₦airaland Forum

LeoDeKing:
The best president Nigeria ever had since precolonial era.

He mixes both constitutional and non constitutional approach to address any problem.

Excess crude account, but nullified by Gej

Capitalisation of Banks, saved Nigerians from bank CEOs such as Cecillia Ibru the thief.

EFCC to track criminals

Paris Debt relief

To mention but few.

How can a well informed person say that Jonathan nullified Excess Crude Account?
Would you agree that only a well informed liar, distortion expert and propagandist can say such

FG, States, LGs Share N568.4 Billion for Oct
15 NOVEMBER 2013

Also, $1billion was proposed for distribution to complement shortfall in expected revenue." The $1billion is a compromise by the FG over its words in September not to augment shortfalls anymore.

Responding to the presentation, the chairman of the States Commissioners of Finance and Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Mr Timothy Odaah, lamented that the statutory allocation was getting smaller and smaller. "It appears this is the worst in terms of returns. This is the least in allocations as far as this year is concerned. We are mourning the dearth of funds and this is a wakeup call for states and local governments to buoy up their internally generated revenue."

While appreciating the "magnanimity" of President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the $1billion from the excess crude account and to be shared among the federal, state and local governments, Odaah expressed disappointment with the returns made by the NNPC.

He said that the states had requested for $2bn to complement for the shortfall in revenue but got only $1billion. In September, Odaah and fellow commissioners had walked out of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) when the federal government said that the framework of the 2013 budget was no longer realistic and it won't augment shortfall in revenue. Odaah raised issues with the statutory allocations of previous months.

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LeoDeKing:
The best president Nigeria ever had since precolonial era.

He mixes both constitutional and non constitutional approach to address any problem.

Excess crude account, but nullified by Gej

Capitalisation of Banks, saved Nigerians from bank CEOs such as Cecillia Ibru the thief.

EFCC to track criminals

Paris Debt relief

To mention but few.

The best who contributed the most to what our country is experiencing now, but wants to be seen on the same level as Lee Kuan Yew?
The best to low expectations Nigerians who can't see beyond the extreme poverty and uneducated almajiris/area boys around them

Angelfrost:
The average Nigerians are so pathetic, stupid, and divided that they don't realize how much power they possess in a democracy.

That's why the politicians and leaders love religion and ethnicity so much! They know with these two things, they will always get away with murder!

That's why elected leaders like Buhari, El-Rufai, Uzodinma, etc, can afford to do what they please at the expense of their bosses (the masses) because the electors are too lost in their infighting to put them on their toes!

Well said, boss.
However, Europeans and even Americans are no different, except that a few among them who have a broad worldview work tirelessly to enlighten others to realise their power as the employers of the few in government at different levels in various capacities.
So it is up to us to work hard to enlighten everyone around us (and beyond) on the implicit social contract between the people who employ those in government and the political office holders who are there at the grace of the people.

MartinsD12:
It's a bad situation we are in , only a mean revolution can change things if not gets worse naira will soon hit 1000 to 1 dollar what an economic comatose

Are you ready to lead the revolution?
If you are not ready to lead, why suggest something that you are not ready to work for

inoki247:
Mak dem sell the electricity company to competent people jarey maybe dey shuld goan look for buyer in Benin republic or Ghana...

Fashola reach dere he was clueless...

Fashola was always clueless, just that he is a smooth talking rogue who wowed poorly educated people forming intelligent with empty rhetoric that did not translate to significant progress in key governance issues- education, feeder roads, clean environment, water, low cost houses, government jobs etc.
Bullshit can get you to the top only to be exposed for discerning population.

pendy79:
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.

Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.

The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.

While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.

He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.

The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.

Commissioning the project, Fashola said he felt fulfilled with the conduct of youths that delivered the project, despite the difficulties in getting to the finishing point.

He said it also showed that the money to improve the Nigerian economy is here, “since we don’t need the World Bank to come and do this for us.”

Also, General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board, Damilola Ogunbiyi, said the state had shown that reliable and sustainable power projects are possible through the youths.

