Petition against Fashola: No one is sponsoring us

By Dapo Akinrefon
Mr. Debo Adeniran is the chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt
Leaders (CACOL). In this chat, he dismisses insinuations of
being sponsored to smear the image of former governor of
Lagos State, Mr Raji Babatunde Fashola.
What actually informed the petition is a small business we got
from the Lagos State government in 2009. Since 2009, we have
been communicating to the Lagos State government over the
suspicion that contracts could have been inflated and a number
of malfeasances could have been going on within the
procurement and award of contracts in Lagos State.
We sent our petition to the Lagos State House of Assembly; we
also sent a copy to the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC. The House of Assembly set up a panel to
look at the complaint but the Lagos State government went to
court to stop the investigation. They (Lagos State government)
got an injuction to stop the House and the House wrote to us
that they could not continue with the investigation.
The EFCC said they had invited some directors and principal
officers to give their explanation but they (EFCC) did not give us
any feed back on the interrogation they did. Since then, we have
been reminding the EFCC. May this year, we paid them (EFCC)
an advocacy visit but they did not have any cogent thing to tell
us. We were not to be threatened nor intimidated.
When we got wind that Mr Fashola could be a member of the
federal cabinet under President Muhammadu Buhari, we wrote
to the president that Fashola has a lot of explaining to do
regarding the contracts awarded when he was governor of
Lagos State.
We decided to write to the president not to consider him and that
he (Buhari) should ask the anti-graft agency to investigate the
allegations leveled against him (Fashola) and prosecute him
(Fashola) if found wanting.
Then talking about us being sponsored; if we are being
sponsored by what we want to do, we would be glad to have
such sponsors. We do not have sponsors, we are actually
looking for sponsors so that we can dig deep into the affairs of
Lagos State, to bring out more facts and figures that we can lay
our hands on. The protest will not end until we are answered.
We do not have resources that is why we are limiting it. Nobody
is sponsoring us. We want people who are interested in the
better life for Lagos State to come out and sponsor us, but as
long as they will not tie a string to the sponsorship. What we will
not do is to blackmail people.

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