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Thank you Delafruita,

I suppose governance is about solving peoples problems. Glad you know the problem preceeded ABAT and BRF. Also, glad you know the flooding was due to heavy rainfall , and poor drainage atleast the last flooding was. My point was between the two ABAT and BRF, ACN have been in power in Lagos state for 12 years. Do we conclude ACN lack the innovation and the will to solve the problem considering the huge resources they collect. You guys can continue to give them excuses but it will not last forever.
Planting flowers does not improve the life of an average Lagosian compared to having a traffic free good road, floodless raining season, decent and affordable accommodation. I want to believe that if a relative of yours got drowned in the flood, you would have held the Lagos state government responsible and not excuse them.


Sorry guys, I meant to type planting flowers does not improve the life of an average Lagosian compared to having traffic free good roads, floodless rainng season, decent and affordable housing.

Folks,

What is your rating of GEJ on the current issues in the country.

1. Minimum Wage
2. HIgh cost of Running Governemnt at all level of government in Nigeria
3. Boko Haram
4. Quality of the FEC.

Delafruita,

floods in lagos have been in existence ever before asiwaju became governor.besides the floods are a result of the combined forces of heavy rainfall,poor drainage and the release of water from the dam in ogun.of the three,the only one the government of lagos has control over is the issue of poor drainage and lagosians can attest to the fact that asiwaju and fashola after him have done a lot in that regard.otherwise the floods would have been more sever because of the population increase in lagos between 1999-2010.

Thank you Delafruita,

I suppose governance is about solving peoples problems. Glad you know the problem preceeded ABAT and BRF. Also, glad you know the flooding was due to heavy rainfall , and poor drainage atleast the last flooding was. My point was between the two ABAT and BRF, ACN have been in power in Lagos state for 12 years. Do we conclude ACN lack the innovation and the will to solve the problem considering the huge resources they collect. You guys can continue to give them excuses but it will not last forever.
Planting flowers does improve the life of an average Lagosian compared to having a traffic free good road, floodless raining season, decent and affordable accommodation. I want to believe that if a relative of yours got drowned in the flood, you would have held the Lagos state government responsible and not excuse them.

Only Emeka himself can take the decision considered right for himself.

The decision will be easier if no other issue exist between them but could become complicated if any other exist.

Scenario 1- Child fails DNA. Confront wife, she owns up, what does Emeka do? Send her away with the child. What does he achieve? Does he have his wasted life back? No. He has his honour back. What is destroyed? Other people maybe other children from same woman for Emeka. Can Emeka bear the emotional turmoil and bitterness this will bring to him?

2 - Emeka accepts wife's apology presuming she owns up again. Keeps family stable and everybody happy but Emeka sad. He sees himself as the goon and used . But the child could have been his anyway since he slept with the woman back then. Sometimes, when something has been on for too long, it is best to let sleeping dog lie.

I do not know what I would have done in this situation myself and that is why I repeat only Emeka can do what is right for himself in this matter. Whichever way it goes, Emeka will be further hurt. But we should remind ourselves that the peculiar thing about this case is the fact that it ruined Emeka's life though he allowed it to. There are many taking care of children they did not father without knowing.

It is a sad tale and one that makes one wonder if truly justice can be done in some situation.

ACN is really a smart party in many respect but unfortunately equally bad as PDP. What has ACN not tried to deflect the bad publicity that the flood brought its way.
It was not Fashola / ACN incompetence but global environmental problem. Flash flooding, and even rumour of tsunami went abouot town to make citizens exonerate uncles Fash and Tinubu and ACN corrupt machine. Now GEJ for not coming to visit should bear more blame than the incompetent ACN government .
Whether GEJ come to Lagos or not, what difference will that make to the fact that people have died because the government have failed to utilize massive state resources to solve the perennial flooding problem despite being in power for 12 years.

Regrettingly, the PDD daft as ever has kept silent why ACN makes mischief. Anyway, both are birds of same feather.

Ileke Idi,

Did you read the report? Even the reporter indirectly confirmed it is a government school. Private schools don't bear such names anyway.

Supposing the school is a private one , whose responsibility is it to license schools in Lagos State? Do they just license schools any how without adequate infrastructure and also fail to monitore? Are these not the Lagos state government responsibilities?

Had this boy been your nephew, I hope you will still defend your glorified over-hyped mediocre Uncle Fashola.

Hope you are not offended sha.

Bye

THE heart-rending death of an eight-year old primary school pupil of Irepodun Primary School, Ketu in Lagos, who fell into an open dilapidated pit toilet while defecating, underscores the deplorable state of infrastructure in Nigeria’s public school system. The death of the pupil is a pointer to the mess in our schools, and the horrifying condition under which our children are learning.

A lot has been said about the pathetic state of infrastructure in our public schools without the authorities doing anything to remedy the situation. The result is that pupils and students in public schools, from primary to tertiary level, daily face acute challenges in a most excruciating learning environment.

