Money Is Meant To Be Spent – Lagos State Speaker Mudashiru Obasa Says Amidst Fraud Allegations

Lagos State Speaker House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa reacts to the allegations of fraud levied against him which has incited mixed reactions amongst Lagosians. Mudashiru Obasa

One of the numerous allegations against Obasa was of him giving his mistress N34m to organise media and CSO parley, he is also accused of having 64 bank accounts linked to him, another of the exorbitant allegations against him was that he used N258m to print invitation Cards for the State Assembly inauguration, taking N80m as estacode for a 5-day event, paying N13.7m for small chops,  water, juice and soft drinks among other things.

The Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly reacted to the allegations in an Instagram live session with media mogul Dele Momodu, Obasa who denied any wrongdoing in his interview though he pointed out that money is meant to be spent, he insisted that he cannot be linked to misappropriation of any sort all during his time as a Government official, appointed or elected because there was provision for all he spent in the budget.

Obasa pointed out that the purpose of money is for it to be spent, but he, however, denied spending the huge amount he was accused of on the events it was meant for. He also disclosed that some of the expenditure captured in the budget has been in existence before his emergence as speaker of the state house of assembly.

The speaker also alleged that there are people in the parliament who “steal documents with an aim of achieving what is not achievable”.

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