₦airaland Forum

jumobi1:
She probably did.
My mom has cooked for lots of people. It doesn't mean you are a subordinate. It means you were close enough to enter their home, their kitchen and be trusted with their food.

Also huhuonline.com gathered that Fashola has been going tough and taking very decisive measures on some certain state duties; one of his guinea pigs in this new step of stamping his position of authority in the state is Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, who Fashola eased out of his official residence. It was discovered that Aregbesola has been residing in that official apartment since his days as Commissioner for Works under Senator Bola Tinubu, he later contested election in Osun State as Governor but lost out, yet he refused to evacuate that official residence 3 years after he left office as Commissioner, until Fashola showed him the way out.

ziddy:
Give us proof. Let Diamond Bank come out publicly & tell us they ponied up the cash for this white elephant. Metro rail is NOT a priority project, how many areas of Lagos will benefit from it? Badagry Express has been hijacked by FG, plus why didn't Fashola do the basic research on what rights LASG have to that highway before sinking in money? It's simple, he's rushing into projects that give him the opportunity to steal the most cash, himself & his godfather, Tinubu.

naijatoday:
I thought the contract for the Lekki toll was awarded by the Tinubu administration? (this is just a question)

ziddy:
People are ecstatic about Fashola's 'reforms' because he came and started enforcing basic municipal laws, we're so used to living like animals. Tinubu is the real animal for leaving Lagos in such a horrible condition for eight solid years - all the streets littered with trash, gangs of area boys roaming everywhere & extorting citizens, armed robbers laying siege on entire neighbourhoods for hours. O.K Fashola has more or less put an end to all this stuff but let's see the real development. 4th Mainland bridge will open up Ikorodu, up to Epe and ease the pressure on 3rd mainland, it has remained a pipedream for years, instead he preferred to buy Yatch Hotel and Eko Atlantic City at the cost of billions of dollars.

Fashola isn't really doing anything in Lagos beyond the most basic day to day governance. If you like continue shouting babapupa, wonder how much he actually pays you.

blacksta:
The  multiple tax rate of Lagos is just too excessive and unfair "  Please dont give me that move back to the village crap   it is so pathetic"

Beaf:
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Just when you think Jankara market headhunters have done the nation a favour and obtained this dodo brained wonkers head. . . It pops up again!

asha 80:
babapupa come and explain what you wrote here.

Kay 17:
justice impeded by technicality! a struggle between forms and substance. justice will still prevail!the issue here is one of accountability. BRF is not immune from prosecution for corruption, if found guilty, then h besides, he should be punished. besides the anti-BRF group have substantive evidence.

He faulted the action of the House for acting on bare allegations published in the advertorial by a group, which he described as faceless instead of a petition addressed directly to the assembly.
The judge said though the court was not teaching the lawmakers how to do their jobs, it was only raising questions that the members could take into consideration in similar situations in future.

Justice Abiru lambasted the lawmakers, saying their actions in setting up the committee to investigate the allegations amounted to mere wasting of the tax-payers’ money and the time meant to be used for making laws for the good people of Lagos.
He said the setting up of the six-man panel to investigate the allegations against Fashola was a fundamental violation of the principles of natural justice and described the assembly’s move as unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, malicious and of no effect whatsoever.

Justice Abiru said: “The whole brouhaha leading up to this case was predicated on an advertorial published in the Punch Newspaper of January 28, 2010 by an unidentified and unidentifiable group called ‘The True Face of Lagos’ wherein several allegations of financial impropriety were levelled against the Executive and Legislative arms of the Lagos State government; the advertorial was Exhibit RA 1.

“The group that made the publication was faceless without any known address or location other than email address and no documents were published in the advertorial to support any of the allegations. They were bare allegations and above all the allegations were not contained in a petition addressed directly to the House of Assembly but published advertorial.
“The group, ‘The True Face of Lagos’, had not hitherto been known for or associated with the struggle for good governance and probity in government expenditure in Nigeria.

Yet, the House decided to set up a committee, expending tax payers’ money and the time meant to be used for making laws for the good of the people of Lagos State to investigate the allegations without stating any cogent reason in the House proceeding for that day, why it deemed the allegations important enough to direct that they be investigated.

“Does this mean that if tomorrow another advertorial comes out from another faceless group accusing members of the House of collecting bribes from an agency of government, for example, and shirking in their constitutional responsibilities, another committee will be set up to investigate same? What if another advertorial comes out the next day and another a week thereafter? What then happen to the business of law-making? And it is this that has caused so much unpleasant ripples within the polity. Something definitely is not right

forpeace:
we are presented with hard facts as to how fashola is turning the entire state to his personal enterprise and you are here talking mandate group? ?who cares what that means

truly:
@babapupa
So state policy will be dictated by rumours of fetish activities?
Will Governor Fashola tar my street if vanguard tell him that we have been killing rams to aid his 2nd term?

While the exercise brought wailing and lamentation to some people, some residents in the area sighed with relief. Many of them told Vanguard Metro that the demolition would at least put to an end the frequent ritual sacrifices carried out in the market.

“Some of the traders have been performing a lot of sacrifice in this market. They said the purpose  was so that Fashola would forget about the demolition. According to them, the Governor would be so engaged with other state matters that he will forget about this place. They have killed a lot of rams and goats but all proved abortive,” they said.

According to them, the market had more or less become a hide out for some hoodlums who used the place for their nefarious activities. “I have lived here for a period of 17 years. Initially the place was peaceful until recently when residents could not sleep with their eyes closed. The place became a breeding ground for hoodlums who defecate and liter the environment with refuse. Many of them are street urchins who loot and rob people any time they have the advantage to do so. Many of them who passed the night in our compound claimed they had paid a lot of money to their local government chairman not knowing the money did not get to Fashola,” said Mrs. Oluwakemi Peters.

naijamini:
@babapupa
The behavior of the two were indeed very similar, if Fayose indeed flew without permission or within unallowed perimeter. How is Oni supposed to know who was in the helicopter (because they had Fayose's flyer ?). Suppose the helicopter carried gun men who proceeded to land in the governor's compound and take him out. I am not defending Oni, but he was probably angry and saying more than he would ever actually do. Both of them acted like goons - I don't think Oni has the right to shoot anybody down or should even consider it unless in the face of danger. You have to see the similarity here or is your politics getting in the way. Gov. Fashola needs to stay far away from Fayose of chicken farm fame!