Emmanuel Thomas
July 3, 2015 – Members of the Federal Task Force on Subsidy Reinvestment Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) today protested the decision of the Lagos State Government to demolish their headquarters at the old Lagos tollgate and in the process obliterating their only source of hope.
They argued that before the demolition, the state government or the Federal Government ought to have called them to a meeting to keep them abreast of the next development and their fate.
They said they that are about 51,000 and have worked for years and that some lost their lives in the process of working for the agency.
They listed those who extorted them as National Coordinator/Commandant of the agency, Alhaji Abdulrasaq Rafiu, PDP chieftain and Empowerment coordinator, Chief Olabode George, Senator Ogunlewe, Federal Task Force Chieftain, Mr. Da- Silva, Deputy National Coordinator of the Federal Task Force, Mrs. Oluremi Adeniji among others.