Ogunbiyi said though it had been a successful story, the state was just scratching the surface in its “aggressive development plan” in the area of power.

Promoter of the project, Faruk Agoro noted that the new IPP was an innovative idea of world-class natural gas-fired power generating facility, sold to the government by youths and it was bought into, to support government institutions, especially in the area of water supply and security.

The Lekki IPP is 8.5 megawatts, with the capacity for 30 megawatts.

This brings the Lagos IPPS to a total of 47 megawatts of electricity in total, powering several public institutions around the state.

The generated megawatts is however still a far cry from the over 10, 000 megawatts power deficit in the state.

On his part, the State Commissioner in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Taofeek Tijani, said the new addition was about continuity in public infrastructure programme of the state government

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/03/can-provide-stable-power-eight-months-fashola-boasts/

SarkinYarki:
Buhari needs to head straight to jail when he finishes his tenure

With Thiefnuibu as his cell mate for packaging the olodo as messiah

PresidObi:
We need a good manager of resources to manage our country and the power sector, we need a good economist who will genuinely invest in the power sector with honesty and transparency.

The national grid will never collapse again if Peter Obi is the president.

Vote Peter Obi for president.

Do you have a good manager of resources as your LGA Councilor, Chairman, state legislator, governor, senator and representative?
If you don't, what magic do you want one person as president to do over 200 million people?
Na which kind wisdom be that

Fulmigati:
Failed nation on the brinks of total disintegration. Good Riddance.

There is no failed nation.
We are a failed bunch of 200 million people, forever blaming others without accepting our own part of the rot, so we don't have to do anything personally about it.
Foolishness parading as wisdom

PoliteActivist:
But there is no "voice of the people". Or you mean voice of majority, but many times the majority proves wrong.
But anyway here's the statement we are debating verbatim:
In this life someone go sha senior you
A vP there's gonna be a president

Singular, not a group of people

No time for your hair splitting arguments.
Point is made clearly for those interested to work on making their voice heard as the majority dominating the group discussion and setting the agenda for action.
No time for distracting trolls.

MartinsD12:
This is a house built in 1893 served many US vice presidents , if it's Nigeria they would have demolished the house and built another one with 20 billion naira and be using 5 billion naira to renovate it for each vice president Nigeria is doomed of corruption and the effect is no development after over 100 years of her Creation it's a shame , look at US and it's prudent management of public funds, see how such prudence has reflected in the development and advancement of a sophisticated america, I don't want to be a Nigerian anymore if you want to continue with this same corrupt old politicians still ruling this country am out , it's either Peter obi is allow to fix the country or we divide ourselves and go separate ways.

How else will people remain forever poor if they don't spend like prodigal sons- demolishing and building new, expensive but hollow replacements instead of cheaper maintenance & upgrades forever?
But who are they, if not our own personal persons at the local, state and federal governments, either in the legislative or executive arm, as well as in religious bodies, academic institutions, private companies etc?
In short, is that not how we all are

PoliteActivist:
No need to invoke US to prove they are both EXTREMELY CORRUPT. There is more than enough proof right here. See below.
MPO, on the other hand, is VERY HONEST - never mind all the smokescreen by agenda people. Much of it is by people who vehemently hate him till date because he woudn't let them loot Anambra's money. It is hard to believe the man is a Nigerian. He's simply uninterested in money or status. Nigeria will be very lucky indeed if he wins.

If Peter Obi is not a crook like the rest, why was he hiding money in Pandora papers while whining us that he has one watch, one pair of shoes, no house, no car bla bla bla poverty pretense?
To scam who

KingOfAmebo:
Breaking the Law: Number 1

In Nigeria, a person is statutorily obligated to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, except if it is farming, upon becoming a public officer, Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act stipulates.

However, our investigation, based on records obtained from the UK Companies House shows that Mr Obi continued to be a director of Next International (UK) Limited for 14 months after becoming the governor of Anambra State, thereby breaking Nigeria’s law. The politician resigned from the company on May 16, 2008, 14 months after he assumed duties as Anambra governor. He took office on March 17, 2006.