Little Lawal Buhari paid the ultimate price for finding himself in one of such blighted schools. In those schools, the children are exposed to disease-causing pathogens in a most unhygienic environment. Since there is no water, the issue of basic hygiene is foreclosed. The pupils defecate without washing their hands and obviously eat with the same hands. It is nauseating.

What else is expected in an environment where there are practically no water and no toilets for students and teachers, who are consequently forced to use nearby bushes when pressed. There are no records of the number of school children who have died or contracted one disease or the other in schools as a result of poor hygienic condition. The frequent outbreak of cholera in different parts of the country, especially, among children, obviously is indicative of this sad situation.

According to reports, little Buhari about a fortnight ago fell into his school’s open pit toilet that caved in as he was stooping to ease himself. The boy’s corpse was later pulled out of the pit in a most disgusting spectacle. If the boy had not been seen when he went into the ramshackle toilet, there could have been suspicion that he had been kidnapped or used for rituals in our increasingly diabolical society where people get missing daily.

However, his mates saw him when he took permission from the class teacher to use the toilet shortly before closing time. In the absence of a decent toilet, the pupil made straight to the dilapidated pit latrine used by more than 1,000 pupils of the school.

He reportedly spread papers on the dirty floor, in the manner of the pupils, to defecate upon and later throw into the toilet. But unknown to him, the toilet’s bricks have been weakened; he fell straight into the six-feet deep pit helplessly as it caved in.

When another pupil who noticed that Buhari had fallen into the toilet went and informed his teachers, they reportedly ignored him. But he persisted until it dawned on them that a disaster had occurred. That was when they began efforts to pull the boy out. But it was too late as he was already dead. His death resulted from a combination of negligence and failure of the system.

News of Buhari’s death naturally drew the ire of some young men in the neighbourhood who invaded the school and reportedly pulled down the doors of the toilets used by the teachers, which were locked and not accessible to the pupils. The damage, however, has been done.

The Ketu school disaster is only a tip of the iceberg of the horrible situation in our public schools. All over Lagos, the situation is the same in virtually all public schools. Things are not different in other states. Even public secondary schools and universities are not left out. Undergraduates in many of our institutions help themselves in the surrounding bushes because there are no toilets.

It is unfortunate that the nation finds it difficult to provide toilets or conveniences as part of basic human infrastructure needed. Schools, markets, bus parks, train stations, and indeed all public places are built without toilets. People travel long distances from one part of the country to another without seeing a single convenience on the way.

Across the country, practically no public building has functional toilets. In places where a few exist, they are reserved for the highest officials like the Ketu Primary School case, and so are permanently under lock and key, accessible only to the concerned officials. The rest of the people urinate and defecate in the open, presenting an unfortunate state of affair that reduces Nigerians to the level of sub-humans.

Absence of water and sanitation facilities undoubtedly aggravates the spread of communicable diseases. Few Nigerians wash their hands once they leave their homes until they are back. Market women, snack hawkers, fruit and vegetable sellers, meat sellers, etc, use the same unwashed hands to sell to members of the public. There is urgent need to provide toilets in schools and public places. It is pertinent to ask why schools are built without toilets, or why the toilets are not maintained.

As regards the death of Buhari, the state authorities failed in their responsibility to provide safe and decent toilets when the school was built. That amounts to negligence, for which Buhari’s family should be compensated accordingly by the Lagos State authorities, failing which the family ought to seek legal redress. Hopefully, little Buhari’s death would mark the beginning of the era of providing safe toilets in public schools, and therefore preventing a recurrence of the ghastly incident.

To butress the point made about the quality of the road work being done by Lagos State Contractors, pot holes are emerging on the Ozumba Mbadiwe road in front of Calverton Helicopter. The same road that gulped whooping 2 Billion Naira per Kilometre. You can deceive people many times but you cannot deceive them all the time.

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I voted for GEJ and not PDP. There will be many more of this. We sidon look.

There are times when logic desert men and goodness is mistaken for evil. That GEJ won does not indicate he is better than Buhari, only the biggest spender won.

Buhari and GEJ are politicians but when CAN president becomes a politician, then peril awaits the country and Rwanda and Somalia are examples. Men in position like CAN President should desist from making such utterances coming form Oritsejafor. It is actually immature and indefensible. I know a former CAN President tactly avoided commenting on Oritsejafor's utterances. Has Oritsejafor thought of what he will look like if GEJ performs woefully?

Posterity will jugde all men. I only hope when the reward for the conduct of us all comes, we will be honest to accept it.

ACN owes Nigerians an apology. The party owes Oyo State apology for recycling this man. If this man were still PDP, I will find the comment to type but not ACN. Can ACN decamp this man now because he can only bring more disgrace and bad publicity.

Is ACN loosing the grip due to massive gains in popularity?

Sir,

You need not abuse us for expressing opinions. Somehow, there are many that share my view on Lagos State / ACN as expressed above. Please see Newspaper report pasted below. What do you call it if true?

[b]N7bn: Group urges EFCC to probe Lagos Assembly
By Olamilekan Lartey and Sesan Olufowobi
Friday, 20 May 2011


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Hon. Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly may be the guest of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission if the anti-graft agency begins a probe into the allegations contained in a petition against him.



