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Lagos State House of Assembly has summoned Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to appear before it within one week over the 2019 budget, which has not been presented up till now.

The delay has caused disagreement between the two arms of government.

It will be recalled that Ambode had sent the 2019 budget to the House in December against the tradition of laying the budget before the House as governor.

Speaker Mudashiru Obasa told the lawmakers at plenary on Monday it was important to give the governor a fair hearing over the issue of the 2019 Budget.

Obasa stated there have been violations of the constitution and infractions on the part of the governor.

“The Attorney General, Finance Commissioner and Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning that ought to have advised the governor did not do so.

“The most important thing is that we should let the people know that a budget that was yet to be approved was being spent, which was why we could not attend to the governor on the budget on Monday 21, January.

“We must give them a fair hearing to come and explain what happened. The point has been made that there must be something before the House before you can commence expenditure.

“We want to call on the governor to come within a week to explain himself along with the other officials.

“We can start gathering signatures for impeachment. We can exercise patience and wait till another time,” he said.

The lawmakers had reacted to a report presented by the Deputy Speaker Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni as the Chairman of the Committee set up to look into the issues surrounding the 2019 budget during a parliamentary meeting of the lawmakers.

Members of the Committee included Chairman House Committee on Public Accounts (State) Hon. Moshood Oshun; Chairman, House Committee on Budget and Economic Planning, Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu; Chairman, House Committee on the Environment Hon. Dayo Saka-Fafunmi and the Chairman, House Committee on Works and Infrastructure, Hon. Abiodun Tobun.

Eshinlokun revealed that the committee met with relevant commissioners and heads of agencies.

The Deputy Speaker stated the committee met with the Commissioner For Budget and Economic Planning, Hon. Segun Banjo, who said that no money had been spent for the year.

He said that the Accountant General told the committee that warrant had been issued that they could spend up to 25 percent of the preceding budget before the approval of that of the new year.

He said they would have to make recourse to the House if they wanted to spend up to N200 million.

“We pointed out that the governor ought to lay the budget of the New Year before December 31st, but that so far the budget was yet to be laid.

“We asked them to bring out the law that allows them to spend up to 25% of the budget of the preceding year. They could not bring out such law and we said what they did was wrong.

“We discovered that people have started receiving alerts and this has a grave implication for the executive.

“It is our finding that for smooth running of government, there must be a strict adherent to the constitution and it must not be violated. “We decided to bring the report before the lawmakers for us to take action,” he said.

In his comment, Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu revealed that the Committee on Budget discovered during budget appropriation review that there were some specific expenditure in the budgets that ought to have been approved by the House over which funds were expended.

Yishawu stated that these were misnomers, and that they noticed variation in the expenditure and budget approved.

“We had issues of virement and monies being spent without approval. We had cases of items that were not budgeted for being carried out, it shows the executive rewrite the budget at will.

“The Constitution states that the State House of Assembly must approve all expenditures,” he added.

According to him, things are shutting down, things are being slowed down by the government.

He said that it was as if the executive was tired and that the people were complaining.

“It is as if nothing is happening in the state now. Breach of the constitution and gross misconduct are being committed here, and the punishment is clear.

“We should begin an impeachment process if need be if the executive does not retrace their steps,” he said.

This was corroborated by Hon. Tunde Braimoh, who said that the manner of revelation was of serious concern.

He stated that they all swore to uphold the tenets of the constitution of Nigeria.

He added that Sections 120 and 121 explained the roles of each arm of government when it comes to financial expenditure.

“If we continue like this, it means we are moving on the ebb of destruction. The issue of gross misconduct should be closely looked into and necessary sanctions applied,” he said.

This was supported by Hon. Bisi Yusuf, who pointed out that the governor is an accountant and he was an Acting Auditor General in 2001 and was confirmed in 2005.

“With his level of exposure, he cannot claim ignorance. He is being surrounded by intellectuals, so they ought to have advised him including the Deputy Governor and the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning.

“The Attorney General ought to have been removed for quoting a law that does not exist.

