BOLA AHMED TINUBU, THE LAGOS STATE BLUE LINE (LIGHT RAIL LINE) AND THE WONDERS OF THUNDEROUSLY BAD PUBLIC FUNDS MISMANAGER OR EMBEZZLER.


Fellow Nigerians, let us take a little peep into the personality of the APC Presidential flag bearer in the 2023 Presidential Election - Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Countrymen and women, as the election draws nearer it is our duty to bring the candidates to the people. This is to enable the electorate make informed choices at the polls.

The Lagos State government overseen by Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu engaged in a white elephant project called Lagos Blue Line, which is a light rail project contracted by the Lagos State government to run from Mile 2 to CMS. However they said that the project will run from Okoko to CMS. Though there was nothing like confirming such span of the project as every reality of the project shows that the idea is from Mile 2 to CMS. Even at that, the project was said to cover 27.5 kilometres. 

Lagos State under said that they already paid 1.5 Billion USD for the project. This amounts to approximately 1 Trillion NGN (Naira) as at today with the USD exchanging somewhere slightly above #600 for $1. This project started for over 15 years now. 

Ethiopia started their own railway project 2 years after Lagos State started. Ethiopian project covered the distance of 759 kilometres from Djibouti port to Adis Ababa (that's like Lagos to Kano). And ridiculously the Ethiopian mega rail line project cost just $4.5 Billion. For proper understanding, 759 kilometres is 28 times of 27.5 kilometres yet 27.5 cost ⅓ of 759. The crime has started!

The Ethiopian rail line is a brand new standard guage. This is a heavy rail line that will carry both containers and passengers. But the Lagos State Blue Line is a light rail project which is just to carry only passengers and not containers. 

The Ethiopia standard heavy rail line which started 2 years after Lagos State started theirs cost $5.2 million per kilometer. But the Lagos State light rail project under Bola Ahmed Tinubu cost $54 million per kilometer. This means that Lagos light rail project cost 10 times more than the Ethiopian standard guage heavy rail line per kilometer. It is also important for us to understand what 54 million USD means in Naira. That means that a kilometer of the Lagos State Blue Line (Light Rail) project cost about 33 billion Naira. What a wonder! 

This snippet is the hallowed Lagos State built by Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Friends and Compatriots, that is exactly how the great man Tinubu has been able to build Lagos State.

Now tell me, can you say that Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the incumbent presidential candidate of APC and the Governor General of Lagos State since 1999, is not a wonder of disrepute?

This is just one out of his many escapades with Trillions of Lagos State funds in projects. It is left for Nigerians to choose if they want Nigeria to be built and brazenly raped like Lagos State. It is your choice! 

Comments

  1. Anonymous14 July 2022 at 21:43

    On this issue of s few kilometres light rail in Lagos ,the problem I have with my brothers and sisters of the Yoruba nation is that majority of them over rate their leaders . A little or mean achievement excites them . This excitement has almost always misled their leaders into believing they are doing very well.
    Recall the modest things Chief Awolowo of the blessed memory achieved in the then Western Region that were blown out of proportion by the Yorubas without considering the fact that the Northern Region that started late in every aspect of human endeavors came very close in meeting up with the Western Region in all areas - education industrial development etc, under the able leadership of Sir Ahmadu Bello. This was the very Region the Western Region gave over 100 years head start in all aspect of life .
    In which case, it is instructive to note that a grand son of a Yoruba man; Safari William for instance , had started practising law in Britain in 1881 before any body in the North could go to school .
    Again, the achievements of Western Region were so exaggerated that the Yorubas feigned ignorance of the massive developments going on in the then Eastern Region under the leadership of Dr. Azikiwe/M..I . Okpara, to the extent that before 1966, the Eastern Region economy was regarded as one of the fastest growing economy in the world then . While the Western Region was carried away by the cocoa house in Ibadan and first TV station in Africa ,!the Eastern Region had established big cities like Port Harcourt , Onitsha, Nnewi, Enugu, Unuahia and Aba with attendant industrial out fits such as Obudu cattle ranch, Trans- Amadi industrial lay-out , breweries , glass production and textile etc. Established edifices were in place in the Region such as Hotel the Presidential and Presidential Hotel in Enugu and Port Harcourt respectively.

    .The essence of this comment is to remind the Yorubas that they should stop over rating their leaders little achievements as being done today with regard to Tinumbu who has contributed very little to the development of Lagos . He has taken too much from Lagos and should rather be asked to account than being praised to high heaven of his imaginary achievements in Lagos .
    Imagine a situation where one/10th of monies accruing to Lagos is used to develop Lagos, Dubai where every one wants to visits would be a village in comparison with Lagos .
    For those of us living in Lagos , we do ask a simply question; what actually are new in Lagos aside from Gowon’s flyovers of yesterday years and Babagida’s 3rd main land bridge . Lagos is being ripped off and Lagosians watch akimbo as if they are bewitched by evil spirit . This is tragic and very unfortunate!!!

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    1. KEMKA S. IBEJI20 July 2022 at 18:37

      You have a great point. I wish they're able to read your views here to amend their thought patterns.

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    2. KEMKA S. IBEJI20 July 2022 at 18:39

      You have made very important point here that is worthy of everyone's reading. I only wish that those who need this can read it. Lagos State government has been over hyped for nothing. They have mismanaged their people who unfortunately are clapping for them.

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  2. Anonymous12 June 2023 at 06:54

    I thought this same Lagos was the former Federal Capital Of Nigeria from 1914 to 1991 or there about?

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