Emmanuel lkpeama
The Executive Chairman of Somolu Local Government Hon Abdul hammed Salawu (Dullar) , has promised to ensure that all the projects his administration started would be completed before the end of his administration next year
He made this assertion at the year 2025 Budget retreat, stating that he is not going to hand over any abandoned project to his Successor.
He went further to say that it is a deliberate policy of his administration that if projects are going on in any community,the people should be rest assured that all of them would be factored into the 2025 Budget for consideration and implementation.
Speaking further he said, the ultra- modern Council Secretariat must be commissioned in the early next year so that the community of workers in Somolu LG can interact freely as of old.
While highlighting some of the projects he has embarked up on which were in Conformity with the Lagos state THEMES PLUS agenda of the Governor,he pointed out that more projects would be carried out in the coming year
Lending their voices,the Council Manager Mr .Abiodun Babington charged the Revenue Collected to apply the ideas they gained from the Various trainings they have been exposed to to improve on the Internally Generated Revenue of the Local Government in the coming year .
The Council Treasurer Mr. Abayomi Odusanya appealed to the residents to pay their rates and levies so that the executive Chairman will have enough funds to complete the on- going projects and start other critical ones before the end of his administration.
On his part,the Head of Budget, Planning and Statistics Mr Femi Giwa opined that the budget office has carried out a water tight data of all the receivables in Somolu LG, stressing that it would be impossible for rate Players to escape or short change the government of Somolu LG.
Investigator news gathered that the facilitator at the Budget retreat Mr Ismail Ogunbanbi emphasized the importance of Budget retreat as veritable tools for monitoring and evaluating performance index of any serious government.
He said, whenever you spend outside the Budgetary provision, you have run foul of the rules, every expenditure must be captured in the Budget, that is the reason why the Retreat is very crucial and essential”.
