I gave N1.2bn to Obanikoro, bank official tells EFCC

Senator Musiliu Obanikoro

Eniola Akinkuotu  and Tobi Aworinde

An official of Diamond Bank, Damola Otuyalo, has told officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he personally handed over N1.2bn to a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and his son, Gbolahan.

The entire exercise was said to have been captured on a Closed Circuit Television.

According to the EFCC, the N1.2bn was part of the N4.7bn paid into the company account of Obanikoro’s sons by the Office of the National Security Adviser during the build-up to the Ekiti and Osun states governorship election in 2014.

Otuyalo, who is the Head of Cash-in-Transit Services, told detectives that his duty was to evacuate excess cash from bank’s branches and move it to locations where money was needed.

The bank official told investigators that on June 16, 2014, he received a call from the Head of Operations and Technology, Mr. Premier Oiwoh, to arrange N1.2bn and pay six beneficiaries.

He said he was asked to pay the following persons: Saturaki Bello N200m; Yusuf Bulama N120m; Chimenum Njoku N250m; Franklin Tolani N150m; Josiah Moses  N280; and Abubakar Sadiq Zanna N200m.

Otuyalo, however, explained that he was unable to pay them the money and that his director then instructed him to move the N1.2bn to the private wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos on June 17.

The bank official was quoted to have said, “The beneficiaries were not available to be paid as I did not see them and I was later directed by Mr. Premier Oiwoh to move the money to the airport where I will be given further instruction.

“We moved the cash to the airport through the Cash-In-Transit vendor, Bankers Warehouse Limited. I contacted the vendor who made the bullion van available for movement. I personally supervised the loading of the money into the bullion van and escorted them to the airport.”

Otuyalo said on getting to the airport around 7am, he was not allowed into the private wing because he and the security detail did not have a gate pass.

He said a few minutes later, Obanikoro’s son came to the main gate and asked the security to let the bullion van in.

The bank official further stated, “When Gbolahan got to the gate, he cleared us and we drove in. My boss, Mr. Premier Oiwoh, called me on the telephone and confirmed to me that Obanikoro was the beneficiary of the money.

“I handed my phone over to Gbolahan and he spoke to my boss. Obanikoro came to meet us at the private wing with two policemen and some friends. I recognised Obanikoro very well because he is popular.”

Otuyalo told detectives that due to the large amount of money involved, it took them several hours to offload the cash unto the aeroplane.

He explained that it took three aeroplanes to carry all the money.

Otuyalo added, “We loaded the first aircraft with money and Obanikoro flew with his friends on the first flight. The second aircraft was loaded with money but it could not carry all the cash due to the size of the aircraft and the weight it could carry.

“I recall that another aircraft was also used to move the final batch of the money from the bullion van. The second and third movements were supervised by Gbolahan after Obanikoro had left with the first flight.

“The operation took several hours because we got to the airport around 7am and left around 4pm. The cash was bagged in cash bags totalling about 65 and everything was offloaded from the bullion van after which I reported to my boss, Mr. Oiwoh.”

Detectives told our correspondent that the N1.2bn was flown to Akure Airport and Obanikoro allegedly handed over the money to an associate of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, who had since been detained by the EFCC.

He added that Officials of Zenith Bank arrived at the Akure Airport tarmac in a bullion van to convey all the cash to the bank’s vault located at 13, Alagbaka Estate, Akure.

He also said that the detective, who presented bank tellers, added that Agbele gave the bank instructions at different times to pay in money into Fayose’s Zenith Bank account even after the elections.

He added, “Agbele directed the bank to pay N137m into the account of Ayodele Fayose with number 1003126654 and Bank Verification Number 22338867502. The bank teller dated June 26, 2014, was filled by Agbele with teller number 0556814.

“Agbele directed the bank to transfer N118, 760, 000 to the same account and paid in N50m cash into Fayose’s account.

“On April 7, 2015, several months later, Fayose personally moved N300m to his fixed deposit account at Zenith Bank with number 9013074033 with his same BVN. The account is domiciled at 15 Olusola Abiona Street, Estate, Alapere, Ketu, Lagos.”