Mr Obi did not dispute the records PREMIUM TIMES cited but he claimed he “resigned immediately” by handing his wife his resignation letter. He suggested that his company might have failed to effect the changes on time or the UK Companies House did not immediately document his exit. But the UK companies registry said Mr Obi indeed resigned on May 16, 2008, and that it received his notice of resignation for electronic filing on June 16, 2008.

Breaking the law: Number 2

Nigerian public officers are required to declare “immediately after taking office and thereafter all” their properties, assets, and liabilities and those of his (or her) unmarried children under the age of eighteen years,” Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution stipulates (Section 11, Part of the Fifth Schedule).

PREMIUM TIMES investigation also found that Mr Obi breached this constitutional provision on assets declaration. We can authoritatively report that Mr Obi did not declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau the companies he tucked away in offshore secrecy havens.

Mr Obi caused to be created for him a structure of secrecy that had previously, until the Pandora Papers investigation, meant he could continue to hold foreign assets in a way that breaches Nigeria’s law without the knowledge of authorities in the country. In an extra layer of secrecy, Mr Obi used paid nominees as directors, while he remains the ultimate beneficial owner, making it nearly impossible to discover his interests in those companies but we obtained rare incorporation documents proving his link.

Otherwise, Mr Obi could have forever hoped to continue to hold the assets, that he did not declare when he had a statutory obligation to do so as a governor, without any authority or the public calling him to account.

In his response, Mr Obi ridiculously suggested that those offshore companies and assets are jointly owned with his family members and that he was not under obligation to declare companies jointly owned. “I don’t declare what is owned with others,” Mr Obi told PREMIUM TIMES. “If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”

This is contrary to the position of the Constitution, which specifies the declaration of all assets, whether jointly or partly owned, PREMIUM TIMES’ reporters told Mr Obi. He said he was not aware of that provision of the law.

Nevertheless, leaked records show Mr Obi is the sole ultimate beneficial owner of the offshore companies. So he did not even jointly own it with anyone.

In that case, Mr Obi has violated Nigeria’s Code of Conduct law and, if authorities decide to act appropriately, he could be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, a special court that tries public officers for any contravention of the Code of Conduct for Nigerian public officers as spelt out in the Fifth Schedule of the Nigerian constitution.

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) were established to enforce “a high standard of morality in the conduct of government business, and to ensure that the actions and behaviour of public officers conform to the highest standards of public morality and accountability.”

Breaking the law: Number 3

The former governor could be charged with failing to declare his offshore holdings and their associated assets and operating foreign accounts while being a public officer.

The Nigerian constitution and the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act forbid a public officer from maintaining or operating a bank account outside Nigeria. However, as a governor, Mr. Obi continued to operate and maintain foreign accounts, including with Lloyds TSB.


Mr. Obi told PREMIUM TIMES that he received the advice to create an offshore structure from Lloyds TSB, which then introduced him to intermediaries who helped him to set up com where he continued to operate a foreign account as a governor.

The offences violate sections of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/487997-pandora-papers-inside-peter-obis-secret-businesses-and-how-he-broke-the-law.html

PoliteActivist:
Nope, the people is not a person.
A somewhat acceptable answer is God

Vox Pouli, Vox Dei- the voice of the people is the voice of God.
Aptly demonstrated in the Jewish people's insistence on having a King instead of Judges rule over them, and the Lord God of Israel obliged them.
So who is a bloody politician to go against the will of the people who allow him to be in power?
Who is the empty headed politician who would do that? Do you know

Reflect7:
Does he eat this?

If not, he's suffering & smiling.

Consolation of a wailer whose fellow Nigerians are ready to die in the Sahara desert, Mediterranean Sea and Libya just to escape this hell hole for Europe and America? Aitete mu ole, ole fe mu oloko. Original sufferhead dey call im senior sufferhead. Na which kind juju be dat

decatalyst:
Show us oshinbade's own please.