“All those, who are giving the governor bad advice should be removed.

“In the whole of Lagos, things have shut down. This is an offence that is not pardonable.

“I want to say this is an impeachable offence for the governor and the commissioners,” he said.

Former chairman, committee on budget of the House, Hon. Rotimi Olowo said: “Rewriting of the Budget is an impeachable offence. The Government has been shut down and our roads are in a sorry state.

“There must be continuity of projects in the budget and this is not followed.

“Borrowing without informing the house is impeachable. IPP is being owed. If the Governor is tired, he should resign.

Moshood Oshun said: “When you apply for a job, and you are given, if you are tired, you can leave. If the Governor is tired, he should go.

“The budget is a law, when we pass a budget, they rewrite their own. What they say is that they are above the law.

“If you go to Alausa today, all the MDAs are shut down. All their files are with the Governor and he did not work on them.

Hon. Richard Kasunmu said: “This is a non-compliance with the rule of law. The state is about to be totally shut down, so we should checkmate the situation.

“If the governor is tired, he should throw in the towel. We cannot keep on standstill because some people are tired.

Hon. Rasheed Makinde said: “Three years down the lane, the executive cannot tell the people of Lagos that they don’t know what they are doing.

“It is obvious that the Governor is tired, so they should all go. They even made a mistake in the letter they wrote to the House.

“Lagos State used to present its budget before others even before the Federal Government.

“They ought to work based on the budget or they come for reordering. All government agencies have been rendered useless and civil servants are sleeping in their offices.

“The State House of Assembly must approve the budget. We must pass a vote of no confidence on the Attorney General, Commissioners for Budget, Finance, the Governor and the Deputy Governor.

Hon. Yinka Ogundimu reacted: “The Governor has always been disobeying our motions. They refused to follow our motions on the environment, which is why everywhere is dirty.

“If you look at the various projects not provided for in the budget that are being done, then it is breach of the constitution.

“The people concerned should resign before we invoke the aspect of the constitution that gives us power to remove them from office. We should make it clear that there have been warnings from us.

Hon. Sola Giwa said: “This is a matter of constitutionality and it is about the law. We all swore to uphold the law.

“If you breach the law, there is a consequence and the best is for the House to begin an impeachment process.

Hon. Victor Akande said: “There is no need for virement according to the constitution. I don’t think there is any budget before the House.

“The constitution states that the budget must be laid and it is a gross misconduct. So, we should do the needful.

Hon. Fatai Mojeed said: “We received the money from Paris Fund and other funds, the executive did not take permission before they spent the money.

Hon. Jude Idimogu said: “The government is not moving forward. Our party is the APC and we are doing well.

“The government is not putting us in the light and we have the opposition that is watching us.

“No budget has been laid before the House. The key members such as Attorney General, Commissioners For Finance and Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning. The needful is impeachment.

Others who spoke are: Hon. Noheem Raheem: “I support the fact that they should resign if they are tired.

Hon. Fatai Oluwa: “This is a deliberate attempt by the Governor not to bring the budget before the House.

“He is surrounded by erudite lawyers that ought to have advised him. Public Works, LAWMA, IPP are more working. If it would be necessary to sign and send him out of office it would be okay.

Hon Oladele Adekanye said: “It is clear that there are infractions and impeachable offence committed. The defences of the commissioners are not tenable.

Hon. Sabur Olayiwola said: “There have been abuses of the constitution and disobedient to the constitution. Spending without making recourse to the assembly is an impeachable offence.

“The best thing is to show him that we are representing our people and that we are not here for fun.

“The best thing is to let them know that we mean business. The Permanent Secretary/Accountant General that is talking about 25 percent spending should be brought to book.

Hon. Akeem Shokunle, “The financial misconduct of the Governor is obvious and we should begin an impeachment process.

Hon. Mosunmola Sangodara, “The situation is an unfortunate one. Section 121 of the Constitution states the the appropriation bill should be laid before the House and this has not been done.

