Lagos residents are reeling in shock following revelations that the Lagos State House of Assembly has allocated a jaw-dropping N4.5 billion in the 2025 budget to buy forty 50KVA generators.
The budget document, seen by our correspondent, spells it out in black and white: “Purchase and installation of forty 50 KVA Generators.”
What has stunned observers is that the number of generators, forty, is exactly the same as the number of lawmakers in the Assembly. This raises a disturbing question: are taxpayers funding a personal generator for each legislator, at an outrageous price of N90.7 million apiece?
“This is nothing short of daylight robbery,” fumed a civic advocate who described the allocation as “a shameless plunder of public resources under the guise of governance.”
The development comes at a time when Lagos schools are overcrowded, hospitals are struggling with inadequate equipment, and thousands of households can barely afford food and transportation. Critics say the move is an insult to residents battling economic hardship while their leaders lavish billions on luxury provisions.
Civil society organisations are already demanding answers. “Lagosians deserve accountability, not extravagance,” said one policy analyst. “What exactly does the Assembly need forty generators for when the complex itself already runs on central power systems?”
Neither the Assembly leadership nor the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget has offered any justification for this controversial expenditure.
As outrage mounts, the discovery threatens to ignite a full-blown scandal over legislative spending in Africa’s commercial capital, where citizens are now asking: who really benefits from the Lagos budget — the people, or the politicians?
