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Desmond Elliot: The Most Criticized Politician In Lagos?
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For years, Hon. Desmond Elliot has remained one of the most talked-about — and most criticized — politicians in Lagos, Nigeria.
A former Nollywood actor turned politician, Desmond Elliot has served for nearly 12 years as a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Surulere Constituency I. But despite his years in office, public criticism and online backlash around his political impact have continued to follow him.
One question constantly trends online:
“What exactly has Desmond Elliot done in 12 years?”
In this episode of Spills & Thrills, Desmond Elliot sits down with Kanyinsola Olukoya for one of his most open conversations yet.
From politics, loyalty, public perception, backlash, community projects, youth development, and the influence of powerful political structures — to the emotional pressure of public office and why he believes Surulere should trust him with another term — nothing was avoided.
This conversation goes beyond Nigerian politics.
It explores celebrity influence in government, accountability, public trust, perception, leadership, and legacy in modern African politics.
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I still feel that all of these things, God will ask me, Uluadezmond Ade Eliot, on that day of judgment, what did you do to my people when you have it? And it's what I tell politicians everywhere. We all have responsibilities. God gives you a platform is to bless people. If God gives you that platform, it's not for yourself anymore, it's for people to benefit. But at the end of the day, it's such a blessing. And I'm so proud. If I die today, trust me, waiting for day heaven go mad because I know the number of lives. Sister, I've spent 70-something million naira to help someone spine. Eye surgeries, fibro surgeries, and all that. So I'm so blessed to have gotten this opportunity to be able to touch knives. Just do your bit. Your bit is turn up, sign, write the name. I don't know how the modalities will go, but whichever way, root for me, root for me, please, so that I come back. And as a ranking member, I promise you, what used to be two becomes six, not even four. What used to be six becomes eighteen. You know, because those are the benefits of being a ranking member in the in the house.
SPEAKER_01Today I'm having a very important conversation with an actor politician and three-term member of Lagos State House of Assembly representing Surulary Constituency 1, Honourable Desmond Elliott. Now, for close to 12 years, he has represented Surruler Constituency as a lawmaker in the House of Assembly, and now is about to go for another term. But before he does that, so many people don't even understand what his office entails. And that's what I'm hoping to explain right now. Think of government like a school. The governor is the principal. The commissioners are heads of departments. The local government chairmen are like teachers, and the lawmakers are like school prefects. So that's exactly what his office does. So they're not really in charge of roads, schools, hospitals. That's not their job. Their job is to make laws, attract projects, lobby for opportunities for their constituency, bring benefits for their constituencies, and so much more. So that is what his office does. And today we're going to have conversations with him, conversations surrounding loyalty, politics, and of course, now that he's going for another term, you know, online perception. We're going to delve into everything on the show today. My name is Koy Sala Olukoya, the Global Media Girl, and I officially welcome you to the Spills and Thrills Show. It's not even going to start the show. Everybody will laugh. I'm talking about the one and only Honorable Desmond Elliott. Hi, good afternoon, sir. Hi, how are you? I'm very well, thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. You look really sharp and good.
SPEAKER_00In this dress, thank you.
SPEAKER_01I was even going to ask, right? Because I know that all you have you had a switch from entertainment into politics. Yeah. How has that been so far? I mean, you've been doing this for close to 12 years. How has it been mentally, you know, physically, emotionally for you?
SPEAKER_00That this journey from past course is all like they say, we give God the glory for everything. So all glory, all honor, everything ascribed to God. Um, secondly, if I tell you it's been easy, I've been like, it's not been easy. You have to make sure you are with the people, the people understand you. You have to understand people, you have to understand how the things run. The assembly as well, you have to understand how it the way the precepts and the people go. So it's so much that um in all, I just say thank God. But did I think it was going to be, you know, the bed already spread for me to lie on? No, it's not. You don't lie in that bed. You have to create the bed, you have to look for the furniture man to knock it and all that. So, but in all, I've been blessed because through me I believe God has been able to use me to bless lives. And I'm very honored and privileged that I was counted worthy to be amongst those to represent people. Representing people is no small joke, it's totally different from Nollywood, where it's just me, myself, I and Amy. This one is everybody, everybody, everybody. So those are the differences and challenges. Um, resource-wise, I I would I promise you, I don't think I'm any richer when I was here as an actor.
SPEAKER_01Everybody thinks you have money.
