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IGBOSON1:
Was expecting to see pics of the trains on the tracks....ready to go! Until they reach that stage please don't waste peoples time with this rehashed news stories!

Gombe-Kafanchan-PH line with new coaches were flagged off only last week. Emir of Gombe, Gov Dankawbo, and other dignitaries and journalists rode on the new coaches.
It was all over the newspapers, on Channels, AIT and other electronic media. If you missed the news, or you are not in Nigeria, I can't help you much.

Use your Google to catch up. This link might help: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/national-news/196282-minister-kicks-off-gombe-kafanchan-p-harcourt-train-service.

If you have Thomas mindset, I also cannot help you. Because even if you touch the coaches, take a ride in them, you will still not believe. You might need to visit one of those ozigbo-ozigbo prophets for help.

[size=14pt]*** SEE PICTURES OF WORK ON THE KADUNA-ABUJA STANDARD GUAGE RAILWAY LINE BELOW ***[/size]

Chinese rail construction giant China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) on Monday officially rounded off the track laying work of Nigeria’s first standard gauge railway modernization project linking the capital city Abuja and the northwestern state of Kaduna.

With Nigeria’s Minister of Transport Idris Umar tightening the last screw of the rail track at a well-attended ceremony, the first standard rail road project of the Chinese firm in Nigeria and the entire West Africa is formally complete for public use, CRCC said.

Constructed in three years, the rail road project gulped nearly 850 million U.S dollars and lasts 186.5 km with nine stations and a design speed of 150 km per hour.

Umar, while expressing satisfaction on the project on behalf the Nigerian government and people of Africa’s most populous country, described the project as a significant milestone in the history of Nigeria, as well as a testimony that the transformation agenda of the government was yielding fruitful results.

“I am delighted to be here to perform yet another milestone of the Nigerian railway modernization project,” Umar said, noting it will ease the mass movement of people from the Nigerian capital city to the northwestern state of Kaduna.

The Nigerian Railway Corporation traces its history to the year 1898, when the first railroad in Nigeria was constructed by the British colonial government. On October 3, 1912 the Lagos Government Railway and the Baro-Kano Railway were amalgamated, starting nationwide rail service under the name Government Department of Railways. With the passing of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act of 1955, the company gained its current name as well as the exclusive legal right to construct and operate rail service in Nigeria.

The rail network reached its maximum extent shortly after Nigerian independence, in 1964. Shortly after that, the NRC entered a long period of decline, inept management, and eventually a complete lack of maintenance of rail and locomotive assets. In 1988, NRC declared bankruptcy, and all rail traffic stopped for six months. After that, trains resumed, where the tracks were usable. By 2002, passenger service was again discontinued altogether. Starting in 2006, plans were made to restore the rail lines and add new locomotives with foreign assistance. In December 2012 regular, scheduled passenger service was restored on the Lagos to Kano line.

Rollingsbaba:
In 16 years Pdp can only rehabilitate"narrow gauge " rail lines.......... And built a few kilometers of standard gauge rail lines...........smh

trains that move on narrow gauge are no longer produced so what happens next to our rail tracks that gej is so proud to have rehabilitated,

when the world is moving to electric trains, we are still proudly importing locomotive engines which are no longer used in advanced countries

(1) There is nowhere in the post that the Minister talks about narrow guage in the rail Masterplan.

Read paragraph 2 of the post again:

Quote:

[size=14pt]"According to Umar who also said the Abuja-Kaduna rail project would commence full operation next month, the federal government equally carried out a number of feasibility studies with the plan to construct more standard gauge lines across the country."[/size]

Unquote

(2) Kaduna to Abuja standard guage rail line has been completed. Trains on this new track can do 150km/hr. Narrow guage tracks cannot travel at such high speeds.

Follow link for full story: http://www.nta.ng/2014/12/04/nigeria-completes-first-standard-gauge-railway-modernization-project/

See also attached pictures of Kaduna-Abuja rail line. Pictures do not lie.

