The Lagos State Public Procurement Agency (PPA) has published a
report which shows the spendings of Babatunde Fashola during his term as
the governor of Lagos state.
According to the report, the former governor spent N139million on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja.
In 2013 Fashola’s administration spent N640million for the
reconstruction of a car park at the Lagos House, Marina, where the
governor lived during his 8 years at office.
The relocation of cables belonging to the Power Holding Company of
Nigeria at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital cost N300million
while replacement of the railings of a pedestrian bridge on Carter
Bridge from Ido to Idumota cost N175million.
The report discloses that Fashola also spent money on the Lagos State
University College of Medicine and Ajara-Erekiti-Iragon-Ikoga Road
(N220million and N619million respectively)
The construction of an unidentified multi-storey building in Onikan
and a 48-bedroom hotel at Lagos State VIP Chalets took N1.2billlion and
N1.6 billion.
Fashola spent N510million at the official residence of the state’s chief judge at 4 Thompson Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to the report, Ajara Senior Grammar School, Ajara Badagry
and Community Senior/Junior Secondary School, Bayeku, Ikorodu
got N165million each on an 18-block classrooms.
The Lagos State Public Procurement Agency (the Agency) was
established on the 2nd of April, 2012 under the Lagos State Public
procurement Law, 2011 (the Law), The objectives of the
Agency are to
ensure probity, accountability and transparency in Public Procurement
throughout Lagos State.
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