SPEAKER_00So, like I said, I'm not I I don't think I'm any richer. So, I'm not, in other words, I don't think I've I've been here to create wealth. No, because you cannot be with the people, and I I don't think you I don't think I think you'll be wicked to be with the people and not think you'll need to help and assist and those things. So, unless the country is better, the people that labor can never be better.
SPEAKER_01Well, you're using that you've been using your personal funds.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yes, you have to, you have to, especially funds that come from films, you know. Um, assembly gives you a platform to lobby things into your people. Um, so you learn how to be a good lobbyist, you learn how to talk to, you learn how to bug people's lives, especially those in government, yes, how to bug their lives, especially when you need things admission, um, employment, facilitate infrastructure and stuff like that. It comes with a whole chunk of lobbying, uh bleeding, yes, trying to say, okay, okay, take, do this for me. You know, so it's difficult, but in it, you're happy. The good thing about it is that the higher you go, yes, the more easier it becomes because people at the executive understand you better. People deserve, they know you better, they know say, ah, to buy on the desbondi, ah, move because I know how to stress people's lives. I'm like a change, bed bug. Yes, for me to get things out, you have to block people, and I'm so glad that I've given I've been given an opportunity. Really, it's an opportunity to which I say to my God, thank you every day. Thank you. Which is the result why, which is the reason why I feel, oh yes, I've been doing this, I know how to do the job, I need to continue. If the people don't want me anymore, let them say it at the polls, you know. But but to say I will run away from the people, that cannot happen. And then, unless I see someone I feel can be better than it, I will keep running till I see someone who and the only way you can know is when you're at the polls. You understand? To say, try me, this is my scorecard. So judge me by my scorecard. I should just say something like me, you don't like me, just love what I'm doing. And that is my own watchword. You may not like me, you may like me, judge me by my work. And those are the things I'd like to share with you if I have that time.
SPEAKER_01Yes, but we have the time because that's all right. We're discussing today. Okay. Your work so far, so good. Okay, great.
SPEAKER_00Yes, so I have this book, it's a compendium of some of my activities, okay, you know, and it's called Surileri and I. Okay. Okay, The Journey So Far. Okay. So um, basically, it's just a compendium of the activities I've been doing. Okay, when it comes to education, there's this bus that picks children and goes for free.
SPEAKER_01Is it I I know that I've seen that bus before. Yes, but I mean I've not really been around, so I've done it.
SPEAKER_00You're an American girl now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, please. So it's been a long time, but is it still functional?
SPEAKER_00No, we just stopped that not too long ago. Oh, okay. Yes, we stopped that not because I had to switch to another program, which is health insurance program for the elderly. And in that one, we we make sure that the elderly people um have access to um this card, and that is for free. So it deals it deals with is an insurance thing, so it deals with um sicknesses and illnesses that have to do with age. Okay, arthritis, okay, high B, you know, those those illnesses, so not malaria, typhoid, because really they don't get those kind of illnesses, so they are real prone illnesses that the the elderly people go through. And we do that, and we will still eat them a lot of money because I had to stop because of these primaries, and trust me, the money keeps accumulating every month. Now, on the on the on the side of education, yes, I make sure that jam, wayek, um GCE, those forms are bought. I mean, I could spend as much as 30 something million to buy forms for these people. Not only do I do that, okay, I also switch to their extra normal classes. They use ideal girls' school, they use um new era for lessons for yes, okay, so that it helps them as well. Sometimes I go to go and teach. The pictures are also here as well. Um, what's the best do you teach them? Everything we are uh Baba goes school now, please. So, in fact, one of the people who is filming one of the live shows right here, okay, his son had the highest jab score 303 in Sullivi. Cutsy the office of Desmondia. That's him over there, smiling. He's a very proud father, yes, very proud father, you know. And these are the kind of testaments I like to hear. Okay, last year we tried to get admission for a lot of them. A huge chunk, huge chunk of people couldn't. I called the meeting with the parents and the students, and I told them, Listen, I've tried very hard to get admissions for your kids, it's not possible. If you have alternative means, try and locate it, whatever the cost is, I'll pay half.
SPEAKER_03Wow.
SPEAKER_00I traveled as well to Abuja, and that's the one that really blessed me a lot. Before the the man wanted, an Igbo man wanted the daughter to go into nursing. Something about nursing related in Luth. There's a school there, and it wasn't possible, and it meant I had to go to Abuja. So I did, went to Abuja, spoke to some of the honorables under the health sector, and I got him, spoke to the health minister as well. And to God be the glory, the child is in school today in Luth. You know, that reminds me, you have to do a video of that too. You know, just to show those kind of testimonies, they make me happy. I'm in the area of sports, and mind you, whenever I do these programs, I do them, you know, to acknowledge my leader, right? On the Ruf Mabdulakim, Rajabi Amila. People always ask me why do you always put his face there? I say, because he's my leader.
