₦airaland Forum

goslowgoslow:
Sik dude coming with different moniker. Airport is not part of economy..... what a shame.

Justiceleague1:
Why are you limping nah..looks like hatchnoiore whatever he's called gave you better injection

You don't know how entertaining it is when we watch two agbadoes gbas gbos
Where's my popcorn 🍿
😂😂😂😂

sharone21:
This airport project isn't so necessary especially as there is train from Lagos to Ibadan for those arriving via international airport in Lagos.

Seems when one governor initiates a project, others just copy and follow without really brainstorming to bringing out the much needed projects for that state.

Our governors seem too to be anti- masses, they prefer plunging billions into 20 flyovers, airports etc instead of 'building ' industries/factories with private partnerships. Whatever Dangote is doing can be taken as a serious assignment ( industrial revolution) in States. Nothing stops state governments from selling bonds and shares of these industries which allows some Nigerians to get employments while others can be shareholders/ external bond& commercial paper investors.

But, using their brains is a problem.

saintkel:
Looks more like a state owned project or is it a FG?

saintkel:
Looks more like a state owned project þ is it a FG?

PDPdestroyer:
If only the Agulu fraud had any notable project like this to his name

zoedew:
Yeah, he supports a fraud who supposedly saved State Government money in a bank in which he has interest while Waterworks workers were owed salaries and doctors were on strike. Many have not noticed that Peter Obi is not a team player! His likes are like Adolf Hitler who are power hungry for bizarre reasons !

Irony1:
This doctors on strike propaganda is already stale and it has been quashed. Even at that time Lagos Doctors too went on strike but what I'd d Fashola do under advice from Tinubu? He sacked the doctors.

zoedew:
Keep making excuses for the liar and desperate mediocre who is not a team player. Agglomeration of ideas and capabilities make for meaningful and tangible outcomes.

Irony1:
How is he a liar. You have not been able to even provide evidence to show that he is a liar. You are simply using emotions and bias to lay accusations. That is childish.

zoedew:
Go check the internet for the Anambra State Press Release on the debt denial by Peter Obi.

goslowgoslow:
Your comment full of gibberish, ignorance and childishness. Is it only the building that makes up the airport?
Do you know what it cost to install modern equipment for the control tower, radar, instrument landing systems and other navigation systems,fire department, etc? To you the total cost is the building. Look at him sounding like a quantity surveyor.
All they do is to criticize without thinking.

Babaibe:
Oyo people are not fools. You keep arguing as if saying “an airport is more than a building” automatically justifies ₦41 billion. It does not.

Yes, an airport requires much more than a terminal building. But let us look at the figures. For a modest modern airport, the major specialist facilities we discussed—control tower/ATC, CAT III ILS/DME, DVOR/DME, radar/surveillance, airfield lighting, weather system, fire and rescue, backup power, CCTV/security, communications and other aviation equipment—come to roughly ₦6.45 billion.

So the simple question is: how does what we can presently see justify ₦41 billion already spent, when the visible structure itself does not appear remotely close to ₦2 billion in value?

If you insist the ₦41 billion covers substantial runway, taxiway, apron, drainage, utilities and other completed works, then show Nigerians the BOQ, payment certificates, variations and percentage of work completed. Public money must be accounted for with figures, not insults.

And while you are explaining the airport, perhaps also explain the so-called terminal at Iwo Road. How much exactly did that structure cost? The amount has never been transparently presented to the public, and we can already see how rapidly the facility has deteriorated. At this rate, it risks becoming another neglected structure occupied by touts, hoodlums and political thugs.

If that facility was intended to generate revenue from road-transport activities, it could have been properly designed as a revenue-generating project, with the proceeds helping to maintain it rather than continually depending on taxpayers' money.

The airport must not become another expensive structure without corresponding economic value.

We are not against development. We are demanding value for money. If ₦41 billion has genuinely been spent, show us ₦41 billion worth of work. Publish the figures and let independent professionals verify them.

Babaibe:
Oyo people are not fools. You keep arguing as if saying “an airport is more than a building” automatically justifies ₦41 billion. It does not.

Yes, an airport requires much more than a terminal building. But let us look at the figures. For a modest modern airport, the major specialist facilities we discussed—control tower/ATC, CAT III ILS/DME, DVOR/DME, radar/surveillance, airfield lighting, weather system, fire and rescue, backup power, CCTV/security, communications and other aviation equipment—come to roughly ₦6.45 billion.

So the simple question is: how does what we can presently see justify ₦41 billion already spent, when the visible structure itself does not appear remotely close to ₦2 billion in value?

If you insist the ₦41 billion covers substantial runway, taxiway, apron, drainage, utilities and other completed works, then show Nigerians the BOQ, payment certificates, variations and percentage of work completed. Public money must be accounted for with figures, not insults.

And while you are explaining the airport, perhaps also explain the so-called terminal at Iwo Road. How much exactly did that structure cost? The amount has never been transparently presented to the public, and we can already see how rapidly the facility has deteriorated. At this rate, it risks becoming another neglected structure occupied by touts, hoodlums and political thugs.

If that facility was intended to generate revenue from road-transport activities, it could have been properly designed as a revenue-generating project, with the proceeds helping to maintain it rather than continually depending on taxpayers' money.

The airport must not become another expensive structure without corresponding economic value.

We are not against development. We are demanding value for money. If ₦41 billion has genuinely been spent, show us ₦41 billion worth of work. Publish the figures and let independent professionals verify them.

goslowgoslow:
I don't have time to read gibberish and epistle of Paul to the Romans. Keep arguing with your key board. Someone that thinks airport is just a building. Go to government house and fight Makinde. Have a good day.

Babaibe:
No one has your time either, so stop embarrassing yourself by ranting about what you do not know and learn to exercise some restraint. Your desperation to defend the indefensible is becoming pathetic.

Let us stop pretending. This governor has increasingly behaved less like a public servant and more like a businessman using public office as an opportunity to expand his personal interests. While pointing accusing fingers at everyone else, his administration has left behind a disturbing trail of allegedly inflated and poorly executed projects, questionable priorities, unjustifiable borrowing, controversial land acquisitions and the disposal of government assets. If this is what you call governance, then the state deserves far better.The propaganda will not erase the records. You can scream, insult critics and manufacture excuses all you want, but public funds are not anyone's inheritance. Every naira borrowed, spent, transferred or committed in the name of this state should eventually be accounted for.

So let us wait for 2027. When there is a change of government, I hope the incoming administration has the courage to open the books and subject the entire eight-year administration to a comprehensive forensic audit, especially the loans, contracts, land transactions, government assets and projects that cannot withstand serious scrutiny. If everything was genuinely done in the public interest, there should be nothing to fear. But if public office was treated as a personal business empire, then accountability should be ruthless and unavoidable.

goslowgoslow:
Gibberish! I don't read junk!

Babaibe:
Your problem..Makinde rogue