“It is an abuse of office and an undue influence by the Governor. We can start an impeachment process and pass a vote of no confidence on some of the members of the executive.

To Hon. Funmilayo Tejuosho: “We are the voice of the people of Lagos State and we perform oversight functions to ensure that the Government do the best for the people.

“Accountability is not being done here. Section 121 made it clear that the appropriation bill should be laid before the house.

“Section 122 states that if that has been done, you can now spend 25percent of the budget estimate for a period of six months.

“We need to forward the infractions to the Governor. The tax payers should know what their money is being spent on.

Hon. Setonji David said: “The infractions are too grave, there is a problem and we need to do what is right. The government must be held responsible for their actions.

Hon. Akeem Bello, “The Governor and his Deputy should tender their resignation letter.

Hon. Dayo Saka-Fafunmi, “I am sad over the revelations by what the Deputy Speaker reads and during out interactions with the executive.

“The business of governance is not based on sentiments, it ia based on law. Section 120 of the Constitution that talks about the public fund is very important.

“All the violations amount to gross misconduct. Section 188 subsection defines gross misconduct. We strongly believe that essential services that ought to be met are missing in the state.

“I am in line with the statement and decisions of the members that if the executive members are not ready for governance, they should resign or should be impeached.

Hon. Mojisola Miranda said: “The constitution is clear that there is punishment for any offence.

Hon. Dayo Famakinwa stated: “I want to support my colleagues that the offences are impeachable and we should activate the process immediately.

Hon. Saka Solaja said: “A budget is financial instrument that analyses and interprets the financial expenditure. Since 1999, Lagos State has always been presenting its budget as at when due, but that has not been done.

“The financial regulations and the constitution have been breached. We should start a process of impeachment immediately.

Hon. Folajinmi Mohammed said: “There is a vagrant abuse of the constitution, which is an impeachable offence.

To Hon. Lanre Ogunyemi: “It is an issue of flagrant disobedient to the constitution. A review of a previous year’s budget is a precursor to the approval of the new budget.

“A review of the 2018 budget shows poor performance. MDAs complained of inability to access their funds.

“All these infractions should be communicated to the Governor for his reaction and if he fails to do so, the House can begin a process of impeachment.

Hon. Omotayo Oduntan Deputy Whip said: “Today is a sad day. The executive just moved money from one ministry to another without recourse to the Assembly.

“When all these happen, it shows a total disregard to the budget being passed by the House. We should get across to the Governor to explain himself or else we should begin an impeachment process.

Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, (Majority Leader): “It is clear that the budget has not been presented before the House. My colleagues have addressed all the issues. We should let the public know that we do not have the budget before the House.

“Three suggestions we made, that the Commissioners, who were approved by the House and are working with the Governor should have vote of no confidence passed on them. They have failed in their responsibilities.

“The next is for the Governor to resign or we should begin an impeachment process against the Governor.

“We can communicate to him to reign or failure to do that is for us to start collecting signatures of lawmakers so that we can be seeing to have done our job.

Hon. Rotimi Abiru (Chief Whip): “I want to adopt what has been done without wasting much time. There have been some infractions on the part of the Governor and the position of the law is clear.

Hon. Wahab Jimoh (Deputy Majority Leader) said: “I saw this coming like an ocean surge. The Attorney General wrote the House to withdraw the private member bills before the House.

“I had been noticing that there would be crisis. The report I saw with the Deputy Speaker shows that the 2019 is being implemented.

Source: The Nation Newspaper

Yambee:
This man should go and sit down.

This man always throws tantrums like a baby when anybody in power ignores him. You cannot continue to be relevant forever,as you need to take a vacation from the spotlight.

I personally think Obasanjo is at the second stage of dementia,because he seems to forget those that made him a President in the 70's and then brought him out of jail in 1998 and made him the President again, when he was staring at poverty,penniless and penury in his life.

Now he stolen and he is one of the richest men in Nigeria,and thinks he can talk anyhow.

He will end up in Jail again before he starts respecting himself,since he has none. Buhari should re-open the $16 Billion electricity money he stole,and i am sure he will keep his mouth shut.