SPEAKER_01But do you do you do you think that that has kind of affected you in a way? Let me explain what I mean. Negatively, you mean negatively, because by the time his picture is on projects that you've been you know handling, people tend to think that oh um, it's his project. So here's the reason why they don't see what's the reason why some of us do this, okay, and I'll explain.
SPEAKER_00Okay, you can't have two captains in one boat, okay? And if you want to perform, you have a leader. There's a saying that Ashwaju always says, I should burn a metinum. When I'm telling this first, he says, rule, there are two rules to life. Number one rule your leader is always right. Number two, rule in any situation, paraventure. This is rule number two, paraventure. You find out that your leader is wrong. Always reverse to rule number one.
SPEAKER_01Uh I don't know. I don't think I don't think. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00So objection of a rule. So, so that is that is a rule. So, in other words, you give accolades to him. Now, I'll tell you why it becomes imperative eventually. When your leader, especially a leader who is doing very well, yes, comes to you, has accepted you, what you need to do is do things and also give accordance to him. When you do now, it's not something a normal average Nigerian human being should look at.
SPEAKER_01Okay, should you understand?
SPEAKER_00But that's the grim of that's the game of politics. And then when you do that, the reason is because when there is trouble, the only person you can run to that can help you in that type of trouble is your leader. So you don't even know the people also have a say, but your leader does the I'm moving around, I'll try and make sure it works, blah blah blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_01But you don't you don't agree that it has affected you negatively? Oh, it has.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yes, it has. It has, it has it has its own effects, it has positive effects, it has its negative effects. The positive effect is he will stand up for you when the time comes to say, Okay, okay, okay, this boy, this boy, this boy, you know. But negative is people just feel what has he done? Yes, what has he done? For instance, if you go to Sue Lily today, you look at um, if you compare what you see in Sully today and last month, it was completely dark. Today, Boditomas is fully lit, Eric Mo, fully lit, um Ake Rele, fully lit, Adeni Rogusoya, uh Ogulano Drive, Adelabu, um Western Avenue, they're all fully lit with solar powered um floodlights. And I facilitated all of these things. Now, you say, okay, it's not government that gave you well. That's one of my the reasons why you're in government to lobby things into your local government. Not every local government you go to, you would see things like this. Yes, this solar light thing is spread across um Lagos State, but you will see a huge concentration of that in soon. I keep saying it, it didn't happen by magic. God didn't come down to do it, He sent people to make it happen. Under the bridges, as you're driving this evening, go through under Ojo Electra Bridge under Marshall Bridge. Yes, it's under you will see it fully lit. Now that didn't come from government. I got oh my god, I'll try and get their names. They will be so upset with me. You know, we got them to come, we commissioned it with the police, you know, under Marshall Bridge, under Sheeta Bridge. Now, why do we do this to make sure there's enough security? Some other areas like Games Village, I contribute money for CCTV for them. On that area, they call them Bean B E A M, which involves Eric Manuel, um, where Toki Hospital is off Moduka Johnson. Okay, all those places. I also give them some money to be able to have CCTV cameras there. So the point is being alive to your people, to your responsibilities, making sure that they feel what you do. There's this one, this book I just opened now. You would see prepared meters, yes. In Suleri 10 years ago, in Sulli over 10 years plus ago, over 10 years plus ago, there was no power. Epileptic light situation. And one of my aunties, yeah, yeah, Debola said to me, Yeah, I mean, she said, Chola, if you can make light come to Sully, trust me, your legacy will stay. And I held it this way, and I felt, you know what, she's right. So before now, I would always go to a codie school, I would always make sure. So the government, federal government started with a free skin program called Zero Map.
SPEAKER_03Zero Map.
SPEAKER_00That one happened, I think, a year and a half ago. I tried to make sure a lot of my people assessed that. Then last year, towards the end, to they stopped in February, they did what they call zero math. You know, zero math is where federal government now gives free prepaid meters. Prepaid meters is a single face go for like 145,000. Yes, it's all so instead of paying that, you pay the vendor between seven and twelve thousand. And then after you do that, um I I collated, I collated over two thousand.
SPEAKER_01Oh wow, two thousand.