Because we can compete with the US on the residence of VPs but not on free quality primary, secondary and vocational schools with enough teachers, librarians, school administrators, laboratory technicians, janitors etc?
What sense is there in such competition by people who have all made their country the world capital of extreme poverty with the highest number of children out of school?
What is the point please

TheGoodJoe:
Bla bla blabbing

Why did Obasanjo and the presidents he installed/endorsed not make our country into UAE/Dubai since 1976, given the independence of UAE in 1971?
Do you have a reasonable answer

Zikojukwu:
Baba has said that Obidiently.

He is a wailing old man who has not forgiven Atiku for making him beg for his second term, just as Fashola begged ThiefNuibu for his in 2011.

BeeBeeOoh:
* Distributes 85 tricycles to mark 85th birthday

https://leadership.ng/dont-abandon-nigeria-to-those-messing-it-up-obasanjo-tells-youths/

After he thoroughly messed up our country for his own 11 years, made Shagari and Yar’Adua president as well as supported Jonathan and Buhari to be president?
Who is Obasanjo trying to fool with his useless 85 tricycles in a country that is world capital of extreme poverty after six decades of independence? Is that how Dubai/UAE became attractive in five decades after independence from Britain in 1971

omoredia:
We are going to spoil it for them. It's Labour Party from top to bottom! As long as it gets counted no vote is a waste. Get ur pvc and stop praying to God for a calamity that is in ur hands to prevent.

Has everyone in your family received their own PVCs? What of your friends?
Are they spread out in the 36 states for Obi to get the 25% in 24 states required to be president, in addition to getting 50% plus 1 votes

Islandlady:
Finally, she gets Justice and will rest in peace forever!

We omoluabis value human life, so we don't joke or take it likely when an omoluabi is killed or attacked till Justice is served!

Omoluabi that our looters have bastardised with no water, no free education for all children, no healthcare facilities, no government jobs etc?
Omoluabi died in 1983 when Bubu overthrew the UPN governors. Dead and gone.

triple996:
Justice is served

And ThiefNuibu is shamed for asking- where are the cows when northerners were accused of killing her

egunna:
that the southern Kaduna issue is an agelong issue dat is not sponsored or backed by state power. its a social issue just like the plateau crisis dat has refused to end. stop adding religion to it so dat u don't see an enemy in every Muslim around u.an average Fulani man is not about ur religion. i am from a place where we 9.99 per ent Muslims, yet,d fulanis sacked us under good luck jonathan.it wasn't under buhari dat state of emergency was declared in plateau.so know dat some of this problems did not begin today and will continue except we work together and frown at evil at any point in time. elrufai will not be so stupid to sponsor unrest in his domain, if u think he does den u are not as thoughtful as u think. so yes, call a spade a spade, only den we can collectively find solutions to our problem.

How much of this is a replica of what the immigrant Fulanis did to the ancient 7 Hausa kingdoms

egunna:
you guys make it sound as if he brought d killings and all that.look,d world is increasingly becoming a dangerous place.dont deceive urself,every governor in Kaduna meets dis problem and leaves it.elrufai and buhari will all leave,let's see if you will shoot every Fulani man at sight.una no go call spade a spade,dats y d issues never goes.

So what precisely is the spade that you want to call in this matter? Thanks

egunna:
pls,did d killings in southern Kaduna start with elrufais assumption of office?I just want to understand something

Should it continue under his change administration? Was that what he promised while begging (campaigning for) people to employ him to the job of governor?
Have the killing decreased, remained the same or increased since he became governor in 2015

Golan007:
This is the man people are calling sick.

You want him to show his sickness every time

muykem:
Jagaban of Nigeria. You build political bridges all over the country, today you are reaping your Labour. Igbo believe that Yoruba people are not smart hence they allow Tiunbu as their leader for this long. They later thought that party will leave a man that delivered region to the party for aspirants that can't deliver a state. Your power in politics is directly proportion to how many people that willingly follow you for a long time.

