A new document on the Lagos Public Procurement Agency (LPPA) website shows that N2,017,840 was awarded for the supply of rechargeable fans and fridge in the office of the deputy governor.
This is contrary to the N2,017,840,000 quoted by Funsho Doherty, governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Congress (ADC), in Lagos.
In an open letter to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, post vis X on Saturday, Doherty called attention to projects funded with taxpayers’ money.
Doherty said he analysed the register of public procurement awards by LPPA for the second and third quarters of 2023.
According to the ADC candidate, the awards reviewed were from April to September 2023.
In the letter, Doherty listed some projects awarded by the state government that ‘require greater scrutiny’.
He cited that N2,017,840,000 was awarded for the ‘provision of supply items (rechargeable fans, rechargeable lights, and fridge) in the office of the deputy governor.”
Doherty also added that the office of deputy governor was awarded N30,000,000 for ‘monthly outreach of indigent citizens by wife of the deputy governor”.
According to the chartered account, another N30,000,000 was awarded for the monthly empowerment programmes of the wife of the deputy governor.
The open letter elicited criticism as Nigerians asked the state government to address the issues.
However, a downloaded the PDF document for the month of July awards on the LPPA website, it was observed that N2,017,840 was earmarked as an award for the supply of rechargeable fans, lights and fridge.
Our checked the properties of the PDF document, and found out that the document was created on November 18 2023 at 7:25pm
However, Doherty made his X post on November 18, 2023 at 4:22pm.
This indicates that the document could have been edited and re-uploaded on the website to reflect N2,017,840, contrary to the figure posted by Doherty.
N2m was approved – not N2bn’
In a letter dated November 20 and address to the director general of LPPA, the office of the deputy governor or Lagos said the figures quoted earlier on the website was different from what was awarded to the office.
The office asked the director-general of the LPPA to clarify the ‘untrue and unfounded’ information.
The letter, which was signed by Tola Ekemode, director of finance and accounts in the deputy governor’s office, was obtained by Premium Times.
In the letter, the office said t he sum of N2,017,840 was awarded for the supply of rechargeable fans and not N2,170,840,000 as reported on the LPPA website and referenced by Doherty.
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