Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

The news is by your side.

- Advertisement -

We did not approve the 820 buses bought by Ambode – Hon. Mudashiru Obasa

For the immediate past governor of Lagos state, Akinwunmi  Ambode things just go from bad to worse every day. He is being pummelled from left, right and centre.

 

A few days after Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, raided both his Ikoyi and  Epe homes, the Hon. Mudashiru Obasa led Lagos State House Of Assembly has begun instituted a panel  to  probe him.

 

The All Progressive Congress, APC, dominated Assembly, is probing the purchase of 820 buses by the Ambode Administration.

 

- Advertisement -

- Advertisement -

The lawmaker representing Eti-Osa 2 constituency, Gbolahan Yishawu, informed the House that at an executive and legislative parley held at Golden Tulip in Festac Town, Lagos, two years ago, Ambode informed the kawmajees that 5,000 buses would be purchased by the State Government to ease Lagosians’ stress in terms of transportation.

ALSO READ  Gov AbdulRazaq Invites EFCC To Probe Local Government Funds

 

Yishawu added that N17 billion was proposed for the purchase of the buses by the executive, but was not approved by the assembly.

 

He, however, stressed that only 820 buses are there for people to see as against the 5,000 Ambode promised to purchase.

 

Yishawu said the House is worried that in the 2018 and 2019 budgets, the state government proposed N24 billion and N7 billion respectively, but these were not approved.  He disclosed that the rest of the buses were still awaiting clearance at the bonded warehouse at the Ports. He emphasised that they were purchased with taxpayers’ money without approval.

ALSO READ  Lagos Adopts Online Verification Exercise For Retirees

 

- Advertisement -

He asked the House to investigate the purchase of the buses and other issues surrounding it.

 

“The state government requested waivers for the importation of the buses and it was not granted. The value of the buses were overrated. Some of the buses are still in the ports and they are attracting demurrage.

 

“N45 billion would be spent on the total purchase of the buses and we need to prevent such an occurrence in the future”, he said.

 

Obasa in his response said: “The vehicles are in the ports and they have been there for almost a year. The state will continue to suffer if we allow the buses to stay in the ports.

ALSO READ  DSS Plays Hide And Seek With Sowore‘s Bail

 

“We should be the regulators of transporters, the state should not operate the buses. The situation should be addressed. We should get the buses to the roads and save the state from further waste.”

 

Obasa then set up a committee headed by Fatal Mojeed, representing Ibeju Lekki 1, to look into the matter and report to the house.

 

The speaker directed the committee to invite the Accountant-General of the state, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, and those involved in the purchase for a full investigation so that everybody would know and appreciate the circumstances surrounding the purchase of the buses.

Comments are closed.