The source added that on the instruction of Fayose, Agbele deposited N100m to the account of Spotless Investment Limited, a hotel which is owned by Fayose and his wife, Olayemi.

Fayose allegedly used part of the money to buy houses in Abuja and Lagos. The houses had since been seized while his bank account with a balance of N380m was frozen.

Both Fayose and Obanikoro have denied the allegations levelled against them.

One of Obanikoro’s media aides, Mr. Jonathan Eze, told one of our correspondents on Saturday that he was driving and would call back. He was yet to do so as of press time.

When contacted, Head, Media Relations/Corporate Communications of Diamond Bank, Mr. Mike Omeife, told one of our correspondents that he could not confirm the report.

He said, “I have not been able to confirm from the unit what he (Otuyalo) said. I need to get the information from the unit; I need to get clarifications, and will then, get back to you.

“This is  weekend. I need to get authentic information from the unit before speaking to you.”

Copyright PUNCH.       

Secret deal for 2019: Atiku, Mimiko plot new party, joint ticket

Apparently dissatisfied with the suppressed musings in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the perennial crisis in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), key figures in both parties are mulling what a source called ‘a strong third force’.
If ongoing secret consultations are fruitful, the third force is a new political party ahead of the 2019 presidential election that would witness the pairing of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the incumbent governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, as presidential candidate and running mate respectively, Sunday Telegraph gathered. Curiously, while Atiku, with eyes glued to the presidency, belongs to the APC, the Ondo State governor is of the PDP and indeed, a key figure in the resolution of the crisis in the opposition party.
Mimiko’s tenure will lapse in February 2017. According to a highly placed source, the new party will emerge in the last quarter of 2017, even as a positive outcome (for the PDP) of the November 2016 governorship election in Ondo State is the likely template for the permutation.
The SDP, Falae/Afenifere link
As part of the plan, a meeting between the former vice president and former presidential candidate and national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae, might hold in a couple of weeks, barring the unforeseen.
The source said the SDP is one of the options being stratified by the duo of Atiku and Mimiko, if the idea of a fresh political party appears cumbersome. Falae, an Afenifere chieftain from Ondo State and political benefactor of the governor, is expected to mobilize the pan Yoruba organisation across the South-West as a ‘counter force to the existing power equation in the region’.
The source said, ‘’Like a nation in want of leadership, proper leadership and a new dawn will soon face the country because what Nigerians are getting is not what they bargained for. The change mantra appears to be fading and some persons are beginning to think otherwise.
‘’As it was in the run up to the last presidential election, whereby hitherto antagonistic persons came together for a common cause and installed the current government, we are looking at the possibility of mobilizing all and sundry to rescue the nation from nepotisim.
‘’From all indications, the current leadership has failed the nation and if you read what a North West leader said in an interview today (yesterday), you need no one to tell you that we require a drastic political direction.
‘’In the process, anything can happen, including the registration of a new political party or reviving an existing one because in all the major parties, that is PDP and APC, there are problems.
‘’So we are going to reach out to our major political bloc, the Afenifere, as well as some of the Third Republic SDP governors who are now sidelined in the two parties.” Asked about the possibility of a new party flourishing in the South West, when the current vice president hails from there, the source said it was immaterial.
