Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has wished Lagosians goodbye few minutes ago on his official Twitter page (see below), saying he is ready to leave office. We just hope the incoming Governor will work, we really hope so. God bless Fashola and we wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
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The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, has ordered the diversion of traffic on all roads leading to Eagle Square on Friday, May 29.
The Square is venue for the inauguration of the incoming administration led by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
A statement yesterday by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the traffic diversion is part of measures to ensure hitch-free presidential inauguration.
The IGP also ordered tight security at Eagle Square, hotels, key and vulnerable places within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as well as the mounting of tactical operation points on all roads leading into and out of the FCT.
The statement conveyed the apologies of the Nigeria Police Force for the inconveniences the arrangements may cause motorists and members of the public.
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Mr Issa Aremu, Deputy National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Thursday said political office holders should publicly declare assets to facilitate easy tracking of ill-gotten wealth.
Aremu gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Kaduna.
“The President-elect has promised to publicly declare his assets. Let all public officers follow. We can then know who has what and who is having an eye on our commonwealth.
“Let nobody earn more than what is recommended by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission”, Mr. Aremu said.
He described Nigeria’s system of governance as most prohibitive with very low dividends for the people.
“Nigeria system of governance is the most prohibitive.
“Worse still is that it delivers low benefits to citizens; poor roads, lack of water, irregular electricity, insecurity and of late scandalous non-sale of petroleum products while government officials remain indifferent”.
Aremu attributed the situation to greed and mismanagement by public office holders.
“May be we should talk of high cost of misgovernance or high cost of no-governance.
“What is responsible is greed not the need of government officials.
“Why would a poor state build houses for two term governors in his state and Abuja and some state assemblies generously awarded governors pension benefits for jobs that are not pensionable”, he queried.
He cited the example of the National Assembly whose budget shot up from N15 billion in 2003 to N150 billion in 2015.
“A lot of what they earn are not salaries but self-awards.
“In the 2003 budget, N15 billion was allocated to the National Assembly and in 2015 they helped themselves to N150 billion.
“Can you see how office holders under-develop Nigeria?”
He insisted that the salaries and allowance of political office holders must be tied to their productivity and made public knowledge.
“It should be linked to their productivity and the income of workers in the country.
“We should discourage widening income gap between ruling elite and poor working men and women”
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