When did you change looting the people's commonwealth into a politician reaping the fruit of his labour?
Is that how it was when Lagosians and Nigerians were not praying & fasting for visas to japa from Bubu's Fulani Republic of Naijeriya, FRN?
Maybe you know what the Jagbajantis Ogbeni Ojuyobo did with Lagosians trillions for 23 years

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

WonderManly:
This is why News just tired me. You go know which is fake or not.

Hell Ruffy's support for Fulani terrorists is however not fake, relying on his sacred cow status in this Fulani Republic of Naijeriya, FRN to get away with what Dr Obadiah Mailafia was invited by DSS for.

simonlee:
I came across this tweet which was screenshot years ago and I couldn't help but pity my people in southern kaduna. Please nairalanders, what have we done to these people?!

okrote4real:
https://www.facebook.com/100000270153679/posts/5498045970214354/

Has he debunked his payment of terrorists to stop killing Nigerians so they have more courage to commit atrocities

shariff84:
We’ve paid some Fulani to stop killings in Southern Kaduna – El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has said his government has traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the destruction of their communities saying that the renewed violence is carried out by bandits.


El-Rufai made this known while fielding questions from some select Journalists in his office in Kaduna.

He said: “For southern Kaduna, we didn’t understand what was going on and we decided to set up a committee under Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) to find out what was going on there. What was established was that the root of the problem has a history starting from the 2011 post election violence.

“Fulani herdsmen from across Africa bring their cattle down towards Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria. The moment the rains starts around March, April, they start moving them up to go back to their various communities and countries.


“Unfortunately, it was when they were moving up with their cattle across Southern Kaduna that the elections of 2011 took place and the crisis trapped some of them.

“Some of them were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal. Fulanis are in 14 African countries and they traverse this country with the cattle.

“So many of these people were killed, cattle lost and they organised themselves and came back to revenge.


“So a lot of what was happening in Southern Kaduna was actually from outside Nigeria. We got a hint that the late Governor Patrick Yakowa got this information and he sent someone to go round some of these Fulani communities, but of course after he died, the whole thing stopped. That is what we inherited. But the Agwai committee established that.

“We took certain steps. We got a group of people that were going round trying to trace some of these people in Cameroon, Niger republic and so on to tell them that there is a new governor who is Fulani like them and has no problem paying compensations for lives lost and he is begging them to stop killing.


“In most of the communities, once that appeal was made to them, they said they have forgiven. There are one or two that asked for monetary compensation. They said they have forgiven the death of human beings, but want compensation for cattle. We said no problem, and we paid some. As recently as two weeks ago, the team went to Niger republic to attend one Fulani gathering that they hold every year with a message from me.

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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/weve-paid-fulani-stop-killings-southern-kaduna-el-rufai/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

olaboy33:
You lots never get tired chasing shadows even after your hopes keep getting dashed?

You still don't get it, do you?

Asiwaju is not your regular politician!

He is not your regular politician indeed as he made all the rogues parading themselves as politicians, starting with the Abacha a-looter comrade in Aso Rock. Are you not a brilliant genius

mymadam:
Father and child reunion

More like mafia don and his pawn reunion to continue looting Lagosians and Nigerians in bullion vans.
Did Osunabnde not facilitate all the legalised robbery of Lagosians by Thiefnuibu, starting with the Alpha Beta tax scheme

FreeGlobe:
In Lagos, Alpha Beta, as consultants, gets 10 percent of whatever Lagos State generates monthly. If this statement confuses you, you are not alone. There are just a few things you need to keep in mind though: Lagos State generates roughly 31 billion Naira a month. Ten percent of that is going to a consultancy firm owned by the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. 75% of the revenue generated by Lagos State comes from taxes.

If you need to read the paragraph again, you are not alone. However, the truth of the matter is that Alpha Beta Company has been the tax consultant to the Lagos State government since 1999, when the former governor Tinubu began his tenure.

That year, Alpha Beta Company had definitely succeeded by delivering a dramatic rise in monthly state revenue from about 600 million Naira to 7.7 billion Naira. A laudable achievement indeed, but it would have been less so if the citizens of Lagos State knew what they had traded it in for. Alpha Beta Company had charged the state of Lagos a whopping one billion Naira a month for their services.

