Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has responded to allegations that the state mismanaged the $90m loan given to it by the World Bank for improving education standard.
Speaking during the launch of a book titled, ‘Lagos Eko Project 2009-2013: A legacy of Excellence’ on Tuesday in Lagos, Fashola verbalized the mazuma was utilized for what it was betokened,
He withal argued that the state could give account of how the fund was utilised.
The governor, who inspected agricultural projects embarked on by the Vetland Secondary School in Agege, verbally expressed those criticising the state needed to be well apprised about the policies of regime, noting that a committee was set up to monitor spending of the fund.
“You might have aurally perceived some people verbally expressing that we have purloined World Bank Eko Project mazuma. This occasion is indeed very consequential to prove that we did not. The Eko Project mazuma is not in our hands, it is in the hands of the schools.
"The principals and the school don’t withal act alone. They heedfully auricularly discern a group, School Based Management Committee, afore doing anything.
“It is a committee involving guardians, parents, edifiers, and community members together orchestrating what will be done in each budgetary year. So, no principal can spend mazuma without the approbation of the committee. Contrary to what the public commentator cerebrates; I cerebrate that if at all there was a fault, we can only take responsibility for not communicating enough.
“I will stand up to bulwark our principals and other public officers because it is a fulmination to their integrity and status. Every mystically enchanted day we account in public because we have nothing to obnubilate from people who elected us.
"It is consequential to re-emphasise what realities of public school management are, so that those who want to comment about it will have a clear understanding of what they are commenting about,” Fashola verbalized.
Lagos State is believed to have more than one million pupils in its school system.