Abuja to Lagos, and Kaduna to Abuja standard guage tracks can hardly be classified as a "few". Revise your geography lessons again. Those two distances alone easily exceed 1,500km!

Nobody ever accounts for the huge sums realized from this toll gate, and how the money is spent.

I don't fully understand the secrecy surrounding LCC financial dealings.

[size=14pt]Why all the secrecy

Why are LCC accounts never audited and published[/size]

Rollingsbaba:
........ We really need change

[size=14pt]especially now that jega has joined the change movement[/size]

sai Buhari

Oh! Really.
This is quite revealing to know that INEC Chairman is part of the Change Movement!!

The people are watching

shedraq1:
These are the names of the pastors at http://www.naij.com/381020-name-pastors-who-received-bribe-noscef-to-amaechi.html

I have checked out that blog link, and no names are mentioned. None of the news media, both print and electronic, which reported this obvious political bombast by Rotimi Amaechi quoted him as mentioning any names.

That link simply quotes NOSCEF chairman as follows:

This weekend the (NOSCEF) forum chairman, Elder Olaiya Phillips, issued a statement which read in part:

“The debasement alleged is of the gravest kind. What he alleges, if true, would be a serious indictment of our brethren and he has a duty to reveal what he knows.

“We believe that the choice Nigeria’s elections present must be about the best person for the job in every case, rather than about a candidate’s religion…”

“He must conclude what he has begun and advise which individuals parading as men of God have fallen in this manner."

Please let us try to deceive people here on NL. If you are privy to the names, list them here so we can quote you as the source. Don't put words in Rotimi Amaechi's mouth.

READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/381020-name-pastors-who-received-bribe-noscef-to-amaechi.html

CyrusXandria:
Ponder on this;

Election is February14,the winner declared a day or two after. If the declared winner dies in the space of the declaration and swearing-in.What is the constitutional provision for this?

Since he/she hasn't been sworn in;

1.)Does the vice-president-in-waiting become the new leader of the country?

2.)Would there be new election?

3.)Who remains in government as the past government have to vacate the office?

Let's ask ourselves this,anything is possible in this current election drama.

Don't really cherish these morbid predictions. But again you will ask what if the Prez dies after swearing in?
You are toying with some people's earnest expectations and hope.

I pray neither scenario will come to pass. The North will suspect foul play, and the nation will be plunged into violence.

skaksuzzy:
I no go still vote for them....
if u like modernize my papa house...
#march4buhari

You have said it all.
So this election is not about achievement and issues. It is driven by sentiments and hate, which is rather sad.

spinna:
Nigeria will make it
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvrhwDBefo

This must be the new Gombe track and coaches, which were commissioned, ironically, by Gov Dankwabo. Emir of Gombe and other dignitaries were in attendance

[size=14pt]Gov Amaechi will make a very good prophet or church founder when he leaves office.
He has uncanny ability to see visions and has "anointed" (mystic) mirror that can see into people's sitting rooms and bedrooms.

Sad thing is he doesnot seem to have enough courage to name names

All hail PROPHET ROTIMI AMAECHI[/size]

barnabasj:
Will it be ready in 6 weeks?

Why 6 weeks? Did anyone promise 6 weeks? Is that even remotely possible?

Massive infrastructure projects like this can span 2 or 3 administrations, must be executed in phases due to huge capital outlay. It is about Nigeria's development, not a particular government.

supoade:
will this be ready in 6 weeks or not?

I have not seen 6 weeks being mentioned anywhere in the video.

In any case, would you reasonably expect anyone to modernize a rail system abandoned over the years by successive governments, and add thousands of kilometers of new tracks to previously unconnected towns in 6 weeks? That video, gave a timeline of 25 years to complete current plans.

Timeline for the Abuja-Lagos link was given by the Minister as 3 years (2018).

We have to make an effort to start.