‘’That is immaterial. As far as some of us are concerned, whether he is VP or not, Osinbajo does not have the political sagacity of the Ondo State governor. I ask, can a Buhari or whoever and Osinbajo APC ticket beat an Atiku/ Mimiko ticket?
‘’They can longer deceive our people because the truth has come out. They shouted restructuring before election and abandoned it after their victory. Are these people trustworthy? Definitely, a counter force to the existing power equation in the region is about to be reinvigorated’’, the source said.
..Any role for Kuku as Ondo guber race test-runs plot ?
Sunday Telegraph gathered that as a possible inroad and sustenability in the South West, the former vice president was partly instrumental to the choice of the immediate past Ondo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, as Governor Mimiko’s preferred candidate of the PDP for the November governorship election. Atiku and Jegede are friends, the latter having resided in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, for almost two decades and has been a personal friend and counsel to the former vice president.
The opposition from a section of the party’s leadership notwithstanding, Jegede looks good to emerge as the PDP candidate and he’s reportedly groomed to prepare grounds for the new party if he becomes governor.
Mimiko is said to have also successfully planted his loyalist, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, as South West chairman of the PDP even as he has opened discussions with self-exiled former presidential aide, Kingsley Kuku. Governor Mimiko, it was gathered, has sent a delegation of state government officials to Kuku in the United States of America, where he is currently based, to firm up details of the governor’s overtures.
Details ares still sketchy as at the time of this report, but it was gathered that Kuku has reportedly insisted that he should be picked as Jegede’s governorship running mate to have his support.
Sunday Telegraph learnt that in the ensuing permutation, Kuku, of the Ijaw extraction, has promised to leverage on his links with his kinsmen, the largest ethnic group in the South South cutting across Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa- Ibom, to mobilize for the envisioned party and make an Inroad into the troubled Niger Delta.
Kuku had declared his intention to be governor before fleeing the country, following manhunt for him my the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged financial impropriety as head of the Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme.
Atiku has maintained, on many occasions, that he remains a committed member of the APC, but reports have been rife since the beginning of the year that the former vice president has severally complained of being sidelined in the affairs of the party.
His subtle but controlled criticism of the present government has been noticed in the last few months just as he has secretly embarked on a nationwide consultation with his political associates with a view to redirecting his political future.
It will be recalled that Atiku drew the ire of the Presidency and leadership of APC as, aside decrying lack of focused leadership, he openly canvassed for the restructuring of the country, an idea President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, have discredited.
Although it could not be independently confirmed, Atiku was reportedly summoned and cautioned by the national leadership of the APC for his various utterances in the media.
He was said to have equally protested against the return of the erstwhile chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to the APC.
Atiku and Ribadu, both from Adamawa State, have had several running battles.
While Ribadu held sway at the EFCC under former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Atiku was dislodged from the then ruling party, the PDP, in the run up to the 2007 presidential election.
Reports have it that the former anti corruption czar, an elder brother of the president’s wife, Aisha Buhari, was encouraged to join the party by the First Lady and former president, Obasanjo, who is yet to mend fences with his estranged former deputy for over 10 years now.

