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Freethinker87:
I didn't read this. I'm not interested in epistles.

Just point out 1 sector Tinubu fixed in Lagos as Governor for 8 years.

Lagos Boy! oya let me help you out, I have time to help one ill informed Lagosian.

He revolutionize the IGR collection of Lagos State from 600 Million monthly to 2 Billion (2007). This system today generates 7 billion monthly now and its used in other states and at the Federal Level. (Economic Sector)

On restructuring, he was the first Governor who led the Creation of 37 LCDAs out of 20 LGA after a successful Referendum in Lagos (Successful Management of 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs during his tenure) and they still stand till today. Back then Lagos was denied Federal Allocation but during his tenure Lagos State never owed staff salary to any staff at Local and State levels. Other states like Ebonyi copied the LCDA creation.

Creation of LCDAs was his idea of bringing governance closer to the people and he succeeded in that big time. This where the RESTRUCTURING agitation started from.

The total Federal allocation denied Lagos back then was released to the Raji Fashola administration by Late Yaradua when he became head of State after OBJ.

(Environmental Protection Sector) Phase One of Lagos Bar Beach Reclamation project was completed before he left office. He already planned what to do next which was Eko Atlantic City which is standing tall today. That's the Next Mega City on the Ocean (E

(Investment into Lagos) Lekki Free Trade Zone was conceived and started during his time, even Aliko Dangote confirmed that. the Port is almost completed, Dangote oil Refinery is located there.

(Security) He up graded what Operation Sweep Security Outfit, that gave birth to RRS today and the funding for the outfit outside government financing. If you don't know RRS is funded by the private sector. He introduced Neighborhood Watch which is still working today..... the State Police agitation started with this idea.

He created LATSMA for traffic management in Lagos.

One Day Governor for school kids, its still happening yearly. This is to encourage children in public schools to aspire to and see governance from close quarters.

He created LAWMA to tackle the huge refuse heaps in Lagos back then.

He opened up the Lekki corridor for housing development

The Expansion of Lekki expressway

BAT was the first governor and still the only governor to conducted (LCDA creation) Referendum and Household Survey back then. To determine how to plan using population parameters approve by World Bank and other multinational agencies.

Oya, please lecture me!

ivolt:
Maybe you are one of those who counts BRT, light rail and other project which were executed
years after Tinubu is out of power.

Not all of us are indomie generation.

Perhaps, I am not current.
I just need someone to list just 3 Tinubu's achievement while he was in government.

Don't be lazy, go online and do your research or better still go to Lagos State Secretariat and they will help you out. You can always get a dossier of individual governors achievements. I am not holding brief for any of them. Facts dont' lie

Fashola countined from where Tinubu stopped, Ambode follow join and Sanwo-olu in on it.

Freethinker87:
*Gov. Makinde banned NURTW in Oyo since 2019 and heaven did not fall.

*Who's the Baba Oloja of Lagos state? The only Oloja of Lagos market is Tinubu's daughter. You're not very smart.

*Tinubu neither conceive nor started anything in Lagos. Mention one thing he fixed in Lagos. I don't need to verify any fact. I was born and raised here. I witnessed Lagos under Tinubu firsthand.

*Everybody isn't taxed in advanced country. There's a benchmark for taxation and people earning minimum wage are exempted from taxation. Have you even been to the airport? You sound stupid bro. I've been paying taxes to LASG since I turned 16 and I still don't know how they spend my taxes.

*You're talking nonsense bro. Petty traders and cart pushers are under the poverty line, they shouldn't be burdened by taxes from Tinubu's agberos. They're trying to survive.

Get an education bro. You sound ridiculous.

More education for you .......!

Governor Makinde banned agbero's from operating and not NURTW and other transport Unions (Have you been to Oyo state to see how this ban is working, the union guys are every where?).

Lagos State has only one Iya Oloja. Be informed also that every market in the length and breath of Lagos and other parts of Nigeria have their respective Iya olojas and Baba olojas as may apply.

Are you sure you were born in Lagos? Maybe you were born after he left office or you were too young to understand Lagos before and during Tinubu's administration. I can understand that.

If you like, you can refuse to go online and search out his achievements as Governor, that's your own call. They are verifiable, nothing can be subtracted or added to it. Its already permanent, I can't change it, neither can you. (but I pray you don't fall victim of peddling facts that are contrary to what is already available online in the public domain).