Now, just to reiterate, Tinubu owns Alpha Beta Company. Tinubu was also at the time, the Governor of Lagos State. Alpha Beta Company became the tax consultant for Lagos State in 1999, and they charged roughly 13% of the entire state revenue.

Today, Alpha Beta Company is still the tax consultant for the state. They now charge roughly 10% of the entire state revenue and Tinubu still owns it. The only thing that has changed is that Tinubu is no longer the Governor of Lagos State, or so it says on paper. With utmost respect to the office of State Governor, Tinubu is still very much in control of the state’s affairs, or at the very least, its revenue.

Despite all feelings of being scandalized here, one must look at the big picture. Governor Fashola is still working for Bola Tinubu. If he was not, things might have changed. New relationships would have been forged with the State Government and interest groups. However, the standings beg the question: what has really changed since then?

Undisclosed sources claim that Tinubu’s role in installing Fashola as Governor of the State is the biggest hindrance for the present regime. An agreement between Fashola and Tinubu over the duration of the tenure of governorship, as well as the selection of certain cabinet members paints a vivid picture on the sort of bind Fashola is in. At the moment however, one wonders whether or not he finds it at convenient as he used to, or if he ever did.

What is clear, however, is that there appears to be a lot of money changing hands, and the masses are still bewildered over the fate of roughly 31 billion Naira in revenue per month. There are a number of allegations regarding Fashola’s spending penchants. Here are just a few of them that beg to be disproved:

1. That in 2009, Fashola gave N250 million to the Rotimi Akeredolu-led executive of the Nigeria Bar Association (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 Babatunde Raji Fashola Government within six months, January to June 2009, spent N420 million on the hiring of private security – to guard who? – despite his heavy investment in the Police Force through the State Security Trust Fund.

3. Babatunde Raji Fashola 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. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded a part of Western Avenue (Funsho Williams Road), about two kilometres road for N7.7 billion, just between Abalti Barracks and Costain. And without the construction of any bridge, the project was carried out by Julius Berger. This project must certainly be investigated.

5. Between January and June 2009, the Babatunde Raji Fashola 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. The Government always got fuel cheaper, but Babatunde Raji Fashola claimed to have bought it at N85 per litre.

6. Between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Chief of Staff and Personal Assistants expended N290 million in sending text messages and phone calls on their lines.

7. It is also very sad to know that the Babatunde Raji Fashola 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 N1.5 billion of un-appropriated funds, without approval, was claimed to have been spent on the 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 Senior Special Assistant, SSA (Media) to Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N183 million in six months on press coverage and 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, Babatunde Raji Fashola paid the wife of a controversial pastor over N600 million in two years for Christmas decorations for about six streets in Lagos.

12. In six months, between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola spent monies on several faceless organisations, subventions, grants and donations such that they quickly pocketed N2 billion.

Most of these allegations were compiled by the True Face of Lagos, the same group that petitioned against Fashola to the House of Assembly and the EFCC. The Lagos State Government is under the proverbial microscope and the masses are watching wit rapt attention.
http://www.lestweforgetnaija.com/index.php/articles/item/120-tinubu-fashola-alpha-beta-and-the-taxation-rape-of-lagos

LeoDeKing:
The Asiwaju of Nigeria

Is that based on how he misled Lagos into glorified ghetto status despite trillions in IGR growth, federal allocation with oil at $140, huge loans etc? For 23 plus years. Or what is your wailing based on

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.


https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

oshozondii:
The Lagos State Government has borrowed over N126 billion domestically in the last quarter of 2021, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said.

According to a report released by the DMO, Lagos, whose domestic debt stood at N532.12 billion as of September 30, 2021, is now owing N658.95 billion as at the end of December, 2021.

This represents an increase of N126.83 billion in the last three months of the year 2021, according to the DMO.