How minister revoked 245 NITDA recruitment

By Abdul-Rahman Abubakar

The Minister of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shittu

The Minister of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has revoked the recruitment of 245 graduates as senior staff of the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) which was conducted in 2015 after his own state got only one slot, investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has revealed.
Spokesperson of the Agency, Hajiya Hadiza Umar said the exercise was stopped by the Minister because the former Director General of NITDA, Mr. Peter Jack neglected due process in conducting the recruitment exercise.

Hadiza Umar told our reporter through telephone interview that “the employment process did not follow due process because employment letters were issued to the applicants even before the Federal Character Commission (FCC) granted waiver to the Agency to conduct the recruitment without advertising the available vacancies as required by law.”
She said the Minister stopped the recruitment process after realising that it did not follow laid down procedure and that “most of those employed don’t have the requisite skills to adequately bridge the manpower gap at the agency.”
But one of the successful applicants, who spoke to our reporter on condition of anonymity, said “the minister rejected the list because his state was not properly represented on the list of successful applicants. He has brought additional names that he wants added to the list that is the cause of the delay in posting the applicants.”
He said appointment letters were issued to the ‘successful applicants’ adding that “we have even done documentation and submitted details for our ID cards when the process was suspended. We were only waiting to be posted.”
The list of the successful applicants containing names of 245 graduates, including first degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) holders was approved by the Federal Character Commission (FCC) in a letter to NITDA dated 30th December, 2016.
FCC had in the letter obtained by our reporter conveyed its approval for the recruitment exercise and issuance of letters of appointment to successful applicants. “Having substantially complied with the provisions of our circular letter, I am to inform you that the Acting Chairman has acceded to your request.
“Consequently, I am to convey approval of a certificate of compliance in your favour as authority to issue letters of appointment to two hundred and forty five (245) successful candidates as contained in the list herewith attached,” the Federal Character Commission said in the letter signed by D. O. Fakeye, Director, Monitoring and Enforcement.
The commission also directed NITDA to issue letters of appointment to the 245 successful applicants “within three (3) months from the date of issuance of the Certificate (of Compliance), otherwise, it shall become lapse and shall require revalidation.”
However, seven months after the issuance of Certificate of Compliance by the FCC and completion of the recruitment process, NITDA is yet to absorb the 245 successful applicants.
Daily Trust on Sunday gathered that the minister’s state of origin, Oyo State, had the name, Agbaje Adewale Ifedapo as the only successful applicant that hails from the state.
Documents obtained by our reporter indicate that an additional list of 20 applicants was added as attachment for approval contrary to the provision of the Federal Character Commission directive stamped on the list of the successful candidates that “any alteration to this list without the prior consent of the Commission (FCC) renders it invalid and will attract appropriate penalties.”
A further look at the additional list revealed inconsistency’ as some of the names were repeated on both the list of successful applicants released by NITDA and the additional list allegedly drafted by the minister. For instance, Abioye Jimoh A.; who is captured on the list of successful candidates as a holder of B.Sc Data Analysis from Ogun state, was repeated on the additional list as holder of Master of Arts (MA) in Peace and Development Studies. Such discrepancy affects about 11 of the applicants, whose names are on both lists.
It was also found that the recruitment process was not advertised as NITDA requested for waiver from the FCC to make the recruitment exercise secret. NITDA in a letter dated November 6, 2015 to the FCC said “The Agency is presently growing its network of Zonal, States and LGA offices and has shortage of skilled professional manpower. We therefore wish to request for a waiver of advertisement to enable the Agency recruit 250 skilled staff in the senior and junior categories.
“We already have a pool of curriculum vitae from the previous recruitment exercises and the available vacancies will not be commensurate with the number of expected responses if advertised. We are also constrained for time as the exercises needs to be concluded within the shortest possible period.”
The request for waiver was approved by the FCC through a letter dated 14th December, 2015. The Commission said “based on the explanations offered by you (NITDA), the Commission has granted your request for waiver of advertisement only.”
Spokesperson of NITDA, Hajia Hadiza said the entire recruitment exercise had been cancelled and that the agency was in the process of conducting a fresh exercise. According to her, “employment letters were issued to the applicants even before the waiver by FCC. The former DG did not even ask Heads of Departments to present Skill Gap Analysis before the exercise was conducted.
“We were just at the agency when we saw large number of people saying that they have been employed. They did not apply, they were only asked to send CVs. We were here, we did not know, we just saw new staff.”
She said the agency does not even have the capacity to appoint 245 staff saying “we presently have about 150 staff. The agency does not even have the financial capacity to employ 245 additional staff. Our total personnel cost is about N1.5 billion annually.”
Hajia Hadiza said the 245 applicants can reapply during the next round of recruitment exercise and “they will be considered if they fit into the positions that they are applying. Heads of Departments are presently conducting Skill Gap Analysis to determine vacancies in each department.” She also said there won’t be special consideration for such applicants.
She further stated that the next recruitment is to improve manpower at the Office of Nigeria Content (ONC) and the Office of IT and Entrepreneurship Innovation which are both under the Agency. “The number of vacancies will not even be more than ten (10)”, she said.
Hadiza Umar debunked the claim that the Minister stopped the process over personal interest, saying “it is not true; the minister did not cancel the process because he wanted some applicants to get the jobs. Let me tell you there were internal complaints from staff that have not been promoted since they were employed and suddenly 245 new staff were issued letters to come as their seniors. That was the beginning of the problem, it all started from internal complaints and there were also no spaces for the new employees.”
Efforts to get the minister’s reaction did not yield result as calls put to the phone of his media assistant were not answered and he did not respond to the text message sent to his mobile phone.
But the minister had earlier told Daily Trust on Sunday that the staff were only employed through the back door by a former NITDA Director General, Mr. Peter Jack.
Shittu said government cancelled their appointments because it was hurriedly done by the immediate past NITDA DG when he went ahead with the recruitment despite directive to the contrary.
Documents obtained by Daily Trust on Sunday however showed that the recruitment exercise was approved by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry. In response to a memo signed by Mr. Jack dated November 6, 2015, the Permanent Secretary gave a ‘no objection’ to the recruitment exercise.

