Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State
yesterday reacted to President Goodluck Jonathan’s
statement that victory for the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP in the forthcoming elections would free
Lagos residents from oppression, saying “Lagos is
not in bondage.”
Meantime, Fashola stunned a gathering in Lekki axis
of the state when he said he bought his own vault
where he will be buried after his demise four years
ago.
The governor while reacting to the Presidents
statement said “It is an un-presidential statement
made in an act of desperation.”
It will be recalled that Jonathan made the statement
during a meeting with leaders of market women
groups, “Iyalojas”, in Lagos.
According to him, “the question to ask him (Jonathan)
is that if he had come to free residents of Lagos from
bondage and he lived here for five days meeting with
people and distributing money in dollars. That means
he lived in bondage in five days while trying to free
people.
“If he can live here for five days moving with patrol
vehicles that we paid for, let him go and spend five
days in Chibok and he will know what bondage is,” he
added.
On his vault
The governor said death is a necessary end that will
come when it will come, saying there is need for
people to prepare for it.
According to him “we are here to inspect a cemetery ,
we often don’t like to talk about but there is a need
for it because the population continue to expand and
the Lekki Sub- region is growing very fast.
“If you look at it the Ikoyi Cemetry, the Abari and all
of that are more tha a 100 years old and they were
built by colonialists and left behind for us and when
you look at the way they have also managed them ,
many families cannot even visit the vaults where their
loved ones are resting.
“We have this strategic partnership now with private
sector and they are going to deliver a cemetery like
no other. They will manage it and make the cost also
competitive. There will be high, medium and low
density vaults for people who really want to make a
statement at their exit .
“It is the truism of life everyone who comes must go
so as we are building hospitals , roads , schools
imbibing survival strategy we must also plan for the
end .
“This sounds as something people don’t want to
discuss. I have bought my vault . It surprises people.
I paid for it four years ago . As I always tell people if
you come here for life you must plan to go. Those
who don’t want to go should not come.”
ON Court of Arbitration
Fashola said the first West African Court of
Arbitration would be ready next month (March).
He noted that the compelling need to resolve trade
disputes locally rather than travelling abroad
informed the sitting of the center in Lagos.
The governor lamented that the country and other
West African countries “lose a lot of funds to other
countries in terms of arbitration. For instance,
whenever any dispute arise in the country, the
preferred place is either Paris, France or London,
United Kingdom. And there is nothing special there.
“All we need is to create a centre that will have the
necessary reputation. We have the personnels
because some of the best arbitrators in the continent
are Nigerians.
“We already have the international recognition for
this. All that is left is to complete the project. We
have received some arbitration funds also. And the
next three weeks, the building will be ready for
commissioning. We have atleast 11 rooms here.”
“Also, we have the economic for the arbitration
because a lot of construction, developmental and
Public Private Partnership,( PPP) projects are
ongoing. And dispute from there could be resolved
here.
“With this (Lagos Arbitration centre); We would save
a lot of money and create employment,” the governor
added.
Fashola explained that through the initiative the state
government has created a local destination for the
sub-region, saying the court will be the destination
for arbitration for West Africa.

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DILLUSIONA FASHOLA AND HIS PARTY ,they claim to have the highest IGR yet they owe alot, Tinubu Fashola did rehabilitation of lekki epe road for 1 billion per km same type of road akpabio executed with 130 million per Km, no future generations of lagos would pay the debt for that road by toll,they pay taxes yet nothing to show, out of 3 billion owe by all the state lagos owes 1 billion the remaining state combined plus fct owe 2 billion and you say lagos is not in bondage ? TOPIC REPEAT MOD PLS DELETE

If Lagos is in bondage then Nigeria is in hot soup. GEJ should mind his alterances! This kind of statement is unpresidential.

Longlife Lagos! Longlife Nigeria.