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‘Deportation’ claim political, says Fashola
Posted by: Miriam Ekene-Okoro in Featured, News 6 hours ago

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday described as “political” the raging controversy over the resettlement of 67 people from Lagos in Onitsha, Anambra state.

Speaking for the first time on the issue, which has been raging since last week, Fashola told reporters after inspecting the on-going light rail project and Jetties in Mile 2 area of the state, that the propaganda on the issue was meant to tarnish the reputation and credibility of his government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the November 16 governorship election in that state.

The 67 Igbo were allegedly ‘deported’ from Lagos to Onitsha where they were said to have been abandoned.

But Police Commissioner Umar Manko denied the deportation claim.

Fashola said: “It is unfortunate that my colleague governor (of Anambra State Peter Obi) made this a media issue. As I speak, I haven’t received any telephone call or letter from him to complain. And I don’t think that is the way government works. On less important matters like this, he had called me before.

“This is a political season and Anambra State will be up for a contest. And in a political season, unusual things happen and perhaps we are living in an interesting time. And some of the evidence was when one sees two adults kissing on television, it tells you that something is at foot. And it is really important to say that our hospitality in Lagos State is legendary.

“And it is a global legend that the people of Lagos state are hospitable people. And so is the present government of the state and previous administrations.”

Fashola explained that those hiding under the controversy to portray the state government in a bad light before the Igbo speaking communities have failed to realise the existing bond between the government and the Igbo residents over the years.

He said: “I think there is a large Igbo community in the state. And their presence is evident in Alaba with the Alaba International Market and the ASPAMDA market. And they are doing their business peacefully while the state government is working tirelessly to provide the required transport system that will help improve the travel time and their businesses.

“There is too much at stake for anyone to begin to incite the Igbo community against their host state. There is too much at stake here. It is a very dangerous and unwarranted precedent.

“And I hope that common sense will prevail here. Also, those who are praying for blood should know that there is too much at risk here.”

The governor said when he gets a formal complaint from the Anambra State government or a notification from the Presidency, to which Governor Obi allegedly petitioned, he would lay the facts bare.

He said the government is determined to complete the rail project, adding that tremendous progress had been made on the tracking.

Fashola said five major transportation solutions were simultaneously being implemented in the state. According to him, the state government-owned ferry services will be subsidised when it starts operations.

He said the state government had issued licences to 59 operators, who acquired 109 ferries, adding that over 1.8 million Lagosians commute from one location to the other, using the ferry services.

Senator Chris Ngige has thrown more light on the issue, courtesy of a July 30 letter he wrote to the President of an Igbo professional group, Aka Ikenga.

The group had, at a meeting on July 28, requested Dr. Ngige, a senator elected on the ticket of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (A CN), to find out what transpired.

Ngige said after his meeting with Fashola, he discovered that it was not about deportation “but a social welfare intervention involving several homeless destitute and other psychiatric cases roaming the streets and some living under the bridges in Lagos”.

Ngige added in the letter: “These people were taken in and treated and cared for by the Lagos State Government free of charge and thereafter needed to be reintegrated with their families.

“After this rehabilitation, the affected people disclosed their true identities and the disclosure revealed that 14 of them were from Anambra State. For the purpose of reintegration with their kith and kin back home (most of them have nobody in Lagos) and for further social support and care, Lagos State Government communicated the Anambra State Government as well as other affected state governments to come forward and identify and take over their people.

“On receipt of this communication, Anambra State Government requested for the identities of those claiming to be from the state (see letter as annex 2). The list was promptly supplied to them by Lagos State for immediate and urgent action (see letter as annex 3).

“With further contact and pressure, Anambra State Government preferred that the handing over be done at Onitsha Bridgehead and Lagos State obliged but found no Anambra State Government representative on arrival on the agreed date and was hence forced to leave the people at a government office they found at the Niger Bridgehead.

“The Lagos State Government further explained that this kind of exchange of destitute occurs between states, as she recently went to Akwa Ibom State to take back two of her rehabilitated citizens.

“You will recall Mr. President of Aka Ikenga that I had assured the Aka Ikenga members that the Lagos State Government that I am familiar with will not go out of its way to cause hardship to our people and this is evident in its deposition as the first Government of Lagos State to appoint Igbo as commissioner and many others into other cabinet political position.

“For the promotion and maintenance of the good relationship that exists between the Igbo who form about 25 per cent of the population of Lagos State and their Lagos host, I have secured an appointment for you, the President and Executive members of Aka Ikenga to further discuss this matter and other sundry issues affecting Ndi Igbo in Lagos, with the Lagos State Governor on a date that will be mutually agreed to by both parties.

“As a member of Action Congress of Nigeria the (ACN), which is the party in power in Lagos State, I wish to further reassure you and Aka Ikenga in particular and Ndi Igbo in general, that the government of Lagos State, that I am familiar with does not and will not habour any anti-Igbo agenda, as is being insinuated in certain quarters.”

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