IS LAGOS TRULY Working?

Please consider these and answer the following questions without being emotional and Sentimental.

How good are the roads to your house, office and general movement in Lagos? Are they better? Can they be better?

How equipped are our hospitals and health centers? Are they accessible and affordable?

Do you have public and clean water to drink in your houses?

Are you happy and comfortable with the menace and the nuisance of the Area boys in Lagos?

Are our environment cleaner?

Is this the Lagos of your dream?

Do you know that Lagos has only been governed by one party for the past year or almost 20 years?

If you do the same thing the same way for about 20 years, you will get the same result.

Do you know that it took Jakande about 4 years to build all the Estates we called Jakande estates all over Lagos? His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

His government built the Lagos State Television

His government built the Lagos Radio

His government built Lagos State University

His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

His government established LASACO Insurance.

His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

All these were done when we do not have oil allocation from Abuja.

Have they recorded up to one quarter of the above achievements in about 20 years of their ruling?
You won't know what is best until you try and compare with another.

Lagos can be better.

I'm in Lagos and can categorically say Lagos is not working!

If lagos is nit working from your own view? Then you can go back to your village where things are working.
Why staying where things are not working.

aremuforlife:
If lagos is nit working from your own view? Then you can go back to your village where things are working.
Why staying where things are not working.

No need to get defensive dude, it’s just about being honest.

These politicians want to use tribal war to stay in power, I hope you can see that!

Someone brought up Abia, but remember how they same abians insulted Orji daily.

We have to fight all these politicians

Only a blind man will agree that Lagos is working.

Lagos is geographically positioned to be one of d biggest cities in Africa but, is just a shame

That the faith of a city with enormous potential is in d pocket of drug addict.

Very soon every growing Child in Lagos we either aspire to b Agbero or OPC.

Since it has become d most lucrative career in SW.

Very shameful.

Not Working But Still the Best In The Country...
It can only get better...

Agreed Lagos is not working.. No good roads, pot holes everywhere, no water, dirt everywhere for a city that suppose to be competing twith the likes of Dubai, Johannesburg, Cairo, Rabat etc..... However we can't let other tribes dictate for us