I think you are too young to lose your mind.

Let's discuss the statement not the person.
Is Obasanjo a bad man.....may be
Is Obasanjo saying the truth.... Certainly YES

Don't leave substance and chase after shadow.

Excellent

donemzy115:
did u register online or offline?are u an ex corp,servin corp or an undergraduate?

Offline. Ex corps

temmylee:
any lagosians here....av received mine
eti osa

Yea I've received too

Let them impeach the lying Governor who also doubles as a coward.

Ambode gave a press statement since October 18, 2018 that he had released 683 million naira for bursary and scholarship, up till now, none of the beneficiaries has been paid. Worse still, they collected N2000 each from all beneficiaries as payment for bronchure. No bronchure, no fund..
Ambode started well but his ending is very disappointing.

Good talk

BabaO2:
Why Crying, but Jonathan did same thing to justice Salami, heaven did not fall, he even removed another autonomous arm of government leadership the CBN governor , you guys backed him and said all manners of crude excuses. Whoever adviced Buhari on this issue has done so in the best interest of structured future Nigeria. We can't any longer tolerate rouges to be at the helm of as sensitive as supreme court of Nigeria.

Yes ...we can't tolerate rogues. But we must remind ourselves that illegal means cannot be used to correct wrong done

Yeah, person wey know person naim dey do person. An adage says if the enemies within cannot kill you, then the enemies outside cannot defeat you.

The president Buhari that we saw during The Candidates program cannot certainly interpret the recommendations of the CCT without the input of Prof Osinbajo. Based on the recent outings of the president, I doubt if he could single handedly make decisions without confiding with some members of the APC hierarchy especially as the election draws closer.

Mr President is not that skillful to independently interpret the recommendations of the CCT. It is certain that lawyers are undoing their own profession and the noble profession may not get the reputation it once had.

Prof Yemi Osinbajo and the Attorney General of the Federation definitely must have been consulted before the pronouncement of Buhari to suspend the CJN.

The law professionals should hold the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo responsible for this constitutional crises except he comes out openly to make known his role in this matter.

Ihateyoumod:
I don't need to educate u on anything..educate urself...go pick up the dictionary n check if the meaning of suspension and sack are d same

Stop saying what you don't know.

Suspension of the CJN has no place in our constitution. Hence, such suspension is null and void

Ihateyoumod:
Which due process wasnt followed. Every body uses d loopholes of d law. The law talk about removal.....he was suspended not sacked. These r two different things

You are blessed if you can educated us on the legal difference between suspension and removal. Otherwise, you are cursed for life.

I am commenting this because I hope you are someone who can unlearn, learn and relearn.

First, the constitution is the supreme law of the land. When other laws is not in confomance with the laws written in the constitution, the one in the constitution is obeyed.

Secondly, you cannot achieve legality by illegal means. Legality means following rule of law and due process only. The due process is that the CJN appears FIRST before the NJC not before the CCT. Also, the CJN cannot be suspended singlehandedly by the president or on recommendations of CCT without the input of the NJC or the Senate.

More so, I have observed that the President chooses which law to obey and which to disregards depending on what favours him. This is definitely not going to help us as a nation.

Buhari advisers are very wicked. I'm afraid, the end of Buhari would be worse than his beginning. The man has squandered all the goodwill of 2015

At this moment let all the sensible people supporting Buhari join hands together with other patriotic Nigerians to send Buhari packing.

I have seen many crazy people on Nairaland than in Nigeria as a whole. The fact that you are a supporter of Buhari does not mean you should defend every of his wrong doings.

The reasonable supporters of Buhari are already having a rethink.

CJN was guilty as accused but DUE PROCESS needs to be followed. We Nigerians are not supporting a corrupt Judge, all we are saying is that the RULE OF LAW should be obeyed. That you caught a boy who stabbed his father to death does not mean he will be killed immediately without first charging him to court.

All reasonable Muslims and Christians should rise up and defend the labour of our heroes past.

