Notable Quotes from Fashola’s Engaging #MinisterialScreening

The immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, took center stage at the ongoing ministerial screening of the ministerial nominee by the Senate.

Fashola’s engaging with the Senators was the first of the day for the Ministerial nominee screening.

The sound of a pin couldn’t be heard at the upper chamber of the National Assembly as Fashola schooled the distinguished members of the red Chamber.

With evident dexterity and a deep grasp of issues, Fashola answered every question asked of him and carefully side-stepped a few sensitive queries.

We put together a few quotes from his session below;
1. ‘Our Work in Lagos was a Team Effort, I won’t appropriate personal responsibility for the Good Work’.

2. ‘As governor I felt responsible for every citizen that was robbed. Every citizen that was robbed, I had failed. That’s how I felt’.

3. ‘Before we increase taxes, we must optimize the capacity to get that which is in the place.’

4. ‘Competition stimulates productivity. There is no state that is unable to carry out productive activity’.

5. ‘If we are afraid of abuse, start the state police. Not every state should start if it can’t be funded’.

6. ‘The only training I have is that of a lawyer. I don’t fix contract prices, I don’t sign cheques, non of my commissioners signs cheques. We have a process that was followed.’

7. ‘In my own right as a 52 years man, I am old, but we must continue to interface with and guide the youths’.

8. ‘Nobody has alleged that I have corruptly enriched myself. The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.’

9. ‘In a Federation, the right to free movement is not an absolute right because there are individuals who tend to be a nuisance.’

10. ‘Our infrastructure is behind, and if we don’t invest money in infrastructure, we can’t move forward. We can’t borrow to pay salaries or fuel generators, we must borrow to pay for our Infrastructures.’