Following the removal of the budgetary spending of former Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola,
from the website of the state’s procurement agency, BudgIT, a group
which advocates transparency in government, has criticized the Lagos
State Government over the decision.
The group blew the whistle on Fashola’s now controversial website,
stressing that the website is a violation of the objectives of the
procurement agency.
In a letter signed by its Lead Partner, Oluseun Onigbinde, and addressed to Ambode and the office of the state attorney-general Punch reported that BudgIT said it was wrong of the state government to remove the budget without giving any explanation to taxpayers.
“It has come to our notice that previously published awarded contracts between 2013 and 2014 and approved by your agency has been removed from your website, www.lagosppa.gov.ng, without an explanation to taxpaying residents of Lagos and in clear violation of the Lagos State Public Procurement law.
“We wish to bring to your attention Section 8 Subsection 12 of the Lagos State Public Procurement Law 2011 which requires your agency to publish paper and electronic editions of the state procurement journal and procurement manual and maintain an archival system for the state procurement journal.
“The (removal of the budgetary spending) action which, is in clear violation of the objectives of the agency to ensure probity, accountability and transparency, is also an outright negation of Governor Ambode’s promise toLagosians. In his campaign manifesto, Governor Ambode stated that his message is clearly to ‘embrace the three tenets of probity, accountability and transparency” the letter reads in part.
Information posted on the state government’s website, spent N78.3m on his personal website, www.tundefashola.com, and also spent N139m to drill two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja.
The group urged the government to ensure that the budgets were restored on the website as this was the only way to restore public confidence.
The state government recently reversed the alleged allocation of over 25 plots of land by Fashola to his relatives, friends and associates in high-brow Lekki.
Former Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola
In a letter signed by its Lead Partner, Oluseun Onigbinde, and addressed to Ambode and the office of the state attorney-general Punch reported that BudgIT said it was wrong of the state government to remove the budget without giving any explanation to taxpayers.
“It has come to our notice that previously published awarded contracts between 2013 and 2014 and approved by your agency has been removed from your website, www.lagosppa.gov.ng, without an explanation to taxpaying residents of Lagos and in clear violation of the Lagos State Public Procurement law.
“We wish to bring to your attention Section 8 Subsection 12 of the Lagos State Public Procurement Law 2011 which requires your agency to publish paper and electronic editions of the state procurement journal and procurement manual and maintain an archival system for the state procurement journal.
“The (removal of the budgetary spending) action which, is in clear violation of the objectives of the agency to ensure probity, accountability and transparency, is also an outright negation of Governor Ambode’s promise toLagosians. In his campaign manifesto, Governor Ambode stated that his message is clearly to ‘embrace the three tenets of probity, accountability and transparency” the letter reads in part.
Information posted on the state government’s website, spent N78.3m on his personal website, www.tundefashola.com, and also spent N139m to drill two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja.
The group urged the government to ensure that the budgets were restored on the website as this was the only way to restore public confidence.
The state government recently reversed the alleged allocation of over 25 plots of land by Fashola to his relatives, friends and associates in high-brow Lekki.
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