Lagos State Assembly Photo credit: LSHA
By Victory Oghene
The permanent legislative quarters of the Lagos State House of Assembly is expected to gulp the sum of N20 billion for the construction of fencing and drainage channels.
This is contained in the Lagos State budget for the 2026 fiscal year.
As Captured in the budget, a sum of N20billion is earmarked for the construction of fencing, drainage channels and and the covering of gutters within the legislative quarters.
The budget description reads: “Construction of new fence and drainage channels at the Permanent Legislative Quarters, covering of gutters 20,000,000,000.00 (N20 billion),” with N500 million already spent between January and March 2026, representing expenditure recorded during the first quarter of the year.
The allocation ranks among the major infrastructure projects captured in the House of Assembly’s budget and exceeds several other capital projects planned by the legislature for the year.
Sahara Reporters reports that further review of the budget showed that the Lagos State House of Assembly plans to spend N16billion on “MDA executed commuity based Capital Infrastructural Intervention,” an amount that is N4billion less than the approved expenditure for the fencing and drainage project at the legislative quarters.
The budget also provides N800 million for the “Installation of E-Parliament & Management Software to address the internet facility and some computerization.”
Efforts by NATIONAL WAVES to make Eromosele Ebhomele, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa respond to enquiries regarding the development proved abortive as at the time if filling this report
