ABUJA (Sundiata Post) Gov Ambode, you used to be bothered. About traffic log jams, about ever nuisance. Not anymore . Trucks have occupied lagos. And you don’t seem moved.
Mile 2 has been shut down for three days now. Apapa is occupied. The nuisance has spread towards Oshodi and spilled as far as Ikorodu road.
You used to be concerned. We had thought you will sort it out. But it appears you have abandoned us to the menace. Your LASTMA officials just fold their hands and watch. They have joined us in helplessness.
A moment ago a LASTMA official waved and smiled at me. I waved back out of courtesy. People leave banks and join anything these days. Then he approached with an elaborate smile of familiarity. I took down my window . He put his head into the car. He didnt call my name. For a split second I felt I had made a mistake. He could be a robber. I was looking at his name tag but my eyes couldn’t see anything.
But it wasn’t what I was beginning to imagine. He wanted to know if I was in a hurry. I told him I was. He offered to get into my car and pilot me, run against oncoming traffic , and get of the mess. I thanked him with a frown and rejected his offer. He felt humiliated. He left and went back to his perch. To observe and isolate the desperate and prey on them.
Ambode, you disorganized refuse collection. I understood you. You wanted to harmonize it. But you didnt have thought out plans. You left Lagos drowning in refuse a few months ago. I noticed you were not as sensitive as you used to be. You didnt mind Ikoyi littered with refuse.
I have lived many years in Lagos. I have seen trucks in Lagos. But I have never seen trucks take up whole roads in vast portions of the state. I have never seen trucks constitute more nuisance at any other time than now. You have to do something drastic. You can’t surrender the center of excellence to trucks and refuse.
Fashola used to heap the blames on the PDP. How has this degenerated. The vice president once flew around Lagos . And it all seemed a methodical assessment and definitive solution had come at last. How have all that failed to yield anything?
Mr governor have you noticed the influx of crazy okay riders into Lagos. A locust invasion would have been more bearable. You can’t let Lagos degenerate, my governor. You have done relatively well , you cant mess it up now.
You have to take back the state. You have sweep away these maniacal Okada riders. And you have to clean up the spillage of trucks into peoples homes and offices. The refuse mountains are coming down. But what is left is enough to trigger 100 epidemics in a month. You have to come to your people as you used and relieve them of avoidable pain.
Don’t take Lagosians for granted .
Eko O ni Baje oooo