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Fashola blasting PDP like never.....Lagos recurrent expenditure is 49%.....Okonjo Iweala's Budget 86% recurrent expenditure....Even Lateef Jakande supports Change....from 210naira to $1!Iam not coming back to make more promises after broken promises...FasholaSai BuhariAPC Change!!!
We Are Ready!!!Transcript of the speech...Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, eminent Lagosians, I welcome you warmly once again to our traditional 100 day briefing on the state of our State and the progress report on our social contract.
This is the 28th consecutive time that our administration will give this kind of report, either through me directly or through the members of the State Executive Council.
As usual, I will start with our Article of Faith, which is the budget, because it is the disciplined, committed and rigorous application of the budget that manifests in the progress that we report.
In the fourth and final quarter of 2014, our budget performed at 77%, and if you add this to the cumulative, 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarter performances, what you will get is a total budget performance of 83% for 2014.
That is why I am alarmed when I hear a candidate hiding under the umbrella seeking to take this job display so much frightening ignorance about budgeting when he says we spend 3% on education in Lagos State.
Although when I pointed out this error, his script writers have written a recant for him saying that the 3% was for primary education.He is still wrong.Primary education is a constitutional responsibility of the Local Governments and their total expenditure on salaries of teachers, building and repair of schools alone is not 3%.
Every serious and self-respecting Lagosian must see not only the ignorance of that candidate but his lack of experience and preparation.I will now acquaint you with some of the milestones we achieved and the services we rendered in the last 100 days as a result of the dedicated work of our public servants.
Our budget implementation impacted public power and electricity supply even though it is not our responsibility.But we refused to surrender and fold our hands at the failure of a national government that prides itself on the size of the economy, when her citizens live in darkness.
We completed the public lighting on 11 kilometers of road network between Ikorody Road, Jibowu and Murtala Mohammed Way up to Oyingbo on the 24th October 2014.
This will benefit motorists who drive at night, improve security in the area, and afford traders an opportunity to trade late into the night and earn extra income as we have seen in other areas like Obalende, Oshodi, Alimosho, Bariga and Somolu, where we have intervened, with street lighting.
On October 29, 2014, we commissioned the Mainland Independent Power Plant, the 4th IPP since 2007 which is dedicated to serve the Ikeja High Court, the Ikeja Magistrate Court, Ikeja Water Works, the State Police Command and LASUTH, our teaching hospital.So our 2014 budget has impacted healthcare, access to justice, water supply and security.
And while I am still on power supply, I am happy to report to you that the first set of 172 schools and 7 Primary Healthcare Centres that I promised will receive dedicated solar power in my 2700 day address have started coming on stream.
We have handed over the solar power system in Epe Primary Healthcare Centre on January 6, 2015 and 2 (two solar power systems for the Model College in Meiran Alimosho).One will serve the school during the day and the second serves the dormitory and hostel of the students at night.
The one in Kankon Badagry is ready along with others that are being rapidly completed and these facilities, with regular but minimum maintenance, will serve for 25 years.Gradually, one by one, by God, and by the dedication of our workers and the faith of taxpayers we will put the shame of darkness that a failed government and umbrella party has imposed on our children in schools, and on patients in hospitals behind us.
These solar power systems will shed light on their failure, and illuminate our pathway to change.Incidentally while the umbrella candidate in Lagos does not see any good in our public school system, he calls our children’s performance “a failure,” I am happy to report progress in the education of our children.
We continue to inspire our children to improve on their performance. They are not failures like the leader of their party who admitted his failure.It is clear that the language of failure is spreading in their party, and their candidate in Lagos has caught the bug of failure.Out of 21 PDP states he could only mention 3 states when they gave him the microphone to speak in Lagos.This is a 14% knowledge of states in his party.
Our children have done better than this.They are the party of failed people and failed promises.Our children will succeed because their generation will not fail.It is on this note that I am happy to report progress in education during the last 100 days.At the 19th Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientists competition, popularly called JETS, which held in Abuja from 7th – 14th December 2014, by the Federal Ministry of Education and 36 state Ministries of Education and the FCT, Lagos State emerged as the overall best state with the following results:1st Position in Inter-state quiz competition1st Position in National Theme Project1st Position in Free Choice Project1st and 3rd Positions in Physics2nd Position in Biology3rd and 4th Positions in Mathematics5th Position in Agricultural ScienceMiss Inaugwu Kelechi, from Lagos State Model College, Kankon, Badagry, emerged at the best female JETS student at the end of the competition.....Apart from power and education, we were busy in the housing sector.
We successfully held the 9th and 10th draws of the LagosHoms Scheme, where we demonstrated that a well implemented budget can provide shelter for ordinary people.