On taxes, every country have their own peculiarities on taxation and revenue generation. That's the way it has worked. If you have alternatives, please be free to share with us your own strategy. Its a case of "You can't eat your cake and have it"

Lagos State can never be free for all, lest all hell will be let loose. Lagos is not free for all, can't be and will not be, even during pre-Colonial Lagos taxation was key to development.

I want to call you "Brother Get Education", please help me out, since when did "agberos become tax agents for Lagos State Government? On whoose order? or by which law? I need answers to this.....

From your comments, you don't even know how your taxes are deployed for development by government. This is unbelievable!!!. In this century and age a so called Lagosian (born and bred in Lagos), you don't even know how taxes are applied or what they are used for?

I have my doubts, you exist in a vacuum oblivious of what goes on around you.

Let me advice you, next time and before you come and make unverifiable comments, please all you need to do is carry out a simple search online and you will be surprised at the amount of facts out there.

My assignment for you, if you want to do yourself a favour is to firstly go online or visit the (LIRS) Lagos Inland Revenue Service and (FIRS) Federal Inland Revenue Service to learn what the revenues generated from taxes are used for.

Imagine!

ivolt:
Can somebody list Tinubu's achievement?
Not FG, Fashola, Ambode or Sanwo-Olu's achievement?

You don't need anybody for that. All you need is go online and search out their individual achievements as Governors, it's in the Public domain.

Freethinker87:
Fashola changed everything. he even tried to scrap agberos which caused a huge rift between Tinubu and him.

Nightlife in Lagos, as we know it today, was non-existent under Tinubu. Who born you well to venture outside after 9 PM? Armed robbery incidents was a daily occurrence on our streets with screams of "Ole oo, Ole ooo" at nearby houses every damn night.

Today, I see houses for rent without burglary proof. Under Tinubu, burglary proof doors was a necessary consideration before renting an apartment.

I can go on and on about the Lagos experience under Tinubu. He didn't do anything to solve the numerous problems in Lagos. The agbado man just enriched himself and his boys for 8 years.

The cases you refer to were all the issues that bedeviled Lagos before Tinubu came on-board as Governor in 1999.
Tinubu's "Master Stroke" came when he gathered Notable Nigerian Professionals like the Late Professor Olikoye Ransome-kuti (Late Fela's elder brother) these calibre of people were given committees based on their professional background and each came up with a plan of action for Lagos based on sectors they had expertise on.

It was based on these various committees' reports back in the days (from 1999 - 2007) that he appointed the likes of Yemi Oshibajo, Dele Alake, Wale Edun, Leke Pitan, Raji Fashola and others to implement these Blue Print.

nony43:
Thank you. At least I learnt something.

You are welcome!!!

Freethinker87:
So we've moved from "Tinubu built BRT" to "Tinubu conceived BRT."

OK!

So taxing petty roadside traders including cart pushers who are already down below the poverty line is your idea of expanding the tax net.

You just use grammar without actually knowing the meaning. Under Tinubu, cart pushers, hawkers and petty traders were captured into the tax bracket. Agbero and Iya Oloja became official Govt tax agents. That's Tinubus idea of expanding the tax net.

This is not a case of using grammar.......... !!! You make me laugh.

I hope you know nobody can chase the so called "Agberos" off the roads in Nigeria. Those guys have a union called NURTW an affiliate of NLC and years ago they obtained a SUPREME COURT judgement to let them operate on the roads (please go into history) that's why no government have been able to curtail them in any state of the federation. The Iya Olojas and Baba Olojas are not and have never been tax collection agents. It has never happened in any states in Nigeria.

Also let us get this right, Tinubu's Administration conceived and started these projects and handed over to successors who continued. Go and check the facts. The Truth can not be hidden.

In the case of taxing everybody. Proper taxation is governance in action. That is how its done in all the advanced countries (Europe, Asia and North America)! In these climes dem no born you well make you work and not pay taxes. I want you ask to any Nigerian you know out there, who is either legally or illegally staying abroad.

These so called cart pushers, hawkers, petty traders, market men and women, small and medium scale business owners, artisans, hustlers, aboki, me-suya and many more want to identify with Lagos. They want to do business in Lagos without any hassles but don't want to contribute to its development. This attitude is not the way to go.

