Is Lagos house of assembly broke?

This seems not to be the best of times for the management and staffers of the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Investigations revealed there is paucity of fund in the House, which prides itself as the most vibrant in the country.
There are fears in some quarters that the N600 million monthly allocation of the House may have been reduced drastically by the state government.
Impeccable sources revealed that unlike in the past, money has become a scarce commodity in the House leading to the introduction of austerity measures by the Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji-led management of the House.
A source insisted that the ugly development started shortly after Ikuforiji was accused of money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last year, which invaded the House and subsequently charged the Speaker to a court of law.



It is a common practice these days, a source offered, for the House to owe contract money and deny members and staffers some of their allowances.
In the good old days, yemojanews.com learnt, cash was used to pay staffers’ allowances and for training programmes, while some contract money were also paid in cash. Lawmakers too had access to cash and the cash office in the assembly complex used to be a beehive of activities.
“We are not enjoying that again, money is now scarce in the House, it seems better days are no longer here. Even lawmakers are complaining and contractors of the House of Assembly are seriously lamenting. The staffers are complaining bitterly too,” a staffer of the Assembly, who begged for anonymity, told us.