Why Buhari should not give Fashola appointment – CACOL

Why Buhari should not give
 Fashola appointment – CACOL

By Wale Odunsi on August 7,
2015 

Coalition Against Corrupt 
Leaders, CACOL, has urged
 President Muhammadu Buhari 
not to consider the immediate 
past Governor of Lagos State,
Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), for appointment. 

CACOL Executive Chairman,
Debo Adeniran, told The Punch 
that Fashola’s administration 
must be probed to prove he is
 clean.

 Adeniran recalled that 
following disclosure of may
 dilapidated schools in the 
state, Socio-Economic Right
 Accountability Project used 
the Freedom of Information Act to know how the Fashola
 government spent a $200m 
World Bank education funds. 

He state government refused 
to disclose, on the claim that 
the FOI Act did not apply to
 state governments. 

Continuing, Adeniran said 
CACOL investigation showed
 that the 1.36km Lekki-Ikoyi 
Link Bridge, which was
 reportedly built for N25bn,
cost only N6bn.

 He said he had written a series 
of petitions to the Economic
 and Financial Crimes
 Commission to probe the 
various projects of the Fashola 
government in the face of the over N500bn debt left behind
 by the government.

 He said he was shocked to find
out that the commission had 
continued to ignore all the
 petitions despite the fact that 
Fashsola no longer enjoyed
 immunity, having left office over 60 days ago.

 In a letter addressed to the 
President titled, ‘Don’t elevate 
Fashola,’ CACOL noted :

 “Mr.
President, we are constrained 
at this point in time to bring
 to your attention our critical reaction to the unbridled 
speculation making the 
rounds for some time now,
from the members of the
 public as well as the media, as 
to the fact that the immediate past governor of Lagos State,
Mr. Babatunde Fashola, is
 being considered by the 
presidency for higher national 
responsibility.

 “Feelers have it that his name 
is prominent on the list of the
 president’s nominees for key
 offices in your administration.

 “It is gratifying that you have 
promised at various fora that
 your appointments would be
 purely based on merit and
 that tested technocrats, with 
impeccable records, would be given their rightful places in
 your administration, as a way of ensuring good
 governance to the people of
 Nigeria.

 “It is against this background 
that our organisation is
 appealing to you to please 
take the pains to dig deep into
 Mr. Babatunde Fashola’s record 
of performance as well as that of financial propriety on the
 part of his government while
in office”. 

Source: Daily Post.