Watch Youtube video of the Rail Modernisation Masterplan below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_QsDmtU2ms

Watch the video in Youtube link below:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_QsDmtU2ms

Nigerians who often feel unsafe in Nigeria’s airspace and yet cannot endure a nine-hour road trip between Lagos and Abuja, have received cheery news from the federal government who announced the planned take-off of a three-hour high-speed train project between the two cities. Announcing this in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, disclosed the federal government’s partnership arrangements with private firms within and outside Nigeria towards the commencement of the project.

According to Umar who also said the Abuja-Kaduna rail project would commence full operation next month, the federal government equally carried out a number of feasibility studies with the plan to construct more standard gauge lines across the country.

He disclosed that the government had also successfully completed feasibility studies in seven new corridors including, the Abuja-Lagos high speed train adding that different private firms within and outside Nigeria have expressed interests in the project. The project, largely expected to be private sector-driven, according Umar, would formally take-off in 2018,

“The consultants who carried out the feasibility studies have submitted their reports. Part of the report contains the involvement of the private sector to drive the project. This is because we want to develop these lines under a public, private partnership (PPP) arrangements.

“We have already received a lot of expression of interests even ahead of advertisement for the purpose from various companies in the country and indeed, in other countries of the world.

“The idea is that, if we have this in place, the trains can move from Abuja to Lagos and from Lagos to Abuja in a maximum of three hours. We are intending to compete favourably with other transportation systems in carrying passengers from Abuja to Lagos.

“When fully actualised, a train will leave Abuja to Lagos and Lagos to Abuja, every hour. The feasibility studies had been completed. The trains will start running within the next three years, say by 2018.”

He further explained that the federal government had completed the rehabilitation of western rail lines through the administration’s revivalist strategy in the rail transport sector, insisting that Jonathan’s government is working towards the completion of the eastern line.

He said: “At the moment, the trains are moving from Port Harcourt all the way to Gombe - a distance of over 1, 000 kilometres but as soon as the security situation improves around Borno State, we will complete the line from Gombe to Maiduguri.

“While that is going on, we have constructed the standard gauge from Abuja to Kaduna. We have completed the laying of the track and very soon, President Goodluck Jonathan will inaugurate it and by March this year, we are going to commence full operation on that line.

“We have placed orders for the procurement of locomotives and coaches that we are going to deploy on the track. It is a standard gauge. The trains can move on an average speed of 150 kilometres per hour.

“That means that in a maximum of one and half hours, you can leave Kaduna for Abuja and from Abuja to Kaduna by rail. It is the first standard gauge to be completed fully in the whole of West Africa.”

I wonder how many tubers of yams were sold between Dec 2014 when the idea was mooted Chief Odigie Oyegun and Jan 2015, to raise enough money to purchase this luxurious private jet.

Nigerian yam farmers must be doing extremely well in yield and turnover.

[size=18pt]
1000 e-Rats clicking "like" since 1961 when Buhari started failing exams [/size]

TheOtherview:
More vacuous nonsense!
If you have been reading me from day one, you would know that I quote credible sources only. This is something I do for fun
Furthermore, even before Cambridge released a press statement, I provided weighty evidence which indicated that Hausa was offered as an exam subject here on these boards.

While you still have a leg to stand on, understand that you and those ill-equipped charge-and-bail lawyers - who are currently engaged in a macabre dance of utter foolishness - are on a hiding to none. Quote me on that

Now just to be clear (since you obviously don't know this) - the book I quoted from, offers one of the most definitive accounts of Nigeria's military history. Ask those who should know, ok?

See my personal copy below...

Typical of Buhari supporters. A little challenge brings out bile, insult and abuse.
This discussion is not about me or what I do for a living. It is about Buhari and his WASC certificate. Stay on the subject.

In any case, if it helps you, I am not a lawyer. I don't think you need to insult lawyers to make your point.
Lawyers are respectable people. The profession is noble. You don't have to disrespect them.

Nobody doubts that you are quoting a book. However, did the book elaborate on the level of passes, or the subjects for that matter?

It is like saying "you need to obtain a bachelors degree before you can proceed for a Masters degree". This is a true statement. But are there no specific requirements on the level of pass at the Bachelors level?

