Jimi Agbaje has vowed to free the state from the hold of Alphabeta Consulting.
According to Agbaje the consulting firm receives a percentage of every ādimeā Lagos state earns.
The PDP guber candidate said this while on Channels Television on Sunday, December 10, 2018.
According to reports, he said āI could be here all day talking about Free Lagos. Let me start from the basic freedom of information Act, Lagos is still run like a closed shop, like a private company,ā Agbaje told Channels TV on Sunday Politics.
āLagos has refused to domesticate the freedom of information bill, so we donāt know what plays out in Lagos. So we are talking of freedom to have access to exactly how they are running our government.
āIn the last 20 years, Lagos has spent some N7 trillion, and we are asking what have we got for N7 trillion? Are we getting value for money?
āOut of that N7 trillion, there is a private company that takes a percentage of that N7 trillion, and we are asking, for what purpose? There is private company fund collector, Alphabeta or whatever, collects that much.
āWe donāt know the percentage; it could be 10 percent, it could be 8 percent.”
āIt is against standard practice because we donāt see what they are doing and we donāt even know what the percentage is, and I donāt see value for money, so its freedom from that,ā he added.
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