Fashola says Corruption and Accountability will make a Mark in February Elections
The governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has said that issues of corruption and accountability will have a large part to play in the outcome of the presidential election in February.
Governor Fashola said this while commissioning the 8.5km Amedokhian-Ugboha road in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State which is a part of works marking the 6th anniversary of the Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s administration.
He said, “We have a national government that is unable to account for money for crude oil that they did not extract; it is the white people that is extracting it for them. The price is fixed internationally, the quantity is known, just to add up and tally.
“They say it is twenty billion that is missing, some say ten billion. Should one dollar have been missing in any responsible government? So that is why corruption and accountability is an issue in the next election.”
Governor Fashola also commended the Edo state government for the project, saying:
“This is the economy of development. This road facilitates transport, it facilitates trade, it facilitates health care delivery and this really is the heart of democracy.
“Government that builds roads does not build roads simply because they want to build roads. They are governments that understand that a community or society cannot be bigger than its infrastructure and the wider the roads, the bigger the prosperity that comes to that community.”