SPEAKER_00Over two thousand. I first gave them a batch of a thousand five hundred and then we now give them another batch, and then we now did because your old prepaid meters will not was not functioning anymore. So I went for a full ward called patenting in at close to Stadium Hotel, and I made sure the vendor did all the change for them for free. I I absorbed the cost for that. So these are things that make me happy. You can come to my house at any point in time, yes, knock on my door, it's open for you.
SPEAKER_01They say you're accessible, they have your number in cereal. Oh, yes, they should, and you respond fast too.
SPEAKER_00Well, I respond during after 12 to 5 a.m. Okay, because that's when my head is clear, yes, and then I can now start responding to as many. It's it's Herculean, but it's fun to me, it's a pleasure for me, it's an honor for me. So I like it.
SPEAKER_01So I want to ask because there's a picture circulating the internet, you know, about your leader that is right honorable Femis Batabia Mila, and they are saying that, oh, he has thrown his weight behind another opponent, right? And people are saying a lot of things is there is there fire on the mountain, is there a problem? Like, because they know how much you revere him, how much you you know you hold him in high esteem and all of that, and most of the projects, you know, how you make sure that his pictures are always there. Are they because we saw pictures of him and the opponent, so we cannot even say are the rumors true, but from your end, there's everything is all well.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so for me, I'm sure you must have seen another report that says there's one begs, but yes, I saw that one on Twitter. So this is political season, and in political seasons, everything all sorts go go out propaganda a lot. That's not to say, is he is he feeling like this about me? Yes, it could be, it could be. Hey, he's human, I'm human. Could I have heard? It could be, hey, I'm human. So if I I feel that we should always at every point in time have that sense of forgiveness, yes. If Ashuwaju, I'm sorry, see, I've called Ashuwaju more than four times because he's a mentor to me, and I feel he's also largely misconstrued. But hey, it's a debate for another day, okay. Um, with due respect to Uncle Uncle Musliu, you understand? At one point, they were like this for whatever reason. But this is a man that has embraced everybody, including his enemies, because he knows there's no time for everybody to hold grudges or hold whatever it is. Now, I cannot categorically tell you my leader is extremely happy about me or is extremely sad about me. So that is left to my leader to tell. But what I do know is I'll always continue to remain loyal to him, I always continue to love him for who he is. He's a change maker, he's an amazing person, and for that I respect. For that, I respect. Even embracing me alone by Jabi Amila, it's not a small name, not in the in the in the in the words of Lagos States, it's not a small name, but so and as I am Omoloabi, you can never, which is one of the laws I want us to do in Lagos States. We must go back to that time where we had respect, where a young person, you know, an elderly person can be wrong and is accusing the wrong person, and that wrong person cannot look at him in the face and say, Ah, you're wrong, I'm good. First and foremost, the way we were taught when we're young, is let the man finish his talk, frustrate and apologize. If he gives you the opportunity to to now, a lot of people will not agree with me on this. It's okay, it's your view. Hey, I'm not, I'm not here to I'm just giving my view. Then when it gives you that permission, explain yourself. There are certain cultures, precepts, norms, and attitudes that must not change as Africans and as Nigerians. That's not to say that these elderly people should come out of that right. No, it is with sense. The reason why we call you an elderly person is because you are treating yourself with sense. Eventually, that elderly person will know he or she is wrong and will definitely call you and say, Okay, my son, my daughter, I'm sorry, eh? Now I discovered that this will happen. Ah, but you should have told me now. That's what they will say. Yes, you should have told me now, that's what they do. But you see, as an omolue, yeah, someone who they've trained, first and foremost, give credence to him. So let's without deviating transformers. Transformers. I do a lot of transformers to defend communities. I make sure roads infrastructure.
SPEAKER_01Yes, about 32 roads. I read that, and I mean I saw it all. Even this, this is CAC.
SPEAKER_00Okay, this is this CAC you go to do in Abuja. Yes, I facilitated over 2,000 of this to my constituents, especially young people you know who want to do business. So they say picture on the line. You see, this is me, and people you can see the CAC when we're distributing them. We do that too. Look at it. Environment. Now, one of the reasons why you do not have a lot of problems in Sully last year is because of cleanup. I make sure, and I don't have to put up everything and say, Oh, this is what Desmond is doing. No, it's our responsibility. You make sure there's constant and consistent the silting of your canals and drainages. I have videos to that effect where you make sure you can see it. I make sure there's environmental cleaning, you know, in areas because they start making it a dump site, you know, where you can where you just dump things anyhow. Yes, you see, it goes on and on. Yes, and these are videos and pictures.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, but it's there's there's so much that you've done from roads to electricity to um even surgeries.
