ba7man: There is no other State in Nigeria developing as fast as Lagos right now. Its sad, it hurts me when i see people displaced but logically, I have come to terms with it that its the price that must be paid for that development.

A couple of people will bear the brunt of it but 10yrs down the line, more will benefit from it. Imagine the Facility managing companies that will provide employment to service these estates.

The whole of Nigeria can't be left looking like one great big ghetto. We want our environment to improve without paying the price.

Fashola relocating them all is another issue, their population runs into the millions. Providing housing for that number, would it be free?? Can the State even afford it?? Money should be specially allocated for this purpose from the FG if Fashola's to include housing one of the largest number of slum dwellers in the World in his responsibilities.

anonimi:

Did you see my earlier post about the Onile Gogoro low cost housing
If Fashola is SERIOUS about delivering to the greater number of people who voted him as their 1st public SERVANT he should know what to do. There are so many cities in this world where people have been relocated from slums to other estates in very innovative win-win schemes not the THOUGHTLESS arrangement of Mr. Fashola here.

ba7man: Good intentions....but are they possible at the moment?? At who's expense will those houses be built?? At what cost?? Are you aware that Lagos State India and Brazil have some of the worst housing situations in the World??

That allocation you're talking about can't do squat.....It can't even run the State and that's why he's resorted to taxation......Which brought it up to par with Akwa-Ibom, a state that has approx 5million people. Is that fair??

The responsibility of providing housing for them is beyond him for now, what he's doin is building Middle class apartments to provide for the growing middle class and sucking up money in the process to further run the State.

The State needs money to be run and continue its growth and that money won't come from building houses for the poor. You need like a special grant to achieve that purpose.

ba_aliyah: Nigerians never wanted to make sacrifice even when we know the right thing. When El Rufai demolished shanties, illegal structures and attachment in Abuja, we cried. People who never visited the city before demolition are the ones crying now. Badia and other shanties should be demolished all at once to pave way for the deserved development.It happens everywhere, why should ours be different.I will rather live in a room apartment in my village with rest of mind rather than in ghetto in the name of been a Lagosian.

deeptesting: Hahahahaha what a funny and lame response from LASG...Now the question is if you have not rendered these people homeless and jobless where are they going to live while going about their daily activity that will put food down on the table for their families before the construction of better roads, health care center etc . After turning this slums to mega rich estate is it this same slum dwellers that will have access to the facilities you have mentioned? Fashola should visit Lateef Jakande to borrow a leaf from him on how to build government houses for the poor and not government houses for the rich....Your policies are Anti-poor period.

bashy_demy: So you want Fashola to build an estate and sell them for 1million naira per flat? even if its for 1million naira how many people will be able to afford the. My brother Lagos isn't for everybody so if you can't cope with the standard the Government want in lagos, you can go back to your village abi.

naija_swag:

They said he is the most admired governor, they all believed.
With a single action, he pulled the rug off his feet to reveal the dirt hidden in the rug.
He is being heckled from all sides. Not only his countrymen but the international community have reminded him of what a Holy Man said some 2000 years ago that "you will always have the poor among you"
He did it to himself, it was not an anti-party gang up. The spiral effect of his singular action has destroyed some people's political ambition somewhere in the SE. He cannot even venture that zone because he will be deported on arrival, maybe he will never campaign there when he hopes to run for presidency.
He forgot the fundamentals of being a public figure.
The over 90% of poor people in this country now regard him as their enemy because he will not fail to displace them if he has his way in other to build mega cities.
If he becomes president, he will banish everyone who does not have a job, everyone who is poor to the countryside so he could build mega cities.
In Fact he hates national integration.

anonimi:

Fashola does not have to sell any estate for "1million naira per flat".
He does not even have to leave the Surulere area of Lagos where he grew up to find out how it was done for those relocated to Onile Gogoro estate right there on Alhaji Masha Road.
But I guess that is not the priority of the "progressive" governor. Or is it

bashy_demy: So what your argurment now? should fashola leave those slums areas undeveloped cos of the poor people living there.

anonimi:

I guess I have to spell it out for you.
He should not leave the slums as they are/were.
He can destroy/demolish them AFTER making alternative living arrangements for the OWNERS of the houses there.
That was what General (ret.d) Mobolaji Johnson did with the Onile Gogoro estate in Surulere.
If Mr. Fashola wants to do the right thing he does not even need to go far for an example.
Get it

BTW, I like your signature. Very appropriate advice for the DEPENDENT babes.

django1:

And then some more slums emerges and he'll have to do another "onile gogoro" for them. Hmmm.

You'll make a disastrous administrator.

anonimi:

I guess I have to spell it out for you.
He should not leave the slums as they are/were.
He can destroy/demolish them AFTER making alternative living arrangements for the OWNERS of the houses there.
That was what General (ret.d) Mobolaji Johnson did with the Onile Gogoro estate in Surulere.
If Mr. Fashola wants to do the right thing he does not even need to go far for an example.
Get it

BTW, I like your signature. Very appropriate advice for the DEPENDENT babes.

anonimi:

Disastrous administrator like those in the UK and USA where they have successfully done such
And numerous Nigerians are flocking there claiming they are in diaspora?

django1:

You can't be serious. Bawo ni eyan se ma'n roonu bi ti e na?

How can you compare a poverty ravaged country like Nigeria to UK or US? Who are those creating slums in those countries if not black africans?

