During the 7th annual Town Hall Meeting on Security held in Lagos,
Governor Fashola said the two BMW cars bought for Stella Oduah will
purchase 51 patrol vehicles for the
Nigerian Police.
“It is sad to know that the Federal Government that allocate three
patrol vehicles for one state police command of 370, 000 police men, is
unable to resolve how N255 million was used to purchase 2 saloon
vehicles for one officer. It is a very grave irony. The cost of average vehicle needed to patrol the state is just N5
million. And with such fund, we will have put at least 51 patrol
vehicles on the road, patrolling the streets of Lagos.”
"In spite of all this, they resist the idea of a state police. The money
from the fund was in the last one year used to provide vehicles for the
Nigerian Prison Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA,
Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, National Security and Civil Defense
Corps, NSCDC and indeed the airport wing of the Nigerian police, is
funded from this money. And it is the same aviation ministry that manage
the airport that we had this very odious car scandal of N255 million.”