DAILY POST observed that Lagos is the State with the highest domestic debt figure as of the time under review.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/03/21/domestic-debt-lagos-borrows-over-n126bn-in-three-months-dmo-releases-other-states-figures/

Joezinho:
When it involves the infidels, the police are always quick to arrive on the scene to whisk them away from the hands of angry mobs..

We are in the Fulani Republic of Naijeriya, FRN that Bubu changeD to his own personal BuharisTan since 2015.
Know this and know peace.

khalleb:
Popular Nigerian politician and chieftain of opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Femi Fani Kayodi has on his twitter account, shared a video of former Nigeria President, Olusegun Obasanjo during in tenure ordering the force to shout at Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC).


FFK in the post questioned why President Muhammadu Buhari can't take much a decision towards banditry in the country. He added that although he was against the move by the former President's decision, OBJ still went ahead with it.

https://news-af.feednews.com/news/detail/f870fd4afb63aaeb9b199f4794da3db7?client=news

sirequity:
THE Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari and justified why the Nigerian police arrested only suspects of Yoruba extraction over the recent bloody clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Individuals and groups, including the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere and the Oodua Peoples Congress, had been attacking the police for arresting and parading 20 Yoruba suspects without apprehending a single Hausa/Fulani over the violence.

But while addressing State House reporters today after meeting behind closed-doors with President Buhari, the IGP noted that crime has neither tribe nor identity.

According to the police chief, the police usually apply the law once any criminal is found wanting, irrespective of his/her tribe and identity.

He said: “You know we are police officers. Crime has no tribe. If you are a criminal, you are a criminal. Crime has no face; we don’t look at crime in the identity of where you are coming from. As far as you are a criminal and the police find you wanting, we apply the law.

“If you look at that Ife crisis, if you see how it started, it was just a disagreement between two people selling food along the road. So, you’ve to look at the dynamics of the country itself. Obviously, when you’ve such a situation, we’ve to react to it. We had to move in to ensure we provide some security to the people.”

http://www.socialtimesng.net/2017/03/ife-crisis-why-we-arrested-only-yoruba-suspects-igp/

Globad:
But the same northern governors supported Jonathan against Buhari in 2011.

Right?

Did they?
Or it was the united south, through the last minute deal with Tinubu by Jonathan, that forced their hands?
How many innocent southerners were killed in the north as a result of the surprise defeat of Buhari in 2011

igbsam:
KADUNA – Six weeks after their arrest and detention over alleged involvement in the violence that engulfed parts of Kaduna following the release of the last presidential election results, the Congress for progressive Change, CPC, in Kaduna state, yesterday, said it has so far secured the bail of over 600 suspects.

The CPC said it is still working to secure bail for more, saying it was all on compassionate grounds and in the spirit of oneness, since not all who breathed freedom were CPC members.

The CPC State Party Chairman, Alhaji Ahmadu Yaro disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kaduna .

In spite of the high number of CPC supporters arrested during the crisis, Yaro , denied the allegations that members of his party were responsible for the post election violence, putting the blame on supposed aggrieved PDP members who lost at the party’s primaries.


“It was PDP members who were fighting each other as a result of the fall-out of the primaries. It was a crisis within the PDP that caused the vilence, many of their members were not happy, that was why they started the crisis it was not CPC”, he said.

“The violence was erroneously linked with CPC. The police arrested people all over the state in connection to the violence not because they had any connection to CPC.

“Most of those arrested shortly after the post election violence were mostly CPC members but their arrest was done in error while the allegation against them is false and baseless.”

“The violence did not start from the CPC, it started as a result of people’s anger with the leadership of the country. The people were angry because of government’s failure to give them what they want. So they decided to protest to show the government that they are doing badly.”

“They want to blackmail CPC that was why they said it was CPC that started the violent protest, they saw that CPC was about taking over the government and they don’t want the CPC to win. For instance, there has never been an election in Nigeria where Army or Police attacked people like the recent elections. So that’s why they moved the military against the party because they don’t want CPC to win,” he alleged.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/05/post-election-violence-cpc-effects-bail-of-600-suspects-in-kaduna/