SPEAKER_00I do surgeries for my my constituents, as you can see, you know, surgeries, there's eye. Eye surgery, there's five uh fibroids, whatever it is, as long as there's funding that we can do. Now, why do we do these things? We don't do these things because today we want to come out and show it to people, but sometimes it becomes imperative when you have to now let people know and say, Listen, no.
SPEAKER_01And one of the reasons why you have to let them know is because of there is this narrative going on online about you um and just fixing toilets and that, you know. I and I just want you to like you know shed light on that because people are running with that, it's just like oh, they said it here, so everybody's running with that. Well, what has Desmond Elliott done in this?
SPEAKER_00It's so easy, it's so easy for negative news to sell, it's easy. Oh, Desmond Elliott has just built a big house for elderly. People will just look at it and say and go, oh, but when there's one major scandal on this thing, or he did toilet, oh now the toilet you don't do since he comes inside, it will flow like anything, you know. But it goes far beyond the toilets we did then, I which I didn't do, was just to lobby the Austrian government. They were gonna do a a research on biofuel toilets. Those biofuel toilets are toilets where the waste converts to manure. You understand? Okay, so they built the space like a soak away, and then they mix it with stuff, their own stuff, yes, and then after a while they come to clear it and it becomes manure for plants. Yes, you understand. So that was what we're bringing into the communities, you know, at that time, which is what almost 10 years ago. And they will not let it go, but you know, um, then you know, in the area of sports, I mean, yes, I organize even boxing events, boxing events, I make sure that people come, you know. I encourage in terms of football competitions, which is was named Fair Make Bajabia Miller Football Competition.
SPEAKER_01Oh, but you are the one behind that.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Everything, everything was new 32 schools, from the kids to the jerseys to the footballs, and I worked hand in hand with District 4, you know, which is the school that is primarily which has the responsibility of having all the almost 34 schools we have in Sulary. You know, I worked with with them, we do seminars on anti-drugs and everything, everything is in here. And look at what sometimes they win. There's a basketball group again, you know, that we also do for the basketball, you know, just to encourage youngsters. You know, the boxing onto as well are done over three so far, you know, in making sure that people just come network and understand. Not only that, I think kids look at so the Baja football competition ended up becoming Baja FC, Fajar Football uh Club, you know, because we picked the best out of them. Last year they played in the um what's the name of that league? Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich. Yes, the Bayern Munich Junior Wing. They came down to Nigeria, and then it was such an honor for these boys to play with them, you know. So you see, we we do a lot of that football in um so the one I'm also very interested in is sprint. I haven't gotten yet resources to make sure sprint goes. So, like we say, I make sure there's something they call base where youngsters go and go and chill out. I make sure I do bases across Sullery. As you can see, these are houses, not toilets. We go to commission with full DSTV and everything. This is not toilet, it's not toilets where they go, they hang out, they chill. Okay, people are not so particular about bowls, but you see, my community is peculiar because we have a shortage of water, so I make sure that you know almost every community has where they can have access to water as well. Um, one that's very particular to me is two, actually, real quickly, yes, is what we do with our youngsters. Yes, I take them out. You've now seen an honorable that takes constituents out. This is Giwa Gardens. I know some of us know Giwa Gardens. If you've been there, I took them out. We went to Giwa Gardens just to chill. I I don't know, I probably would say I only know maybe 10 children out of this over, we're almost 400 that went to Giwa Gardens. We chatted almost in an area of it's all a convoy. So we did that, they had fun, they had a blast during Christmas. I'm always doing for the Christmas. Yes, you know, Santa Claus, I'm always around. I do during eternal hours when the Muslim brothers and sisters are fasting. Yes, I make sure early mornings I go to different communities. This one I don't record these things because these are things that you give to God to say God, thank you for blessing our lives and keeping us. But sometimes you need to say these things. So we go to okay, like something happened a few days ago. We are fixing a road on Akira Extension Seven. Okay, they didn't allow the workers from public works to take the truck. By the time I went there, they were so upset. Ha! They were also upset with me because the work was slowing down, and I'm like, I'm your brother now. It was the same people complaining that still now said, No, yeah, during it. He drops rice, he gives us money, and then he drives off. He makes sure he comes around to do this. So they I I like such debates. Yes, and then guess what the guy said? He said, I think I was sleeping then, you know. So I I do these things because you can't feel government. We know the country is going through so much. The least any representative, either you're a commissioner, yes, you are an essay, you are an honorable in the state house, honorable in the federal house, you are a senator, you are a council chairman or councillor. The only thing you can do is let the people feel you. Once you let the people feel you, then they are feeling government. They may not get everything they want, which is true. Like I always tell people, it's not possible. But when they feel you, given our circumstance that we are facing today, if my work is go and do law, I mean, go and make laws, and I'm going, hey, Mr. Speaker, come back home. You won't come back again. So you have to start having a creative head, creative mind to say, how can I reach out to people? How can they understand me? So, and those are the things that speak for us eventually.
