After stepping in as the 15th
Governor of the coastal enclave that is Lagos State, Governor Babajide
Sanwo-Olu has hit the ground running -as he promised. Now after 100 days in
office, the newspaperman can confirm that the government has set aside N4bn as
grants to Lagosians with “ingenious business ideas”; of the 600 people
shortlisted to benefit from the initiative, 50% are expected to be women.
N2million has also been set aside for 1,700 people who will benefit from a
World Bank assisted agricultural programme. Also a 492 flat housing project
named after Lateef Jakande, first civilian governor of the State has been
completed and commissioned; an additional 1,250 homes in different parts of the
State is to be delivered in 6 months. On Education, the Sanwo-Olu government
has begun the hiring of trained teachers to strengthen quality education in its
schools; the Eti-Osa Maternal and Child Centre; the eight of its kind in the
State has also been commissioned to improve secondary Health Care facilities in
the State as well as reduce the stress expectant women go through while trying
to reach mainland. The disappearance of
heaps of garbage on major streets is also credited to the Sanwo-Olu’s
government. Corporate organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and
religious institutions are to be received with open arms in partnership that
would be beneficial to the State.
How the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan frittered away the nation’s scarce resources is beginning to spill out – despite the shrill insistence by ex-Finance Minister, Okonjo Iweala that the records sheet were clean! Information pieced together by our investigators show that several paramilitary Agencies under the Federal Ministry of Interior shared a record 10 billion each for the purpose of influencing the March 28 General Elections in favour of the defeated incumbent. However, things did not go down well with the ranks and file during the sharing. Outgoing Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Boss (name withheld) was said to have misappropriated the huge booty by allegedly pocketing 5 billion for himself, while declaring the other half (5 billion) as the sum total. The bone of contention was that while the rank and file received 40,000 each some key associates close to the big guns went home with a hefty slice. Causing the rumble.
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