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Old soja

This was when Nigeria had a sane military having just come out from the colonialist's cacoon.

Niger been get sense before, but today everything don yamutu.

FrLukas:


Sane military? What's the business of the military with governance of a nation?

Nigeria has never had a sane military, even till now.

daddytime:
Old soja

This was when Nigeria had a sane military having just come out from the colonialist's cacoon.

Niger been get sense before, but today everything don yamutu.

naptu2:
It's a quote from a post that I made on November 5th, 2014. Ambode could not have been listed because the 2015 elections had not even been held.

Click on my name in that quote to see the full (much longer) post.

9jaRealist:


Good post, but abegi Mobolaji Johnson (although an achiever) cannot take credit for Eko Bridge, TMB or the ring roads...
Lagos was then the federal capital, and another great Lagosian Femi Okunnu takes primary credit as Fed Works Commissioner.
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FrLukas:
Sane military? What's the business of the military with governance of a nation?

Nigeria has never had a sane military, even till now.

9jaRealist:


Good post, but abegi Mobolaji Johnson (although an achiever) cannot take credit for Eko Bridge, TMB or the ring roads...
Lagos was then the federal capital, and another great Lagosian Femi Okunnu takes primary credit as Fed Works Commissioner.
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What were the projects you planned to execute during your tenure but for reasons of time and financial constraints, you could not?

I wasn’t happy with the transportation system in Lagos, and I particularly felt bad about the waterways that we could not fully exploit. I sent a delegation abroad to look for flat bottom boats that could take passengers across the waterways. I wasn’t happy with the transportation system and would have loved to see a better system in place. One of the ideas I had was to construct the 3rd Mainland Bridge. Don’t forget, the 3rd Mainland Bridge was a creation of the government of Lagos State and not the Federal Government. The Federal Government only took it over at a point in time when we didn’t have enough money and, therefore, included the project as part of the state’s contribution to second Five-Year Development Programme of the Federal Government in 1972. I went abroad and was surprised to discover that the headquarters of Julius Berger was located in the same area with the hospital where I went for medical treatment. I met Mr Whitman who later served as vice chairman on the board of Julius Berger. His first job in Nigeria was the construction of the Itoikin Bridge that links Lagos with Epe.

During my meeting with Mr Whitman and his team of engineers, I showed them what we were planning for the ring roads around Lagos. I believe people getting out of Lagos should have free ways that they can use. The concept I had for the inner ring road and outer ring road was to have pillars erected to the middle of Herbert Macaulay and Murtala Muhammed Way with the pillars supporting a network of highways on the top like the ones I saw in Tokyo, Japan. I believed we could achieve same in Lagos. The Julius Berger team looked into my concept and came up with a blueprint ready for my submission to the Federal Government. That was how Julius Berger and an army of officials came all the way to Lagos. Work began in earnest with the engineers in boats and canoes crisscrossing the body of water over which the 3rd Mainland Bridge and its ring roads would be built. At Marina, they proposed sand filling as the best option so as to be able to gain more useful land, in addition to solving the traffic problem on that axis. I was thinking we could use the idea of the 3rd Mainland Bridge to sand fill a sizeable portion of the water front of the University of Lagos and adjoining areas and create a big motor park where a park-and-ride system of transportation would be available to take passengers from the Oworonshoki area into Lagos, where you will equally take a taxi or a bus to wherever you are going on the Lagos Island and when you are through with what you came to do on the Island, you will be taken back by boats across the water to where your car is parked at Oworonshoki. That was one major project I would have loved to accomplish but couldn’t. To date, our waterways, I must say, are still largely underutilised.

naptu2:
It was a joint project. I've often written about Alhaji Femi Okunnu's role in the project, but he was not a governor of Lagos, so I couldn't have written about him in that post.

By the way, did you read Brigadier Johnson's interview on the first page (about how the idea of the Ring Road was concieved)?

9jaRealist:


Ok...
Also do not forget the contributions of Funsho Williams.
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9jaRealist:


Ok...
Also do not forget the contributions of Funsho Williams.
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Eteka1:
Building still looks modern. Those guys really tried back then.

naptu2:
I actually knew Engineer Williams personally (which was one of the reasons that the roads around my house were resurfaced in 1987).

9jaRealist:


Interesting to learn that...
Was obviously before my time, but our parents’ generation revered him.
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Burgerlomo:
Na wa oo, so e don tey wey den don dey ride okada 4 Lagos

9jaRealist:


Well, tells you how much of a sad commentary on Nigeria that most of the things that work today in this country was from the military rule...
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