URGENT CALL BEFORE LAGOS LOST IT
I am very sad today looking back at what started some eight
years ago what we all felt would be the cradle of the transformation into the
new Nigeria we are all clamoring for now deteriorating day after day.
It is conspicuous that the main reason which the 'plant a
tree' programme was suppose to be for is lost time ago. When it all started
everything was looking beautiful with the trees, the lawn at the right position
and some other parks that can make you say Lagos is a mega city but now we lost
it, the trees, grasses and flowers are beginning to constitute nuisance, the
trees are not well maintained, they are not properly train, they lack purpose.
The flowers are nothing to write home about. Taking Oshodi as a case study, you
see grasses on the interlocks at Oshodi heritage park, all the lawn on the road
bisector has been trampled.
It no more news that the then functioning 'emergency or
roadside' hospitals on the highways are fading off due to inadequate or lack of
maintenance, unavailability of personnel, repairing of the shades and probably
the Nigeria politician 'know how', in other words divergence of fund. It is no
gain saying that all this body is being handled by a capable hand because if
they are it won't 't have been the come out.
Then everything seems to be regulated on the primary, secondary
and tertiary road until all of a sudden the whole system looks like it has
collapse. The danfo drivers as they are called don't stop to pick passengers on
the middle of the road, 'a private' car owner drives with caution and makes
sure his car is road worthy before plying
the road and now we seems to be seeing different things.
The LASTMA has been made useless in the eyes of everyone, they
are now seen as a toothless bulldog, they are no more respected you now go from
Osborne road to Golden gate; nothing less than 30mins, you now move from CMS to
Tinubu road about like someone going to Kaduna from Oshodi, it is high time we
get something done.
The last but not the least in the numerous problems facing
Lagos State now is the case of the BRT buses. When it was first introduced we
were all happy cause it's cheap, comfortable, neat as they do the sweeping
after every trip, compare to other public transit in the state. The board of
trustee are always on ground due to regular supervision by the government arm.
What we have now make me feel like the bank of justice is empty whereby some
will take the route which used to be N100 for N150 all in the name of
'unavailable' air conditioning because the government has lost track and has also
lost aims and objective of the creation or is it wise to say they do not want
any form of convenience for the masses?
The change we want is the
change from the bad and worst situation to the better not the change from the
good to the bad that we will all say a LOUD NO.
By this I will like to go by the word of Matin Luther King
JNR "there will be neither rest nor tranquility in Lagos and Nigeria as a
whole until it's people are granted the original citizen's right. The
whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundation of our nation until
the bright day of justice emerge.
I believe: NIGERIA SHALL BE GREAT AGAIN!
GOD BLESS
NIGERIA.
GOD BLESS YOU.
Written by: OSINAIKE Damilola
08133754780
oshinaikedamilola@yahoo.com
Edited by: SOSANWO Toluwalope
08134250705
toluwalopesosanwo@yahoo.com
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