SPEAKER_01And so now let's talk about the next four years, yes, because now you you want to run again, and um the question that is on most people's lips is oh, why does it want to run again? Because it's been there for close to 12 years. Yes. So I want you to answer them directly. Why do you want to run again? And you know, is aside from being like a member of the Lagos State House of Um Assembly, is there is there a position you're looking forward to, you know, like just yes, no, your your political career. Is there like a position you are aiming for, right? Maybe it's presidency, maybe it's you know, it's if it's not something you want to do.
SPEAKER_00We never finish this checking assembly. So let me start with um the one you started with, which is why my growing is by the way. Before I forget, these are cars. Oh, lab rights, these are cars. Wow, the toilet lovers, these are cars give it to constituents. I'm not gonna put it there if I didn't facilitate this, okay. Um, the other one you see on the other side are widows programs. What we do to widows every six months, I make sure that widows benefit something from my office, and then we swap them. We do two 200 widows every month for six months, yes, and then we swap them. The pictures are there. This lag ride we got for constituents, okay, and then we pay the initial fee, yes, and everything. You know, you have to be paying every month, and then we'll make it easy for them for them so that they when they sell, they keep paying to get their but for students now that you know the the current bus is probably not available right now.
SPEAKER_01You mean for lag ride? No, not for lag ride. I'm talking about the bus because I'm trying to go back to students in secondary school. Yes, is there anything that you're trying to replace?
SPEAKER_00You know, hopefully, hopefully, when I'm back, I'm hoping to get more buses for them for them to just take them from why do you think that other bus thing didn't work? Was it meant to be no no because so resources okay at this point? I said, Okay, the children, okay, let's hold on, let's try and invest more with the elderly people. Because at some point in Sully, I was seeing too many deaths, and some of these deaths from the elderly people, and I felt some of these deaths could have just been handled by simple going to take your BP drugs that they can't afford. And some people are just arthritis, some just need to be massages at different points in time. Big ups to top T in Sully who have made sure that you know we collaborate well. Now you're talking about why the next four years.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yes, okay. But I wanted like the the bosses, like I just want to know, like also what has happened to these buses now, like they didn't properly maintain it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like you provided so maintainer, so it suffered what you call way and tear. So they suffered way and tear, and it was time to replace. So for me to replace, I had to now make a decision whether to continue that scheme or I should move into the elderly scheme.
SPEAKER_01Okay, but for students, I just want to be clear jam, they're just primary and secondary school students, okay. But for primary and secondary school, oh, yes, we still do our jobs, our yes.
SPEAKER_00I encourage them in sports, sports, okay, sports, um, getting their forms for jam, making sure they are and then getting them their tramoral schools where they will attend. If you have other suggestions, I mean I'm open for to anything, but let's move on to why yes, I want to go again, okay, which is why I need Nigerians to understand. Okay, legislature is totally different from executive. Executives' duty is to implement policies. Our job is to make laws and apportion these monies for the executives to use. Once an executive, if for instance I give you from the assembly five naira and you now go to spend seven naira, it is violent. You have you have you have gone against the law. Because if it's five naira to spend at a particular point in time, and then you don't spend, you spend more than that amount. If you want more than that, you come back to the house. It's like saying, Mommy, I want to buy something, mommy gives you five naira. Yes, and then instead you want to go and take mommy's money again, seven naira to go and do mommy. Who gave you permission to take extra two naira? So that's part of our job to be able to watch and make sure they're doing the right thing. When you become a legislator, you don't have that ability and understanding, it takes time to grow with experience. That is why you that's the only uh aspect in law in the in the constitution that allows you to go to as many times as possible because the higher you go, the better it becomes for your constituents. Oh, when things are coming from the executive, all those um you know, small, small, juicy things that come, they consider what they call the ranking members first. It's very easy to understand when you watch CNN and you see people responding to comments on CNN, all these house of reps, which they call congressman or senate. You always find out that the people who respond are caucus leaders. You see that they say caucus leaders, caucus leader, either black caucus leader, green T caucus leader. Those and when you look at them, why don't you why is it that the first timer is not the one commenting? You can't, you have to wait and pay your dues to get