With the way things are going, whoever is an associate of Buhari will definitely have an explanation to make in the future. There is a time to speak up and a time to keep silent. If Buhari's associates such as Prof Yemi Osinbaji, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Adams Oshiomole, Bola Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi etc. failed to dissociate themselves from the tyrannical attitude of the President. It may spell doom for their political future...

Remember, Buhari is old and has no future in politics. People like Fashola, Osinbajo, Ameachi, etc may be the ones to bear the consequences in the nearest future.

I need a Canadian Visa

Why are you afraid to show us the mammoth crowd as usual.

APC is not yet born in South East

You can imagine Messi leaving Barcelona, only to return back to Real Zaragoza

Mikel left one of the best clubs in the Premiership, only to return to a club in the Championship.

That's not success! Poor decision-making caused it. He has got the money he wanted but has lost the prestige.

eyebee01:
Well I think the pay won't be much given the number of people that they want to employ. Imagine paying 5000 people over 100k....my opinion though

Everybody is not going to have same job role na.
PhD holders applied
MSc applied
BSc applied
HND applied
OND applied
SSCE applied

Do you expect all these people to earn same salary? I think the salary will be similar to Federal civil servants

Ayanfeoluxyz:
You people have started again? continue! you are going to believe when you start seeing people with their appointment letters. At last my 1000 naira was not wasted!

Exactly, I just decided to give it a trial, at least I have been spending money in other areas without much expectation. Sometimes, one does not need to rely on experience...

I pray we make it to the final selection.

Thumbs up for Sowore

Greatest Futarians and Nigerian students, here is a reason to support Sowore. He understands the potentials in our universities.

FUTA....technology for self-reliance. If I had the opportunity to do my first degree in Nigeria again.....I will choose FUTA again and again.

FUTARIANS have been consistently winning all Microsoft competition around the world.... Don't argue, please google it. I know other Nigerian universities are doing well in other areas.

I'm a proud futarian.

We are Taking It Back!

Buhari, Mr Integrithief

A professor is required to retire at 70
A military officer is required to retire at 60
Civil servant is required to retire at 60/65

But the President of Nigeria can be older than 70....
Does that make sense?

A graduate trainee is required to have a minimum of a degree certificate with 2/1
To get a good job you are required to have NYSC certificate

But to be a President, all you need is a WASC Certificate..

Is this country normal at all.

Until there is an overhaul of the laws....no significant progress can be achieved.

Let's see how it goes. Not the first person that runs to court always win

That day, I rushed out of the house in my location at Lekki. Every one came out...it was like war wanted to start or rapture kind of thing....because all neighbours could hear the sound.

From Ikeja... We heard in Lekki.
It was a sad day for Lagosians

Only people from the south always blast themselves. You will never see the northern people/elites fighting themselves dirty or insulting their leaders

Zombies killing themselves for an uninspiring leader

Obasanjo is far better and agile than Buhari in every way. In military rank, in physical strength, in age, in education, in administration, in relationship, in connection. You just name it.

Buhari is a refurbished product that the sellers want to sell as original product.

WisdomFlakes:
I am with you on this. He could have used this debate opportunity to convince undecided Nigerians on why he is a better alternative. We have heard Peter Obi, this would have been a great opportunity to hear him out also.

The debate is not an avenue to convince but to prove you're better than the opposition. Have you ever seen anyone debating all by himself?

The debate is meant to ask both parties questions on same issues and see how they will react, respond and offer solutions.

If Atiku had debated, I can tell you APC will use all his statements to nail him. As you know that the spectators always know better than the players on field.

If Buhari was present, then PDP too will have something to hang up to from Buhari's performance.

Therefore, Atiku is politically correct for not honouring the debate. Moreover, the debate lack credibility for not including Sowore and Hashim

What gives you the assurance of 2023?

Tomorrow will not come to the one who fails to maximise today

Paid protesters.

If you truly love Nigeria, then come back home to vote. You left Nigeria for greener pasture, now claiming you are patriotic.