MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO LAGOS — GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, faulted statement credited to  the Lagos chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on the State Security Trust Fund, LSSTF, saying, “they are getting closer to dance naked in the public.”

This came barely four days after the party urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe the funding of LSSTF over alleged increase in the cases of armed robbery attacks in the state.

Fashola, who spoke at the 6thannual Lagos State Taxation Stakeholders’ conference in Ikeja, said, “I have news for them; they should make my day because we will meet them in court.

“I heard that PDP wants to sue the Lagos State government to stop the LSSTF from functioning. An outfit set up on voluntary donations, to help discharge the obligation which their party, which controls the entire resources of the country, has to the police which they have failed to discharge.

“The welfare and the provision of other basic equipments to the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, is the responsibility of the party at the centre.”

Fashola lamented that the “PDP at the centre budgets huge amount yearly for security but policemen in the country cannot buy uniforms.

“They do not have vehicles for patrol. They do not have fuel to power existing vehicles.

“But a government sat down here, created innovative ideas on how to fund the police in its state, a problem that is not his responsibility.”