to that point where you become a leader, then you can be the one to comment. So you see that it's the caucus leaders that talk when you go to see, you can never see them talk on there. This Somalian lady who won in um um Minap Minneapolis, you know, she wants to go to Congress. Not this one, the last one, I think. Okay, she had a lot of reviews and everything. But when it came to commenting on issues, they didn't go to her, they will go to her leadership. So, leadership is very important, and a lot of Lajes, Lajesse meaning goodies that comes from the executive and other things, first falls in the hand of the ranking members. So, Suruleri, why do you want to go back? Because I want to bring in more goodies into Surulary. Development I've done that was five, I will do it 20 because, as a ranking member, you are able to do more for your people. Go to Agege today and see what Mr. Speaker has done. He has transformed Agege. If I don't call Agege anymore, agaege call it Agege. Agegs because Ageggs don't grow, and that is because of the import of being a ranking member. You understand? So when you're a ranking member, it's way different from when you're a first timer or even a second timer. You're learning the ropes. Now we know the ropes, we know who to meet immediately. We want something. I can pick it and call a commissioner who I knew didn't met me already in office, not me meeting him or her in office. So there's a different kind of respect and acknowledgement you get by being a ranking member. So this is my appeal that we are at that stage. So live, you have invested in me three times is an investment. Yes, that even prompted me, prompted me. I mean, I could have studied two different courses. Yes, I did my master's in business admin, I have my master's in legislative studies, but I decided to go with PhD legislative studies because I needed to learn more, understand more, teach about it, which is one of my dreams, to have the Lagos State, which we are already having to law. Okay, Lagos State Institute of Democratic and Legislative Studies. Oh yes, my my prayer is that next term, giving Sue Larry, giving me the opportunity to come in, I want to make sure that children in schools start coming to that institute to learn legislature, so that by the time they're already in their secondary school, they already know the constitution in their head. They can say, Oh no, daddy, in section this, this, this, this, this. You understand? By the time you are getting to the university, you understand legislature, democracy becomes better. I'm a proponent of mixing Africanness and democracy to make the kind of democracy that suits us. If we follow this, we put democracy, it'll go work, it'll go work. Let me be honest with you, and that's what we've been following suit still. I'll probably round up with that. Yeah, now there's a place called the injection power substation. It's on it's off random. Okay, yes, that is why Sue Leo will always have consistent electricity. That injection power state substation was supposed to give us only what they call 20 MVA. 20, which Echo Disco was supposed to provide. Now, Echo Disco did not even have the land yes back. The present governor was LSDPC MD that's um MG. Now, what now happened? I went to see him. I saw a particular place which Echo Disco and myself had identified, and it was a mechanic workshop, and it belonged to LSDPC. And the governor ceded that land to me in my name. In my name, I now had to pay the mechanics off to leave that place. Okay, I now wrote to Echo Disco, giving that land to Echo Disco where the injection power station is situated today. I is proof every today in black and white. So now I didn't stop there. At that point, my leader on your friend Bajab Miller was speaker. I had an audience with him, and I said, Oh God, this is what Eco Disco is doing. They're giving us 20 MVA. There's another space for another 20 MVA. Quick, quick, like Yoruba, say, let's say Ogami, pay, and then before you know what happened, um Surulere now is blessed with two 20 MVA um um injection substations. They are called transformers, though. Those two transformers. We have 40. To which, if it's skyscrapers, we're gonna get in the future in Surulere, whatever it is, we have enough that can handle such kind of projects and the environment. So that's gonna help Coca Guda. It's gonna help it, yeah, it's gonna help the US mainland, and it's going to help Mushin because those are our neighbors. So these are projects that make me happy. Now, there's something my consultancy office um what what they do at the consultancy office every month. So, and I I have no say in it. I just give them money and they do so. You would see at the end of every month, the manager and the team they compute, they compute everything we spent. So, I'd like you to read it out. Yes, just a few of it, just a few of it.
SPEAKER_01Okay, in the consultancy office alone. So month of July. No, read it first. Okay, cash expenses for the month of July.
SPEAKER_00So this is what people come for for assistance at your consultancy office.
SPEAKER_01Okay, July sum total 39,788,900.
SPEAKER_00Good for the no year you will that's where you go English too big. 39 million seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred, and in August, seven million seven hundred and ten thousand, seven hundred and ten, seven point seven million literally. So I think this increased because I think that was the period of um um Ilia.