If fashola should give free accomodation to any slum dweller he should then be ready to host all of Nigeria in lagos.

You are all about criticism but most often than not its just borne out of hatred, no one is fooled of your evil intent guy, quite the charade.

anonimi:

Please point out to where I said FREE accommodation should be provided by Fashola.
I am waiting.

deeptesting:

At least the president of Nigeria did not go about demolition the abode of the poor and as far as I know Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, he would take adequate step to ensure he does not impoverished the people more than he found them that is what government is all about and democracy.....It is the government of the people, by the people and for the people and not for the rich.

deeptesting:

Dude there is so much to learn from it, first it provided accommodation for low-income earners most especially civil servants for over 30 years....Most who got these houses have since sold them, retired and relocated to their home state to build more descent two,three rooms and 2 bedroom flats for those who are buoyant. Who are the owners of the present government buildings? How many people are aware of the time of allocation of these buildings after it has been constructed? If you have really gone out there to help these poor ones I doubt you will support the government to throw them out without adequate compensation or temporary relocation irrespective of owns the land....During his campaign for re-election did he put it up to them as part of his manifesto that he will demolish their houses without adequate compensation or relocation? I am sure he promised them heaven on earth......

pheliciti: To most people commenting, let me ask if you have ever been to Badia? If you have not, then see this picture of Badia. The question is, can you live here? Can you let your relatives live here? Forget whether or not they own the land, could they not have kept sanitary conditions? I was part of a non governmental Community dev. Project trying to give Badia pipe borne water. I discovered that they have pipe borne water and drainages, they blocked the drainages with refuse.
To those of us that say govt should relocate them free of charge, you would be shocked to note that they pay rent to some people, they thus can afford rent in other places away from the city center. Ask how man of these people pay taxes or do we think that voting alone entitles us to all good things of life?

deeptesting:

Dude there is so much to learn from it, first it provided accommodation for low-income earners most especially civil servants for over 30 years....Most who got these houses have since sold them, retired and relocated to their home state to build more descent two,three rooms and 2 bedroom flats for those who are buoyant. Who are the owners of the present government buildings? How many people are aware of the time of allocation of these buildings after it has been constructed? If you have really gone out there to help these poor ones I doubt you will support the government to throw them out without adequate compensation or temporary relocation irrespective of owns the land....During his campaign for re-election did he put it up to them as part of his manifesto that he will demolish their houses without adequate compensation or relocation? I am sure he promised them heaven on earth......

iresearcher: This is my argument.
I have a land somewhere in a city.I leave it unused for some time
You go to the land and erect shanties,slums etc.I come back several years after
and I ask you to leave because I now need my land to do something meaningful then you start
crying blue murder.
The truth be told, provided you did not buy the land and it is not your inheritance, you
do not have any claim to it whatsoever.
It amazes me how some organisations make noise out of nothing. Even outside of the country,
despite the fact that the land is yours or your inheritance, you are still told what and how to build
on it because there is a master plan. If you left your village without penny, what do you expect
in the city,inherit someones land or property?

Please lets use our brains before we make comments abeg.

anonimi:

IF Mr. Fashola can reduce to the barest minimum the stealing of Lagos funds by himself, his godfather and their other political cronies there will be more than enough to provide housing for Lagos residents from whom he derives over 60% of his budgeted revenue.
The same goes for pipe borne water and basic education for all at the primary, vocational and secondary school level.

He can however choose to continue robbing Peter (the masses) to pay Paul (his rich constituents & political jobbers) so long as the mumus in Lagos allow him to do so thus creating more street urchins aka area boys like the almajiris in the north.

His legacy will be constantly reviewed and compared with that of his predecessors!

ba7man: If the Federal Government can reduce the size of their cabinet, cost of Government and money lost due to oil theft, there should be money left to provide subsidized housing for these people.

Why must it be Fashola that should solve this Mega Slum problem created by the Nigerian System over decades on the same allocation Lagos receives.

I developed a proposal for mass housing that slum dwellers can pay for over time but after research, I discovered that it would still end up being a better built slum and it wouldn't be profitable. Its their frame of mind that can turn "Miami-Florida" to a slum so its education they need, not free housing.

Shine u Eye: Fashola hates poor people. All his policies are based on removing poor people from sight. Imagine on a grander scale if this man was to rule Nigeria?

Thank God Fashola will never win presidential election, the injustice is too much to contemplate.

Its okay if he does it to his people, but would Nigerians ever allow such "bourgeois" characters to rule them. Methinks "NO".

ba7man:
I developed a proposal for mass housing that slum dwellers can pay for over time but after research, I discovered that it would still end up being a better built slum and it wouldn't be profitable. Its their frame of mind that can turn "Miami-Florida" to a slum so its education they need, not free housing.

solomon111: Government is no longer "father christmas"?
Really?
These are the same people that complain of the poverty in the country and attribute it to the FG.
Smdh.

solomon111: Government is no longer "father christmas"?
Really?
These are the same people that complain of the poverty in the country and attribute it to the FG.
Smdh.

The same LASG that is throwing away tax payers money under the fraudulent scheme of EKOGas by giving Tinubu's company 20% subsidy on gas cylinders

Bunch of HYPOCRITES in the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN

django1:

how many free houses has the FG giving to destitutes and road side beggers?