If you obtained BSc or BA with a Pass grade (a grade below 3rd Class), you cannot be admitted into a Masters degree programme anywhere in the world. Please correct me if I you believe otherwise.

All that long essay, yet you have not addressed the basic questions:

1. What pass levels should be obtained at WASC for commission into Nigerian Army? 5 ordinary passes or 5 credits (including English & Maths)?

2. What should be the source of #1? A book, or the Nigerian Army?

3. Who should be the final authority to authentic WASC result? The school or the examination body?

4. Are the requirements to be issued a WASC certificate with a "pass" appellation and those for commission into the Nigerian Army Officer Corp, one and the same?

Just like you, I want to find out the truth.
Do apply your prodigious research effort and energy to help us out.

*** THE WORLD IS WAITING AND WATCHING ***

The public have the right to be know the truth.
Nothing should be covered.

TheOtherview:
Wrong on all counts!

Whether you like it or not, back then, the basic educational requirement for admission to the Officer Corps was a West African School Certificate or equivalent. Now here is the clincher; maths was not a pre-requisite for the West African School Certificate (WASC) in the early '60s.

Source:http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/

See image attached for further details on entry qualifications. Source: The Nigerian Military: A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt 1960-67 (African Studies), Robin Luckham

Thought you are going to quote Nigerian Army official records and not some published paper from only God knows where.

Whether you like it or not, back then, the basic educational requirement for admission to the Officer Corps was a West African School Certificate or equivalent. Now here is the clincher;

False. The Nigerian Army has not altered their WASC or GCE O'Level requirement for admission into the Officer Corp. If you have the evidence post it here.

If what you are saying is true, why would his School Principal hold only young Mohamed Buhari to a higher standard of 5 credits including English and Maths? It does not sound logical.

Similarly, would the army have commissioned him if Buhari only managed 5 ordinary passes with no credits whatsoever.

maths was not a pre-requisite for the West African School Certificate (WASC) in the early '60s

Yes. Not a requirement to obtain WASC certificate. But a definite requirement to be commissioned as an Officer.

2. To pass the School Certificate, candidates had to pass examinations in a variety of groups. It was compulsory to pass English Language, but not Maths, in order to gain the Certificate.

This was a requirement to be on the WASC pass list and be issued a WASC certificate by University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES). It was not a criteria to be admitted into the Officer Corp. UCLES does not set the criteria for commission of Nigerian Army officers.

Please let us not try to pull wool over people's eyes.
A simple authenticate certificate from UCLES will lay all to rest. Buhari has been asked to request for it in the same way he requested his former school to make it available

agabusta:
You are a fraud. Why are you editing my statement and putting another one in its stead. No wonder the PDP is so afraid of Buhari. Majority of you guys are thieves and frauds and will definitely end up in jail when GMB takes over.

Cool down man.

What criteria were you referring to if I quoted you wrongly? Simply trying to clarify the "criteria" you have in mind. Such norms in writing are perfectly permissible provided they are enclosed in parenthesis.

Very difficult to pin down Buhari's supporters in a debate without provoking anger, abuse and threats of jail and invariably, death.

LASG forms LCC, then turns around to buy the same company back at an exorbitant fee.

What a strange country

Fire15:
T

Go to EFCC, abi Nairaland is an anti corruption agency.

This is public domain.

The people must know the truth about those who are calling others corrupt, while their cupboards are reeking with rotten bodies and skeletons. Period

What particularly troubles me about the poor design of that road.

It is strange and unpardonable design flaw to put roundabouts in an expressway with no traffic lights to regulate traffic flow at the roundabouts. The correct design would have been to build flyovers at all those roundabouts.

Another design flaw is lack of insufficient foot bridges. So many innocent lives have been lost by people trying to cross this highway of death.

Arysexy:
I actually jumped to the thread to congratulate apc members only to be disappointed

Bros no be only you ooooo.
I was thoroughly fooled myself

I laughed so hard my ribs are aching. That look on Fashola's face killed it. You can almost touch the pity on his face.
It makes the cartoon look so authentic.