Contribute your little quota through tax, that's why the State is working. All hands must be on deck.

They should come to Nigeria, West Africa where we have them ......... everything God created is good ........ humans are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Mokason288:
Two men were governors, Asiwaju Bola TINUBU in Lagos State and
Peter Obi in Anambra . Towards the end of their second term, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos sent his retirement bill and got his House of Assembly to approve what you see below as his yearly pension.

1. 300% annual salary as severance package as approved by RMAFAC.
2. 100% of annual basic salary of incumbent gov as salary for LIFE even after leaving office.
3. Six new cars every 3 years
4. A new house in Lagos, minimum 5 bedroom
5. A new house in Abuja or any other location, minimum 5 bedroom.
6. Free medical care for him and members of his family for life.
7. Entitled to cooks, stewards, Gardners, and domestic staffs, all pensionable.
8. 300% of his annual basic salary as governor every 2 years as furniture allowance
9. 100% of annual basic salary as governor as his house maintenance allowance
10. Two DSS officers, 1 female officer for his wife and eight policemen to guard him.
11. 25% of his annual basic salary for personal assistants.
12. 30% of his annual basic salary for car maintenance .
13. 20% of his annual basic salary as utilities maintenance.
14. Pensionable drivers, no limits to the number.

This is apart from what Bola TINUBU gets as a percentage of collections from Alpha Beta for tax collections for Lagos State and the total control he has over the governor and the treasury.



But see what Peter Obi collects from Anambra State since leaving office as governor:

1. No gratuity
2. No pensions
3. No houses
4. No cars
5. No allowances of any kind
6. No maintenances of any kind.
7. No personal assistants paid by the state.
8. No domestic staffs paid by the state.
9. No aids sponsored by the state.
10. Not even pure water.
11. No shishi from the State.
12. No landed property
13. No trace of any form of corruption on him till date
14. He's still using his personal money to pay school fees for some children of the poor till date.


Now the two men want to be president.

So choose you today who means well for Nigeria and who will serve the people selflessly.

(WHAT TRACK RECORD IS KEYAMO TALKING ABOUT )
It got me thinking, still thinking!

TRACK RECORDS SPEAKS VOLUMES......!!!!

One Governor created "Wealth" for his State, the other "Manages" what comes into the State.

Two different scenarios.

The issue is what has come out these two states after these two governors left office years ago?

Lagos by the virtue of its ever increasing internal revenue profile ( by increasing the tax base and not increasing taxes) continues to be a state that continues to build and develop its infrastructure while Anambra is not. Increasing revenue gives the State leverage to take care of its Governors, Citizens, Workers and take foreign denominated loans to take care of infrastructure deficit in the State.

Where is Anambra State in the league of developed states in Nigeria?
What major or landmark project or visionary project did Obi leave in Anambra State that can sustain them for generations to come?
How many industries were created?
How many people were employed and currently sustained by the Obi legacy in Anambra State?

Creating enabling environment is the Key.
I am not saying Obi did not do well as Governor but what legacy can he point to than I reduced this amount, I travel economy class, I wear one shoe at a time, I wear one cloth, I carry my own bag, I don't travel with many escort?

What level of grassroots politics did he put in place in Anambra State?
If he was that good, why was he not able to sustain the momentum by bringing someone who could continue from where he stopped?
He was chased out of APGA that gave him the platform to become Governor that is the fact.

Governance is all about creating wealth for your people and sustaining that growth path, that is what makes the difference between the two Governors.

Mokason288:
Two men were governors, Asiwaju Bola TINUBU in Lagos State and
Peter Obi in Anambra . Towards the end of their second term, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos sent his retirement bill and got his House of Assembly to approve what you see below as his yearly pension.

1. 300% annual salary as severance package as approved by RMAFAC.
2. 100% of annual basic salary of incumbent gov as salary for LIFE even after leaving office.
3. Six new cars every 3 years
4. A new house in Lagos, minimum 5 bedroom
5. A new house in Abuja or any other location, minimum 5 bedroom.
6. Free medical care for him and members of his family for life.
7. Entitled to cooks, stewards, Gardners, and domestic staffs, all pensionable.
8. 300% of his annual basic salary as governor every 2 years as furniture allowance
9. 100% of annual basic salary as governor as his house maintenance allowance
10. Two DSS officers, 1 female officer for his wife and eight policemen to guard him.
11. 25% of his annual basic salary for personal assistants.
12. 30% of his annual basic salary for car maintenance .
13. 20% of his annual basic salary as utilities maintenance.
14. Pensionable drivers, no limits to the number.

