EFCC Must Probe Fashola – PDP

The Lagos State Chapter of the PDP on Sunday called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the activities of the Fashola led Lagos State Government, alleging massive corruption in the administration.

"Recently, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Ikuforiji had disclosed plans by House Committees to begin probe of Ministries in the state. This move we learnt has been vehemently opposed to by Governor Fashola and the leadership of the ACN" he said.

Speaking to Newsmen this Sunday, after a Church Service to mark his birthday, Lagos State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Tunji Shelle alleged that the state was trying to hide the massive misappropriation of public funds by gagging its officials from speaking to the media.

Shelle said that there was need for Lagos state to give statistics on projects it is handling and allow the public to have access to such information to know if its claims were true or false.

"What Fashola, a so called progressive governor had done was to warn his commissioners never to speak to the media on the state projects as well as activities in their ministries" he said.

The PDP Chairman described as hypocrisy, the stand of a state government that pretends to be open yet was the worst dictatorship in democratic setting.