Lagos Assembly Speaker, Obasa, Fraudulently Collected N53m For Travel With Mistress To United States

In a different misuse of general public funds and abuse of office environment, Speaker of Lagos State Dwelling of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, gained N53m from the condition coffers to travel with his mistress to the United States of America.

Obasa received the Dwelling to approve the fund to facilitate a journey to Georgia, United States, for the 2019 US-Nigeria Trade and Expenditure World wide Summit, which he was billed to show up at with some customers of the Assembly and their personnel.

The function was subsequently postponed but instead than return the fund to the state’s treasury, Obasa diverted the funds for own use as he travelled to the United States with his mistress.

In a doc sighted by SaharaReporters dated October fifteen, 2019, Obasa experienced asked for the Assembly to release the funds so he could show up at the summit alongside with a single of his personnel.

The doc reads partly, “Given the over, kindly seek out acceptance of the Rt. Hon. Speaker for release of the sum of N53,719,405 only to help them to show up at the programme.

“Hon. Speaker, be sure to go through from site 39 of file. You are respectfully invited to consider and approve the release of N53,719,405 to facilitate the attendance of the Hon. Speaker, Hon. customers and a single member of personnel at the Y2019 US – Nigeria Trade and Expenditure World wide Summit scheduled to get location in Atlanta, Georgia, Usa, from 26th – 28th September 2019.”

It was gathered that even though the conference was rescheduled, Obasa travelled to the US with his mistress in location of his legislative personnel.

An official of the Lagos Assembly, who spoke with SaharaReporters, reported the Speaker was constantly in the habit of travelling with his mistress in location of his personnel each time he was leaving the nation for official goal.

“The Speaker and his mistress, who doubles as his protocol and external relations officer in the Assembly, only went to the US soon after collecting N53m for the US-Nigeria Trade and Expenditure World wide Summit.

“No other personnel or member of the Assembly travelled with the Speaker or attended the function,” the resource reported.

Yet another man or woman shut to the Speaker’s workforce also confirmed the lamentation and anger of some of the personnel listed on this acceptance, who could not embark on the journey or received a share of the funds.

They swore to “spill the beans if invited by the Economic and Money Crimes Commission as there ended up no visas on their international passports to protect the trip”.

A single of the Assembly’s personnel hinted that only Folajimi Lai Mohammed travelled to the US at the time Obasa and his mistress jetted out to America.

“It could not be confirmed if he did on the bill of the N53m largess given that names ended up not connected to the requisition to explain to who benefited,” a different resource in the Lagos Assembly privy to the release of the fund, reported.