This is apart from what Bola TINUBU gets as a percentage of collections from Alpha Beta for tax collections for Lagos State and the total control he has over the governor and the treasury.



But see what Peter Obi collects from Anambra State since leaving office as governor:

1. No gratuity
2. No pensions
3. No houses
4. No cars
5. No allowances of any kind
6. No maintenances of any kind.
7. No personal assistants paid by the state.
8. No domestic staffs paid by the state.
9. No aids sponsored by the state.
10. Not even pure water.
11. No shishi from the State.
12. No landed property
13. No trace of any form of corruption on him till date
14. He's still using his personal money to pay school fees for some children of the poor till date.


Now the two men want to be president.

So choose you today who means well for Nigeria and who will serve the people selflessly.

(WHAT TRACK RECORD IS KEYAMO TALKING ABOUT )
It got me thinking, still thinking!

TRACH RECORS SPEAKS VOLUMES......!!!!

One Governor created "Wealth" for his State, the other "Manages" what comes into the State.

Two different scenarios.

The issue is what has come out these two states after these two governors left office years ago?

Lagos by the virtue of its ever increasing internal revenue profile ( by increasing the tax base and not increasing taxes) continues to be a state that continues to build and develop its infrastructure while Anambra is not. Increasing revenue gives the State leverage to take care of its Governors, Citizens, Workers and take foreign denominated loans to take care of infrastructure deficit in the State.

Where is Anambra State in the league of developed states in Nigeria?
What major or landmark project or visionary project did Obi leave in Anambra State that can sustain them for generations to come?
How many industries were created?
How many people were employed and currently sustained by the Obi legacy in Anambra State?

Creating enabling environment is the Key.
I am not saying Obi did not do well as Governor but what legacy can he point to than I reduced this amount, I travel economy class, I wear one shoe at a time, I wear one cloth, I carry my own bag, I don't travel with many escort?

What level of grassroots politics did he put in place in Anambra State?
If he was that good, why was he not able to sustain the momentum by bringing someone who could continue from where he stopped?
He was chased out of APGA that gave him the platform to become Governor that is the fact.

Governance is all about creating wealth for your people and sustaining that growth path, that is what makes the difference between the two Governors.

Freethinker87:
Fashola did, not Tinubu. Under Tinubu, bar beach almost swallowed Victoria island and he didn't do anything about it. Tinubu's administration was filled with mediocrity and nonchalance.

Stop arogating the achievements of Fashola and Ambode to Tinubu. It's not fair. I grew up in Lagos and under Tinubu, we stopped getting pipe borne water from our taps. The showers stopped working.

The public means of transportation under Tinubu was Molue, not BRT. BRT was Fashola's brainchild. The Oshodi terminal you agbadorians like to flaunt was Ambode's achievement.

Eko Atlantic was Fashola's achievement too. Go and verify.

Stop the lies...........

Bar Beach Erosion Project was conceived and the Phase One was completed when Tinubu was about to leave Office after his second term in office. It was commissioned during the campaign for Raji Fashola. Tinubu's Administration also conceived the Eko Atlantic City, Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki Port, the Blue and Red Light Rail, BRT (Bus Rapid Transport) bus lane and buses, Expanding the TAX net rather than increasing taxes to generate more IGR, LATSMA, Internet Facility within the Secretariat, Alausa-Ikeja, Lagos State Economic Blue Print and Master Plan, Private Waste Disposal under LAWMA, Decentralization of Local Government Administration by creating LCDAs (after conducting a Referendum for Local Government creation according to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria) and many more.

He was the only Governor who introduced Private Electricity through ENRON that was frustrated by President Obasanjo. This same electricity is now in place through IPP and Private Partnership in the Ikeja Secretariat and was completed by Raji Fashola.

Most of these projects can not be completed at one go, they take time and require huge funding. A good administrator looks into the future and ensures sustainability to create more wealth for the people he governs.

Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo-olu are those who added more value to what was already going on in Lagos.

