I have not Purchased an Official Car since I became Governor – Sanwo-olu reveals
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has disclosed that he has not purchased an official car for himself since he assumed office in May 2019.
Speaking during the 22nd Annual Tax Conference of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria held at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island in Lagos on Thursday November 5, Sanwo-Olu urged other governors to look into their expenditure profile and do away with unnecessary spending to increase state revenue for the government to have more resources to meet the basic needs of the people.
Stressing the need for better utilisation of taxpayers’ money by public officeholders, Governor Sanwo-Olu further revealed that the cars in his convoy are those he used during his campaign.
“We need to look at our expenditure profile as chief executive of our state and ask ourselves, where can I cut the red tape; what can I do away with so as to increase the revenue of my state or even make available more money for my state?
“What I have done till date is that I have not purchased any single official vehicle for myself, for any of my personal staff or any of my family members from the government purse. If you see me have a convoy of 10 vehicles, these are all vehicles I was using during my campaigns.
“Governor Nasir el-Rufai joined me in one of my cars this morning and I can tell you that vehicle was one of the vehicles I used for my campaign; it is not brand new.
“So, I said to my people that, it is not a fanciful thing that every governor must begin to buy brand new vehicles when you do not need to. So, all of those millions have gone back into the treasury of the state and we are using it to develop the state very well, he said
Please Mr governor just go and have seat
You can’t deceive the people any longer
No one is a fool, do you hear
Please we want to hear more important things
If this is true, it’s very gud and other governors should copy from you.
More grace
The government should always be prudent in spending because the masses are suffering. It’s good development.
Apart from buying cars, there are so many many ways in getting money. What matter most is prudent in spending.
That is a lie…. He is just decieving himself…
Governor Sanwolu should look for a way to make life better for his citizens instead of making flimsy excuses for himself.
Most of the governors are pretenders, there are many ways in which they are getting money but they won’t disclose that but only for them to be telling us lies.
I would never believe this,but your wife and children are purchasing new cars abi
Who asked you this trash you are saying now
You buy official car o, you no buy official car o, is it the solution to the problem of this Country.
Go and tell that to the ants.
How is that a solution to Nigerian’s problem?
really who do we ask about that if u re telling the truth
May be you are out of your senses, you are trying to insert it inside our head abi? We no go take or accept your lies, this what you said was said by kwara state governor which we later detect it was a big lie. So just keep quiet.