Number of successful candidates according to states
1.    Abia State    4
2.    Adamawa State     9
3.    Akwa Ibom State    8
4.    Anambra State    10
5.    Bauchi State    6
6.    Bayelsa State    4
7.    Benue State    8
8.    Borno State    5
9.    Cross River State    17
10.    Delta State    16
11.    Ebonyi State    7
12.    Edo State    10
13.    Ekiti State    3
14.    Enugu State    10
15.    FCT    7
16.    Gombe State    8
17.    Imo State    7
18.    Jigawa State    8
19.    Kaduna State    9
20.    Kano State    9
21.    Katsina State    7
22.    Kebbi State    2
23.    Kogi State    9
24.    Kwara State    6
25.    Lagos State    3
26.    Nasarawa    5
27.    Niger State    5
28.    Ogun State    5
29.    Ondo State    4
30.    Osun State    5
31.    Oyo State    1
32.    Plateau State    8
33.    Rivers State    6
34.    Sokoto State    2
35.    Taraba State    3
36.    Yobe State    4
37.    Zamfara State     1

CPC Inaugurates Hassan Lawal –led Merger Committee

FOR RECORD PURPOSE.

The National Chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has commissioned a 33-member committee to plan the Party’s convention that is expected to endorse the Merger with the other progressive Parties.
A statement on Wednesday by Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.) national publicity secretary, CPC said  the Committee is headed by Dr. Hassan Muhammadu Lawal, CON with other notable members including  Senators Sani Saleh, Abubakar Sadiq Yar’adua, Hadi Sirika, Solomon Ewuga, Saleh Damboyio, Ibrahim Musa and Abu Ibrahim.

Others are Hon Abdullahi Idris Garba, Hon Garba Datti, Gen India Garba (Rtd), Chief Alex Hart, Mr Eddy Ogunbor, Barr Sharon Ikeazor, Chief Jerry Johnson, Otunba Basirat Noibi, Mr Chris Hassan, Dr Louis Ogbuefi, Alh Munir Yakubu, Alh Suleiman Hassan, Owelle Oscar Udoji, Dr
Idika Ochaa, Dr Marliyya Zayyan.

Also On NewsdiaryOnline  Experts: Persistent Wireless Signal Interference in Nigeria Linked to Poor Regulation

These eminent Nigerians are expected to come up, in less than a week, with the expected day of the National Convention and assiduously plan and implement the convention Project for the Party.

Samuel Ogundipe

Related News

Ex-Appropriation chair, Jibrin, releases more documents exposing lawmakers' "massive budget fraud"July 26, 2016

Budget Padding Scandal: Pictures of Dogara's guest house emergeJuly 31, 2016

Documents expose Nigerian lawmakers' massive budget fraudJuly 25, 2016

Budget Padding Scandal: Pressure mounts on Speaker Dogara to step downJuly 31, 2016

Budget padding: Dogara, Jibrin, bicker over alleged $20,000 bribe to lawmakersJuly 30, 2016

A former chairman of House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has released more documents about the unfolding budget padding scandal in the House.
Mr. Jibrin said the documents confirmed his claims that some lawmakers manipulated line items in the 2016 Appropriation Bill.
Mr. Jibrin became a whistleblower following his controversial removal as chair of the crucial committee.
In one of the documents, Chris Azubago, Appropriation Committee’s deputy chairman, allegedly canvassed up to N109 million worth of ‘constituency’ projects for his Nnewi North Federal Constituency in Anambra State.
A list of several other lawmakers and how they allegedly sponsored projects scattered across several ministries, departments and agencies were also captured by the leaked documents.
The House has remained under fire from Mr. Jibrin since July 21, a day after he was removed as chair of the committee.
Speaker Yakubu Dogara, his deputy, Yusuf Lasun, House Whip, Alhassan Doguwa and Minority Leader, Leo Orgor, have remained Mr. Jibrin’s main target in his campaign, which has so far triggered separate investigations from law enforcement agencies.
Mr. Azubago told PREMIUM TIMES he had not done anything “untoward in allocating projects to my constituency,” saying Mr. Jibrin also “allocated more than N4 billion to his own constituency.”

