Victoria

In 2013, Governor @tundefashola commissioned the 1.68km Lekki-Ikoyi link Bridge and proudly announced that it had been fully funded by Lagos State taxpayers, at ₦29b ($195m). Lagosians protested at the idea that a private company - LTC - which had NOT funded any part of the work, would now reap tolls where they sowed nothing. It was the cost that immediately caught my attention, as I had followed - largely because of its engineering complexity - the construction of the 42km Qingdao Jiaozhou Bridge over the Jiaozhou Bay in China, which cost approximately $2.3b ($55m per km) in total. The much, much shorter, and much less complex and technically challenging 1.68km Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge cost Lagosians $143m per km. Let that sink in. The Commissioner for Works that supervised that obvious mismanagement of public funds was @drobafemihamzat. Yes, the same one who is now waxing lyrical about a 100 page "promise" to Lagosians. It was also Hamzat that supervised the signing of the Lagos Blue line construction contract which Fashola announced cost Lagos $1.2b, only for the contractor - CRCC - to announce to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that they were paid $182m for the Blue AND Red lines! Let me not talk about the huge loans obtained for all these projects, some of which are not completed to this day! You can see just how experienced Hazmat is in mismanaging public funds for the benefit of his benefactors and to the detriment of the long suffering Lagos Taxpayers. You see that 100 page kinikan promise he released yesterday? If you allow them to rig him in with their AI Voters, you will realise that right now, as bad as Lagos actually is with bad roads, refuse, lack of water and so on, you are actually living in APC's version of paradise. As experienced hands in the built environment sector, @GRVlagos and I will certainly not allow this kind of Waste, Mismanagement and Imprudence in delivering the multiple projects that we plan to. Lagos can no longer afford it.