RESIDENTS of Lagos state- for his own personal account.
Meanwhile BASIC services of:

- free and COMPULSORY education for ALL children in Lagos
- feeder roads
- potable water
- free quality PRIMARY health care

are neglected by the "excellent progressive" governor leading to increased menace of area boys in his state!!!