Lagos N3.3trn 2025 budget records 80% performance
…says demolition not targeted at any group
The Lagos State Government says its N3.366 trillion 2025 budget has recorded 80 percent performance as of September.
Gbenga Omotosho, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, stated this at the weekend while giving account of the performance of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration and the projects being completed across the state.
“As of September, the budget had done about 79 percent. But it’s over 80 percent performance now. In terms of revenue, we are also doing very well, and in terms of capital projects, we have done about 80 percent.
“And we are doing very well. And I think that the project is working. There is no community that has not felt the positive effects of Governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration. When we had the community day. We could see the excitement on their faces.
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‘’If the government was not doing well in their areas, we would not see such solidarity. We would not see such comradeship. We would not see such excitement,” Omotosho said.
According to the commissioner, projects being done in the state cut across all communities because the government has an agreement with local governments about how to build roads, schools, and other people-oriented
“I remember at one point, they said the local governments should build X number of roads. The state government would match it. So, all the communities and the people are happy. In Badagry, for example, people are now willing to go and live there.
People want to live in Ikorodu. People want to live in Igbogbo. Don’t forget one of the very best housing estates that the Lagos State Government has is in Igbogbo. Don’t forget that we have built more than 15 jetties that have been used in all these local communities. You want to travel from Ikorodu all the way to Lagos Island, it’s about less than 30 minutes. It’s because of what Lagos State Government has done in all those local communities,” he said.
Harping on the demolition that was carried out by the State Government in the Trade Fair Complex, the commissioner ruled out the insinuation in some quarters that it was targeted at a particular group.
He said, ‘’It’s terrible for anybody to be making such suggestions. It’s absurd. It’s unthinkable. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has governed Lagos for about six years. And in those six years, nobody has come out to complain that he has had anything to do with any segregation, discrimination, either in terms of religion, in terms of colour, in terms of racism. Lagosians are Lagosians, and we all know this.
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‘’All of those things that they are talking about, discrimination, they are things that people who don’t even know us are talking about, people who don’t even live in Lagos.
‘’Some of those things that you see on social media, you go and check out all of those who are perpetrating them. They are people who live miles away. And talking specifically about the Trade Fair. I mean, how can you build a house without a permit? It’s not done anywhere.
‘’The government said, look, you can’t do this. It is owned by the Federal Government. That’s fine. What the law says, according to the Supreme Court judgment of a 2003 Attorney-General of Lagos versus Attorney- General of Federation, supported by other states who came into the matter, is that, well, only the states have the permission, the right, the powers to issue permits for anybody to go and build. And that is the way it’s done all over the world,” he said.