I can now see why the Hebdo Charlie cartoons are so upsetting.

[size=18pt]Was Buhari qualified (with 5 credits including Maths and English) to join the Nigerian Army as a commissioned officer in the first place?[/size]

This is the troubling question, not all these long stories.
The electorates are not interested in the military courses he attended afterwards. Those are not in doubt.

agabusta:
[size=20pt]Those (credits in Maths and English) are part of the criteria for joining the army[/size]. Someone will write a recommendation for you. He was not employed to the army solely on the strength of this recommendation for your information.

Thank you for confirming that English and Mathematics were "part of the criteria".

But were those criteria mutually exclusive?? The obvious answer is NO!!!

The basic requirement was credit in English and Mathematics + 3 other subjects, IN ADDITION TO recommendation from a public officer, in this case his school Principal.

You are very correct to state that Buhari cannot join the army exclusively with a letter from his school Principal. He needed to obtain those 5 credits as well. There is no way his Principal would have been so specific in mentioning this requirement if it was not required.

[size=18pt]"I CONSIDER THAT MOHAMED BUHARI WILL PASS WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE WITH CREDITS IN ENGLISH, MATHS, AND THREE OTHER SUBJECTS"[/size] - Principal Provincial Secondary School, Katsina

shikaan:
That is how GMB will retire from politics..#failbuhari14

The name on the retirement invitation card is wrong.
It should read "Mohamed", not "Muhammadu".

On second thought, this is a very good template for WASC certificate.

Joor OP which business centre did you use to create this nice certificate?
Someone might be needing it soon. ** I did not mention anybody's name oooo, before busy bodies will start quoting me now**

torkaka:
. . . . . . . . . .has the issuer denied the master list [size=20pt]purported[/size] from them??

Thanks bros.
[size=18pt]"PURPORTED"[/size] is the operating word.

Take another close look at that so-called "master list". It is issued, signed and stamped by the Principal of Katsina Govt College and the "Examination Officer" of the same school.

These same two fellows also issued, signed and stamped the phoney "Statement of Result" which is currently giving Buhari and his campaign organisation nightmares.

Why should a respectable organisation like University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) deny or disclaim a document issued by someone else? They don't have to.

UCLES has thrown down the gauntlet. They have placed the onus firmly in General Buhari's court.
If he is really serious about seeing his result, Buhari should contact UCLES himself, and not hide behind Katsina College.

Will Buhari take up this challenge? The answer is blowing in the wind.

agabusta:
He has already stated in his press statement that [size=14pt]he was authorizing the school to release the results [/size][/b]based on the demands of his supporters.

[b]I can assure you the result will be released by Cambridge........

Why should Buhari authorize Katsina Govt College to release his result and certificate, when the right and authentic body to execute this directive is The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES).

And now you are assuring us "the result will be released by Cambridge". So you know the right source after all.

Did Buhari authorize you to make this lofty promise on his behalf?

Or are you the new APC publicity secretary? Have you taken over from Alhaji Lai Mohammed?

torkaka:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it is when there is a discrepancy between [size=14pt]issuer[/size] and [size=14pt]certificate [/size]that you have a case. . . . . . . . . . . .you goons had no case all along

Have you seen the CERTITICATE?
If you have seen it, please share it with us.

We have seen the [size=14pt]CANDIDATE[/size], we have seen the [size=14pt]ISSUER[/size], but we are yet to see the [size=14pt]CERTIFICATE[/size]

Here lies the problem.

Author: Femi Sowoolu (A Blogger)

"Culled document: [size=14pt]In case anyone has forgotten, this is the history of the Eti-Osa LG Toll Project[/size]

THE FACTS

1. The Lekki-Epe express road was initially constructed by the Jakande administration and completed by the Gbolahan Mudashiru and Mike Akhigbe military administrations in 1987. The entire Lekki axis was then opened up for rapid development. Between 1985 and now, the corridor has been experiencing rapid and unprecedented urban growth as hundreds of new communities, developments and estates have developed which drew large population of low and middle income Lagosians.