SPEAKER_01Okay, because of Ilia period is I think yes, and we have August, we have September. September is 14 million four hundred and ninety-three thousand eight hundred. We have October eight million one hundred and twenty-one thousand seven hundred, November 19,650,989, and um December 33,339,000.
SPEAKER_00Okay, and then January 2026, 15,692,000.
SPEAKER_01And we stopped in February for 18,366,000.
SPEAKER_00The other ones I have on my phone, which is the new one, because so that shows you that this book we did these books in February. In February, or maybe March. That's when we did this, you know. So we try to be as transparent. We also ask them to come to the construction office where you will see the ledger where people sign, where you understand to collect it. I just want to respect people by not publishing the names, their names. But the other ones we've published here are the widows, their names, their numbers.
SPEAKER_01Everything is documented.
SPEAKER_00We document it, we make sure it's documented.
SPEAKER_01Is it available online for people to easily access? Um, the book is the book is okay. Soft copy.
SPEAKER_00Soft copy of the I can also share with you, which you can post online as well, okay, where people can see, you know. But we we try not to put names, yes, because we also protect, we try to protect people. I still feel that all of these things God will ask me, Uluadesmond Ade Elliot, on that day of judgment. What did you do to my people when you have it? And it's what I tell politicians everywhere we all have responsibilities. God gives you a platform, is to bless people. If God gives you that platform, it's not for yourself anymore, it's for people to benefit, and when you either out of people's yes, I feel um that's why I'm telling you, you know, I can walk around Sulele anytime, any day. Because I don't need bodyguards, because if the people can see truism in you, they can relate to who you are, then it's good. Besides, I speak all the languages. So what's concerned me? You understand? Yes. Ah, so yeah, they love you, yeah, Jiki. We greet them. You know, at the end of the day, you connect, you try. So it's not what outside space speaks of you, it's what you know from within. The people who are answerable to me, yes, and I'm answerable too. It's so literary. So, my only the only work I can do is send out the work, yes, it's left for you to make up in your mind how you want to do it. But at the end of the day, it's such a blessing. Yes, and I'm so proud. If I die today, trust me, waiting a day, I'm gonna go mad because I know the number of lives. Sister, I've spent 70-something million naira to help someone spy. Just the lady used to say she used to burn so much, she bent for 18 years, and we did that surgery thanks to Dr. Big Up to Dr. Showbody. So he would have collected 70 million, just took a few, and it was not him, he didn't take the money, it was just some of the doctors and payment for this pre-post treatment and all that, and it took us through a lot of rigor. You understand? So, and because the woman was getting ill out of it, so we needed to do so. Dr. Showbody, well done. Eye surgeries, fibroid surgeries, and all that. So, I'm so blessed to have gotten this opportunity to be able to touch lives, immediate lives. And um, my prayer and hope is come May 21st, Thursday. Please, if you have your membership card for the All Progressive Congress, please come and turn up for me. Okay, just do your beat. Your bit is turn up, sign, write the name. I don't know how the modalities will go, but whichever way, root for me. Root for me, please, so that I come back and as a ranking member, I promise you what used to be two becomes six, not even four. What used to be six becomes eighteen. You know, because those are the benefits of being a ranking member in the in the subset.
SPEAKER_01And what a way to end the show. You so much, Honorable Desmond Elliot, for coming on the show. Thank you. I mean, if you've ever asked at any point in time that what has Honorable Desmond has done in close to 12 years, I really hope this episode answers all of your questions. And if you have questions concerning what he hopes to achieve in four years, I really hope that this episode sheds light on that and that you are able to see the amazing work that he has done so far so good in Surile. And of course, like I said, May 21st, we get to decide who will be representing the All Progressive Congress. And of course, it's counting on you. Thank you so much for coming on the show and well done for 12 years. I wish I brought flowers. We didn't know half of this, we didn't even know one cut out. Yes, right. But thank you so much for sharing. Thank you for you know this.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna leave this with you.
SPEAKER_01Yes, thank you for this book because it shows everything that you've done so far so good. And we just want to say well done, thank you, and we want to say thank you. Thank you, you know, thank you so much for all you've done for Surrey, and we pray that God will bless you. And you know, fingers crossed, if you get in again, we know that Surrealer is in St. Hands again.
SPEAKER_04Thank you guys.
SPEAKER_01All right, thank you so much for coming on the show. My name is Koinsala Ulukoya. Do not forget to hit the subscribe button, like, and follow us on all our social media platforms as Feels and Through Show. Now we'll see you next week, Thursday, as usual. Bye for now.