Took a walk yesterday and saw this dispiriting 'project' sign board. It was such a new low for naija's misgovernance that I had to take pictures of it and share with nairalanders. Who will save us from these vultures in office who now think the best they can offer us is the weeding of a privatised cemetery? I live in Yaba and this is the first project notice I have seen in a long time aside the one for the LCDA building being put up at the LCDA office beside Panti police station.

Is Yaba LCDA saying it has nothing more significant than this to announce for 2012? In which universe does the weeding of a cemetery, which you have privatised and in which each grave costs almost N1m, deserve mention much less a signboard? Whatever happened to the couple of hundred million naira you get monthly as federal allocation before we discuss your share of tenement rates, market and motor park dues and the constant filching from okadas and kekes? Do we really need a 3rd layer of government that does absolutely nothing while consuming almost 20% of federal consolidated revenue?

While still ruminating on this disaster on my way to work this morning I heard over the radio that the chairman of the neighbouring Surulere LCDA had announced, nay, was celebrating, the purchase of brand new cars for his councillors! Not new school buildings, clinics, mass transit buses, markets, roads, drainage, low cost housing or anything remotely beneficial to you and I but brand new cars for the councillors to replace what I expect would be other cars they would have received from the same public purse less than four years ago! When do we say Enough! to this whole madness?!?

If you don't blow your trumpet who will

Apparently no labourers employed by YLCDA who can wield a cutlass