2. The last administration realizing the urgent need to address the fast growing problem of road congestion conceived the idea of the expansion of the existing express road into a six-lane roadway, the construction of an alternate coastal road that will run from Ahmadu Bello way in Bar Beach, along the shores of the Atlantic ocean towards Ibeju-Lekki Local Government area. The third leg was the construction of a fourth mainland bridge, from Langbasa area near Ajah across the Lagos Lagoon to Ikorodu town and detouring somewhere to join the existing third mainland bridge thereby forming a circular road around Lagos.

3. A committee was initially set up which recommended the adoption of the PPP concept to handle the project since it was thought then that because of the magnitude of the project, the state government might have to collaborate with the private sector under a Private-Public-Participation (PPP ) model to handle the project.

4. Thereafter, Tinubu’s greed took control. He floated a company-Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to handle the project as a consortium and appointed a financial advisory company ARM as the financial adviser.

5. LCC immediately asked for 1,000 hectares of prime land as the contribution of the state government to the project. This was immediately granted by Tinubu and he released the C of O within weeks for 1,000 hectares of prime at Awoyaya, Abijo, Eputu and Sapati all in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area. Part of the land is now being developed as ADIVA housing and golf course project by ARM

6. The project was later jettisoned after obtaining the hectares of land and other payments from the state government and in its place; the rehabilitation of the existing Lekki expressway was adopted by the consortium. There is no basis for a toll road and 30 year concession arrangement for a mere rehabilitation and expansion of an existing road which the government could afford on its own.

7. Indeed, the Federal Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to Governor Tinubu in 2006, offering to construct the coastal road free of charge to Lagos and its people from the Lekki Free Trade Zone to Ahmadu Bello Way in VI. He also sent a letter of commitment written by a Chinese construction firm to that effect. Governor Tinubu firmly rejected this offer and instead opted to abandon the coastal road project which the concession was initially meant for and instead signed a 30 year concession for a toll road to his company.

8. The rehabilitation work commenced in late 2006 with the expansion and rehabilitation of the Ozumba Mbadiwe end to Mobil building and the 49.4km main Lekki road rehabilitation started in 2007 shortly after Fashola became Governor

9. By this time, Fashola’s crony-Dr Tunji Olowolafe was made chairman of LCC and the entire contract was awarded to HITECH. HITECH is owned by both the Chagouris and former Gov Bola Tinubu who is the Chairman

10. LCC was given a 30 year concession (note that all their concessions are usually 30 years) with no competitive bid, no competing quote and no professional evaluation. The whole thing was packaged by Tinubu and executed by Fashola for their own selfish interest.

11. To further confirm this, Tinubu has built a multi- billion naira state of the art hotel-the Oriental Hotel along the express road. Conveniently, the toll gate is located a few meters before the hotel coming from VI so that the hotel clients wouldn’t have to pay toll. Even, special entry and exit points (including a roundabout) have been constructed for the hotel and the multi-level car park beside it (also owned by Tinubu) by the construction company using tax/ toll payers’ money. Talk about creating a personal empire. One man owning an express road and a multi-billion naira hotel (ORIENTAL HOTEL).

12. The 49.4km two-phased project is to cost an outrageous N50 billion which the innocent citizens and particularly the residents and indigenous communities of Lekki, Ajah, Epe and Ibeju areas will cough out over the next 30 years while Tinubu, Fashola, Olowolafe, the Chagouris and their other collaborators and their unborn generations will be smiling to the banks. A simple arithmetic shows that cost of construction averages N1billion per 1km. This did not include the 1,000 hectares of land and other costs already incurred by the Lagos state government. This must be the most expensive road anywhere in the world! Meanwhile, there will be 3 toll plazas in a 50km stretch!

