Ambode Has Made An Impact: Sanwoolu Over To You!
Nice thing, Sanwoolu, you hit the ground running, as you made your way to Apapa, yesterday for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation in that neighborhood. It has gone from national to a continental shame. I suggest you visit Badagry by road (from Mike-2), next week and see the embarrassment that was once a beautiful 40 minute drive from Mile-2 to Badagry Beach (it used to be my family’s Easter celebrations joint - in the days of yore!) and a gateway to Benin Republic. We hope you will be able to return the places (Apapa and Lagos-Badagry Road) to their former glories.
Whatever we say of your predecessor, we can never call him useless. What with the improvement he made on the traffic situation around Ajah, Lekki 2nd round about, The flyovers at Festac Third gate, Abule Egba, Ajah etc? His ingenuity at fixing the chaos at Berger bus-stop on the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan express road is worth noting. What of the exchange he developed at Oshodi and the new Murtala Mohammed Airport road he worked on till his last minute in office? The fellow has made his mark.
However, a hard look at the list above shows he also had a penchant for some white elephant projects. What economic value will Oshodi exchange offer Lagos that made him accord it a priority over completing the Lagos-Badagry Railway that his predecessor, Fashola, started?Tinubu, Fashola’s fore runner, started the BRT track to physic mass transit in Lagos. He did not complete it but Fashola did, to the delight of Lagosians. One wonders how Lagosians would have reacted to the algebra that got Ambode out of Alausa, if he had concluded the railway that Fashola started; if he completed his predecessor’s unfinished housing projects etc. He, in all likelihood would have defeated, as a people’s man, those who said he was not a good party man. All that is now recent history!
Now that you are in Alausa, please demonstrate progressive thinking by concluding the projects of both Fashola and Ambode, for goodness sake, starting with the railway linking Lagos to Badagry. Do not add to the stock of unfinished projects in Lagos.
The abandoned projects in Lagos are as plentiful as the unkempt beard of a lunatic!So roll up your sleeves and go to work. It will take God’s grace for you to finish them before 2023 but if you could not, let Lagosians see you concentrated on them.
The development of cities should not be dragged into the murky waters of Nigerian politics. Each leader that gets to power should continue where those that predated him left off.
That is why we say that Rome was not built in a day but when they started building it they did not stop.
Wa se re ni oruko nla Jesu!