Please verify your facts.

nony43:
Lagos this Lagos that abeg Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 77 freaking years. It is not waste land. open up ports in other SS/Sw states and watch their revenue drop.Look at Abj that is the capital for 30 years now see as development is hitting them, this one wants to use it to compare to Anambra of yesterday. Even with it’s erosion striken lands and a little left for people to build. Obi was able to make Anambra one of the biggest exporters of vegetable to Europe earning over $5m from it. Then imagine if he was the Governor of Niger state that is the biggest state in Nigeria.

Are you serious at all?
Where in Nigeria are they exporting vegetables to Europe and making $5 million haba!

to correct you, Lagos Island and Victoria Island constiyute the Capital of Nigeria and not the entire Lagos. The remaining part of Lagos (Lagos Mainland, Surulere, Ojo, Ikeja, Mushin, Oshodi, Epe, Badagry, Ikorodu, Lekki and others) were part of the Old Western Region and later Lagos State.

Correcting you still, most Lagos lands (wetlands) facing the Atlantic ocean or the lagoon are below water level and sand filling and proper drainage channels have made them habitable as it is done in other climes.

nony43:
Lagos this Lagos that abeg Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 77 freaking years. It is not waste land. open up ports in other SS/Sw states and watch their revenue drop.Look at Abj that is the capital for 30 years now see as development is hitting them, this one wants to use it to compare to Anambra of yesterday. Even with it’s erosion striken lands and a little left for people to build. Obi was able to make Anambra one of the biggest exporters of vegetable to Europe earning over $5m from it. Then imagine if he was the Governor of Niger state that is the biggest state in Nigeria.

Are you serious all, where in Nigeria are they exporting vegetables to Europe?

Lagos Island, part of the Mainland and Victoria Island were the Capital of Nigeria and not the entire Lagos. The remaining part of Lagos (Ikeja, Mushin, Epe, Badagry, Ikorodu and others) were part of the Old Western Region.

The lady should stop castigating others, she should lead too.

She has not gone to prison to chop beans like the heroes..........

Madam Chimamanda come and put your neck on the line on streets of Nija and lead protest.....and see heroes.

Overpriced.......

For Ikeja, Alausa here 4 Amala balls with ewedu and gbegiri for 400 Naira, 1 ogunfe for 500 and 1 correct bottled water.

I'm good to go.

This combination is for the rich.

Ordinary Garri and water is the life saver and most popular food in Nigeria.

This is stale news!!!

The incidence happened since the 16th of June, 2022.

Come on Ndigbo this 2022 and not 1972

Back in the Chaka Zulu days, it was done with only a spear and shield.

That's the African way.

Facing the fierst beast bare chested, with your ancestors behind you.

The African heritage.

The seat compounded the guy's setting.
Kai!!!

This is uncomfortable.

Even me sef, I go complain to the organisers.

Almighty God will help us all in this country, thieves! thieves!! and thieves!!! in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria.

Almighty God will help us all in this country, thieves! thieves!! and thieves!!! in all the books and crannies of Nigeria.

Who no like better thing?

Age cheating in football competition in full glare. WAFU B West Africa, why now?

Battling cancer is not easy, na Almighty God and the money dey sustain the woman.

Abeg God help her in Jesus name.

Uncle FFK is bad market for Ashiwaju Camp.
No permanent friend, no permanent foe in politics.

Uncle FFK is bad market for Ashiwaju Camp.
No permanent friend, no permanent for in politics.

Dagrin is the soldier,
the trail blazer,
the Real G wey all others follow when it comes to rapping fluently in Yoruba.

May his soul continue to rest in peace.

This is 2022 and the general elections is coming up in 2023.

The world has evolved beyond all these comments.

These comments don't hold water any longer. It's time to consolidate and move ahead.

Oyinbo go kill us with lies,

Lagos where I have lived all life is uninhabitable to them.

We are on ground here, over 30 million people work, walk and hustle on the streets of Lagos daily.

Las las !!!

Stubborn Son go meet Stubborn Papa. Son come carry Elders go the meeting.

Everybody don dey laugh.

"The Last Man Standing" has finally gone to Ota Farms to see "Ebora Owu"

I see "Consolidation" all the way ........ everybody go eat breakfast.

Let us all get one thing straight, the Lekki Deep Sea project, Bar Beach Reclamation Project, Eko Atlantic City, Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki Express way and many others were conceived during Governor Bola Tinubu' tenor over Twenty years ago.

"You can't hide the Truth"