The documents are published in full below:

Dogara in trouble as Jibrin submits petition to EFCC

 by pmnews   · 

Jibrin at the headquarters of the EFCC this afternoon to deliver his petition against Speaker Dogara and others

• 
• 

Jibrin at the headquarters of the EFCC this afternoon to deliver his petition against Speaker Dogara and others

Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Monday, made true his threat to submit a petition against Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three principal officers of the House to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.Jibrin was sighted at the Yellow House headquarters of the EFCC this afternoon in Abuja to formally deliver his petition against his colleagues for allegedly padding the 2016 budget with as much as N40b.
The lawmaker had earlier stated on his twitter handle that he would be visiting some anti-graft agencies in a bid to substantiate his allegation of budget padding against the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the House.
Jibrin had recently accused the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun, Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, and the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, of attempting to pad N40bn into the 2016 budget.
Jibrin said his aim of visiting the various anti-corruption agencies is to ensure that Dogara and the other principal officers are brought to justice.
According to the former Chairman, he will fully cooperate with investigators to enable them understand the depth of budget fraud and abuse of office by the Speaker.
“We will be at the ICPC 10am, DSS 12noon, EFCC 2pm and Police HQ 4pm. The law will surely catch up with the corrupt Speaker Dogara and others.
“My lawyers have confirmed my appointments for today with security and anti corruption agencies to personally provide insight on my petition.”
Jibrin, while giving an insight into his petition, said his case against the Speaker and others include, “corrupt enrichment, abuse of office and public trust, living above means, massive movement of funds in the budget.
“Our petition to the EFCC and ICPC against Speaker Dogara, Lasun, Doguwa, Ogor and eight other members have been dispatched yesterday,” he added.

SGF, Gbajabiamila In N2.8bn Budget Padding Row As Tinubu Works Behind The Scene To Shield His Preotege

SGF, Gbajabiamila In N2.8bn Budget Padding Row As Tinubu Works Behind The Scene To Shield His Preotege

As the padding controversy in the House of Reps continues to deepens, investigation has shown that one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leaders, Bola Tinubu, has been working round the clock to distance his protégé in the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, House Majority Leader, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, from the scandal.

The Whistler learnt that it was no coincidence that since the scandal broke out, the House Leader has not been mentioned by the main accuser, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, but he has accused all other principal officers including Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

A source in the House of Reps, who asked not to be named, said Jibrin has been promised soft landing if Gbajabiamila is left out of his allegation and will be rewarded if the House Leader is able to gain the Speakership once the “tidal wave of the budget padding scandal sweeps the present leadership away,” the source said.

According to the House source, Tinubu has waited for the opportune time to hit back at Dogara for defying the APC’s directive by emerging Speaker over and above his preferred candidate, Gbajabiamila.

“Is it not curious that since this matter broke out, the House leader’s name has not being mentioned once though he was in the thick of the budgeting process?

“It may interest you to know that so many government officials like the SGF will be caught in this budget padding scandal because the House leader was used to incorporate projects on his behalf and others.”

Documents obtained by The Whistler showed that the House Leader was allocated over N2.8 billion constituency projects with most located in Osun state, Surulere federal constituency, Lagos state, and Niger state.

Most of the projects are to be funded from the Office of the SGF. For instance, 13 projects from the House Leader’s office are meant for Osun state costing over N650million with the funds drawn mainly from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Projects to be funded from the SGF’s office include N200million construction of solar streetlight Wards G, G1, G2, G3, E, E1, F, F1, F2 and F3 in Surulere1 Federal constituency of Lagos state.

Other projects domiciled in the House Leader’s office drawing funds from the SGF’s office include; supply of 5Nos Toyota Hiace buses, N50million; 14Nos Kia Rio and 7 Kia Serato cars, N50million; supply of 100Nos of chest freezers, N24million, supply of mobile toilets N40million amongst other supplies. All for Surulere 1 federal constituency.

The House Leader’s office also inserted projects for Kontagora and Wushishi federal constituencies valued at N100million. The projects are for ICT, hairdressing and barbing salon, tailoring/knitting, borehole/surface tanks, generator house for 60kva, security post and perimeter fencing for an undisclosed location, as well as supply of motorcycles.


The Whistler