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Lagos Speaker, Obasa Speaks On N17 Million Scandal

Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly has eventually broken his silence on the allegation that he has been spending N17million monthly to maintain his personal house and guest house.

Clerk of the House, Mr. Azeez Sanni denied the allegation leveled against the Speaker that he has been spending N17million monthly on the maintenance of his private residence and the Speaker’s Guest House situated at Herbert Macaulay Street, GRA, Ikeja.

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“The money is basically used to cater to the various expenditure of the full offices, which include the office of the Chief of Staff and Special Advisers on Budget and Political Matters. The amount is actually N27million.”

“In fact, it is dated back as far as 2012 when it was N27million monthly and I have the document here to show that the expenditure had been in existence since 2012.”

Obasa added that; “As rightly put by the Clerk, this is an expenditure that has been existing before 2015 and he has been able to trace some document to 2012, 2013, 2014, so it shows SaharaReporters and its co-travelers would not get anywhere and we are not ready to join issues with them.”

“I agree with you that we don’t have to waste our time on them. We remain resolute.”