13. Already, the rehabilitation work which started in 2006 has only achieved less than 2km in over 3 years; meanwhile, the consortium has only concentrated on building the toll plazas rather than first completing the two phases for the convenience of residents. Residents in these areas spend more than 6 hours daily on the road while the situation will get worse during the coming rains. This has disrupted the lives of the citizens and no proper alternate road was constructed by the consortium.

14. The entire Lekki axis hosts millions of indigenous people who are fishermen and farmers and have occupied their lands for centuries. They are largely poor and agrarian from villages like Ajah, Badore, Elegushi, Ajiran, Sangotedo, Abijo, Ibeju, and all communities in Eti-osa, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki Local Government areas. These indigenous people along with others living in the area are now being forced to pay toll to enter and exit their fatherland.

15. These people who have been subjected to economic misfortune occasioned by seizure of their lands by this government are now been economically drained by the imposition of toll gates within their communities. There has never been any consultations with the people neither was there any environmental impact assessment before the commencement of the project.

16. THE BIG FRAUD This is the biggest fraud ever conceived! (a) A road that was initially constructed by two previous administration and that belong to the Lagos State Government is now being jointly owned by Tinubu-the former governor and Fashola-the present governor through his crony-Dr Tunji Olowolafe under the consortium LCC

(b) LCC was appointed without conforming to the Public Procurement Act of 2007. There was no public bidding process, no competing bids from other consortium and the fact that the former Governor and the present Governor have personal interest is criminal in nature.

(c) LCC will collect toll from the taxpayers of Lagos over the next 30years. The amount to be collected was not subject to any negotiation or law by any regulatory agency. Which means it is arbitrary and could be changed without notice anytime through the duration of the 30 year lease.

(d) In addition, landowners and prospective builders of homes are being charged heavily as infrastructural charge, land use charge and personal income tax and are now required to pay road tax or toll. This is multiple taxation in its worst form.

(e) The people’s livelihoods have been disrupted for the past 3 years without compensation and there is no alternate road anywhere as it is in practice in other parts of the world where there are toll roads.

(f ) A concession that was granted for the building of a coastal road, 4th mainland bridge and expansion of Lekki road has now been turned into mere rehabilitation of an existing road for the same 30- year concession. This is fraud

(g) Fences are being built around the toll areas to box residents within the area. This has security and safety implications. If there is a major emergency like major armed robbery operations, civil crisis, major floods, fire incidents etc and residents need to be evacuated in a hurry; there will be major massive bottleneck at the toll plaza as there is no other escape route except through the lagoon or Atlantic Ocean. Remember the Oke-Afa mass drowning incident of 2002. God forbid!

(h) The owners of LCC have also received cash payments and land grants from Lagos state government in addition to the 30 year toll. These payments and land grants were initially made under the agreement that the 4th mainland bridge-Lekki road-coastal road would be built. It is therefore criminal to obtain compensation for a project only to turn around and reduce the scope.

(i ) Several prominent Baales, residents and associations have voiced their objections over the years but were arrogantly ignored by government and LCC. The Eti-Osa Heritage Group, Concerned Residents of Lekki-Ajah (COROLA) and other Indigenous groups have expressed reservations and berated LCC for what they considered inequitable for the residents.

(j ) We indeed wonder what the Lagos State House of Assembly is there for if it cannot raise its voice to protect its citizens. The House is indeed culpable as it remains ineffective when this entire charade is going on under its watch or is the House of Assembly another conquered territory of both Tinubu and Fashola?

~ #changeindeed

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Re: The Truth Behind The Lekki Express Tolls.how Tinubu Led APC Fleece Lagosians by fijiano202(m): 1:53pm On Jan 22

Nigeria is a country full of corrupt leaders...if u think lagos is worst wait till u hear abt Mr President corrupt charges, allegations and crimes....go to other states its almost the same story....

In a country like Nigeria, its All (every man) Man For Himself.....

Forget abt the change slogan....both APC and PDP are full of corrupt leaders who has nothing to offer the citizens....all they do is change party not corrupt ways or plans

Our help can only come from God"

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