Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State Assembly.
Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, who has a reputation of squandering public funds, has once again approved a luxurious vacation to Spain for members.
We learned that the lawmakers were on their way to meet with Nigerian Ambassador to Spain Demola Seriki.
Apart from the legislators' frivolous trip to Spain, Obasa was also given funds to travel to the Bahamas for a Commonwealth Conference that he never attended, according to a source.
According to top sources, Obasa afterwards travelled to the country on a private visit and met with friends and acquaintances in order to make up for the allowances he received for the conference that he never attended - a journey that had no influence on his job or the state.
“He sanctioned a needless trip by Lagos MPs to see Demola Seriki, the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain. The Lagos Speaker also paid for his own journey to the Commonwealth Conference, but he didn't show up. When he finished paying himself, he headed to the Bahamas.
“He gave his approval to a wasteful trip by Lagos legislators to see Nigerian Ambassador to Spain Demola Seriki. A trip to the Commonwealth Conference was also paid for by the Lagos Speaker, but he did not go. When he was discovered, he paid himself and traveled to the Bahamas. However, it was a private visit, according to one of the sources.
Obasa has a long history of corruption in the Lagos legislature, as well as lavishing state funds on himself and his accomplices.
On October 9, our source revealed how he and six others were able to attend a program in Turkey.
Obasa reportedly persuaded the House to grant the fund in order to permit a travel to the European countries to see the Turkish parliament's metamorphosis.
In a memo seen by SaharaReporters dated July 09, 2018, the Speaker requested that the Assembly release the cash so that he and six others may attend the conference.
It was also revealed that Obasa only took one lawmaker on the trip, the late Hon. Adebayo Osinowo, and pocketed the cash intended for the others.
The Speaker only went to Turkey to buy house furniture, according to a source close to the Assembly, because the Turkish parliament had no record of him or the Lagos House of Assembly visiting the country on any fact-finding mission.
"Despite the fact that Nike's mistress collected N3,612,299 in cash, he traveled with no personal assistant, orderly, or official of grade level 13 and no consultants.
"He just traveled to Turkey to buy furniture, which is illegal, and the Turkish parliament and the Lagos State House of Assembly have no record of him or the Turkish government as a whole."
"The reform of the Turkish parliament was not overlooked by the Lagos State House of Assembly, and it is neither customary nor legal to give travel expenses to any consultant, even when Obasa is the consultant himself."
"In addition to purchasing furniture, he traveled to Turkey to meet with a tile firm about forming a local tile manufacturing collaboration on his newly bought site along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
"All of the estacodes and aircraft tickets for the aides were collected by Obasa without any of them being present on the trip; only the typical lady, Nike, received her assigned money in cash."
"On arrival in Turkey, just one honorable member, late Hon. Osinowo, was startled to learn that no formal meeting or visit to Turkish parliament had taken place, except for private trips to the tile plant by Obasa and his business colleagues," the source stated.
Obasa's financial records revealed that the lawmaker carried out a number of dubious transactions through a number of firms affiliated to him.
Obasa got exactly N51,680,672.91 apiece in his company, De Kingrun Multipurpose Limited account on October 30, 2018, in a string of eleven transactions on the same day, according to bank papers.
Since March, when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission summoned him for interrogation as part of an inquiry into some charges, Sahara Reporters has revealed a number of new corruption allegations against the Speaker.
Mr. Obasa received four transactions from the Lagos Ministry of Environment and the Universal Basic Education Commission in 2016. The four purchases from the environment office totaled N225,330,000, with each transaction costing N56,332,500.00.
SaharaReporters' attempts to contact Obasa were unsuccessful because he did not answer his phone or respond to a text message sent to him.
