The letter was read at the plenary sitting of house on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by the clerk of the house, Ganiyu Abiru
Vanguard reports:
The governor stressed
that the re-ordering would not affect the original 2014 budget size of
N489.69 billion as, “we have discovered that there are still unutilized
provisions by some Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, which may
remain so till year end. Hence we are proposing to move such provisions
to where they are more urgently needed to enable the state government
address pressing needs in the areas identified above and other areas
like security, housing among others.”
The re-ordering,
Fashola noted was proposed from Capital Expenditure Provisions of 10
agencies with a total value of N9.960 billion.
The governor said the
re-ordering was also to urgently address some of the critical
unbudgeted expenditure requests by various MDAs. “We have received
request aggregating to the sum of N79.302billion but will clearly be
unable to accommodate most of these requests this year.”.
After debating the
request, the lawmakers committed it to the House Committee on Economic
Planning and Budget and expected to report back to the House today,
because of the urgency of the issues involved.
Fashola hands over houses to senior citizens
Meanwhile, Governor
Fashola on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, handed over keys of houses under
the Lagos Homes Ownership Mortgage Scheme, Lagos HOMS, to 16 persons,
former occupants of Shogunro Housing Estate, Ogba-Ijaiye, Ikeja, years
after their defective houses were demolished.
The state government
demolished the Shogunro Housing Estate, in 2008 to avoid collapse on its
occupants, after they were relocated to another community.
Fashola who handed
over the keys at the 6th public draw of the Lagos HOMS in Ikeja, said
while other occupants of the estate declined the government plan for the
regeneration of the estate, “this 16 senior citizens kept fate with the
government. The buildings were structurally unsafe and we asked them to
move out. While some refused to leave, this people decided to deal with
us and we promised those who chose to deal with us that they will get
their houses back.”
“After five
successful draw I want to now announce a new dimension to the Lagos home
policy. I want to share with you the regeneration and the compassionate
side of the Lagos HOMS and the inclusion that seems to carry everybody
along. This morning, 16 senior citizens have benefited from 16 homes
part of the Lagos homes in the Shogunro scheme in Ogba. Many of you may
not know the history behind Shogunro housing scheme but it was developed
around 1970 as a result of the reclamation and development going on
around Marina and the people were moved to Ogba, of course
industrialization came, flooding came and the houses that they were
moved to was no longer habitable and in 2009 a building collapsed there
and we asked them to move out there. But some of them refused to leave,
and one by one the building began to fall apart and those who said they
would not leave flee for their life.
“But we have rebuilt
the place and because we promised that if we rebuild it we will give
back the homes to those who promised to deal with us. Most of you are
also aware that the houses there are in some state of disrepair some has
sank and the environment require a makeover.
“But our regeneration
has come into full scheme in our initiative in Isale gangan in helping
to direct our regeneration experience under Lagos Homes. So, today, we
have moved out 30 families in Adeniji Adele out of these families all we
offer opportunity to take back a place when we finish, out of those
families 13 have said that we should pay them off and each has received a
sum of N1.3million, plus N250,000 relocation fund.
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