We also completed the Agbowa Housing Scheme in partnership with First World settlement and will commence our rent to own scheme from here.The response of our opponents to our housing programme is a bundle of their expertise – LIES, DECEPTION and cosmetic responses.
They have not built any, but their candidate says he will teach us how to build low cost housing like Alhaji Jakande.
When he gets to talk to Alhaji Jakande, he will be told that the Naira was a stronger currency at the time and was not the devalued currency their party has turned it into today.It is obvious that he does not understand that at over 210 to $1, and at 24% interest rate, prices of building materials are going to rise.
This is not a bold idea as he calls it, it is bold and stark ignorance.Their equally ignorant spokespersons, accuse us of selling a house for N 124m.
I have news for them; we are not profligates like them, who spend over N 2 Trillion Naira importing petrol that we can produce. The sum of N 124m will build a block of 12 (twelve) flats, which we offer to citizens on a mortgage of 10 years at 9.5%.Their candidate in Lagos says he has a bold idea to give you value for money.We have set up a Public Procurement system which is already setting an example across the country.
Let him ask his party and Government at the Centre to lead by example; by showing the same value for money in the procurement of N2 Trillion worth of petroleum products.Please ask him what value of petroleum products Nigerians received for this unbudgeted expenditure?Nigerians know that the value is in SURE pockets and TAN.
While they have no housing estate they can point to, they either divert our money or share it and then go and borrow $300m from the World Bank, while they cannot account for $20b and want to give all Nigerians $300m (about N63b at 210 to $1.00) for mortgage refinancing.Is it N 63 Billion that will solve Nigeria’s housing problem? It sounds like the N10 change they recently offered on petrol.
What they are saying in effect is that all Nigerians who need homes should go and take a mortgage at a bank, at 24%, and all of us should come and share N63bn to refinance the mortgage loan.
This is their half-baked housing policy for Nigeria. Where are the houses?If this is transformation in the housing sector, may it never come to Lagos.Finally, they say that we are building for the elite.
I must commend Lagosians who resisted their attempt to stop the Ilubirin Housing project. Those who pass through the 3rd Mainland Bridge every day can see the housing units rising up, block by block, financed by your taxes.
You will see the same thing in Ibeshe in Ikorodu, in Ajara in Badagry, in Alausa behind the Secretariat, in Oko-Oba in Agege, on the Gbagada Highway, in Igbogbo in Ikorodu, in Sangotedo in Eti-Osa, in Badia in Ijora, in Odo-ona-Osa in Agbowa, and piling work is in progress in Agiliti in Agboyi Ketu, while Mushin, Igando, and Ilupeju have been completed.
If it is the elite who live in these areas we are proud to provide service for them.
We are a Government of all our people.In the area of Health Care, apart from the Epe Primary Health care centre which is now a 24-Hour service centre because of the Solar Power, we achieved a major milestone in local capacity building.We performed the first cochlear implant surgery in Lagos successfully.
What this means is that the patient, who was deaf, can now hear again.It opens a new window of opportunities and possibilities to people who cannot hear or who have hearing defects because I have directed that the programme be expanded.
With your taxes we can extend it to those who cannot afford it.Our budget impact was also felt in the area of security.We successfully completed the Area C Police Command, a Federal structure, and we have also completed Elemoro, Alimosho and Ilashe Area Commands that will shortly be handed over.
We have installed computers, servers, data back up and record keeping facilities powered by solar in 97 Police Stations across Lagos.
We handed over the first of these in Ogudu just a few days ago.Let me be clear that this is not our responsibility.
But when a government and a party choose to export your money in private jets in the search for security equipment, we must respond to support Policemen and women who have shown a great commitment to keeping all of us safe in spite of neglect by their employer, who denied them a merry Christmas by not paying their salaries.
I am sure that the allowances we support the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) with from your taxes would have helped to make Christmas less bleak for them and their families.
Instead of supporting the Police, they are busy dismantling the system we have put in place here, while we are planning how to provide more cars for patrol for each police station.
Their latest move is to re-deploy the Commander of the RRS, the unit that responds to violent crimes like robberies, out of the State.
This was the officer with whom we built the Security Trust Fund that has helped to support Government funding for the State.
But as if this was not enough, they have shown the contempt they have for your safety by re-deploying the AIG Zone 2, a few weeks to election.This was a man who had served here as Commissioner of Police and knows the terrain and the recent crime patterns.
Now that they have done all these, they have removed all banners of the APC candidate on all electricity poles using security and replaced them with that of the President; asking you to vote for him.
watch some rally videos and also what fashola says .