The Punch learnt on Thursday that there was a petition before the EFCC against the Speaker, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, over the proprietness of the use of the over N7bn he had collected as running costs for the Lagos State House of Assembly in just 12 months.



The petitioners, under the aegis of a civil rights group, Kick Against Corruption, urged the EFCC to probe Ikuforiji because he had allegedly converted the huge sum of money meant for the state legislature.



The petitioners alleged that the money had been laundered abroad through an automobile company.



Signed by a lawyer, Mr. Olawale Williams, the petitioners alleged that the Speaker collected N500m monthly as running cost for the House.



A copy of the petition, cited by our correspondent in Abuja stated in part, “The initial monthly running cost of the House in 1999 was put at N20m and later jerked up to N40m before the end of the Bola Tinubu administration. This amount the Babatunde Fashola regime also increased to N60m. The cost had, however, been moved up to N500m monthly in 2010 by the House of Assembly.



“This was passed into law and made a first line charge so that the amount can be deducted directly from the state revenue account without any recourse to the executive and has been collecting this huge sum without any corresponding impact on the lives of members or their duties.”



Although, sources familiar with the petition at the anti-graft agency said investigation into the allegation would begin immediately, EFCC spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said the petition would be attended to just like any other one that arrived at the commission.



“Every petition we receive is treated on its merit and if we have the one you refer to, it will be so treated,” Babafemi said.



Former Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Mr. Lanre Odubote, told our correspondent that he was not in a position to respond.



Odubote, who is a House of Representatives member-elect under the aegis of the Action Congress of Nigeria, however, advised that more investigation should be done, saying the petition smacked of mischief.



He said, “How much is the allocation to the House for two years that they are now saying N7bn was diverted in a year?”



When our correspondent contacted the state House of Assembly’s information officer, Mr. Kehinde Fagbolade, he declined comment on the issue, saying only the Speaker could talk on the matter.



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Sad that because we have a lot of bad leaders in governance especially PDP that is horrendously corrupt and inept, most people celebrate the mediocrity of ACN as excelence. If the debt is not enough like some posters here said , let ACN pile it further till it becomes a generational burden.
Lagos is making effort at good governance but at what cost? Do you think Lagos has a due process that ensures contract are not inflated and funds are not stolen?
It is like most Lagosians are hoodwinked into believing the state is doing well because of the massive propanganda of ACN. However, the corruption that is smartly being perpetrated in Lagos is massive and until such time when the average Lagosian is ready to confront the truth that the state is being milked, there will be no change in direction.

My take.

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…Reviewed Quarterly Allowance for Colleagues from N28.9 to N42 million
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Would you recommend speed breakers on Ikorodu road. Imagine the traffick that will cause on Lekki Epe Expressway.

Accidents are caused by many reasons not limited to:

1. Human Error i.e Driver
2. Not roda worthy vehicle- Government failure to enforce laws.
3. Road Hazhards - Nigerian roads are full of killer hazhards and its is the governement failure again.
4. Government should provide more efficient alternative mass transit to reduce road congestion.


The road safety guys should do their wor.
The government should remove road hazhards.
The governement should begin adequate education of drivers and proper recertification to drive.

My take

Ladies and Gents,

Your posts remind me of Evangelist Ebenezer Obey's music that goes like this.

Ko si ogbon to le da, ko si iwa ti o le wu, ti o le fi te aye lorun. Translated to English no matter what you do, you cannot please humans.

In the midst of wolves, looters, thieves, robbers, 419 politicians and self serving leaders, a man of integrity came out, spoke his mind, rallies support and condemn evil. His effort was appreciated, was found worthy of peaples trust and invited to take bigger role in shaping the destiny of his Country.

Unfortunately, his people rejected his offer of service and rather rewarded the band of wolves, looters,  and thieves that led them to where they are. The man found out his peoples thinking is illogical and is dumbfounded. At such times, silence is best virture and the man choose the virture.

Here his people, whose suffering pushed this man to take up the challenges of nation building tongue lash him.

In South Africa, Rev Desmon Tutu came out strongly for his people. Rev Martin Luther King Jnr did in US. Countless other examples abound.

Where good men keep silent, evil will triumph.
I personally think we should commend people like Buhari, Ribadu, Bakare and others who made effort to stop further slide into distruction that this Country is headed.

Politics need good minded people with integrity. No matter what you say about Pastor Bakare, his church did not frolick with the politicians talkless of obtaining a import duty waiver and abusing it. The so good men of God most Nigeria Christians rever are any government in power. They never say bad things to leaders that loot, none condemn their act of incest but rather patronise them for import duty waivers among other favours.

I suppose the politicians and the spiritual leaders are the masters chess players while the rest of the citizens especially the illogically lousy ones are the pawns. Religion florish where poverty abouds. Politicians pillage our nation leaving a trail of poverty and hopelessness. Spiritual leaders latch onto this to conquer the mind of otherwise rational men and further exploit them for power, and money.

Whichever way you look at it, the ordinary people of this country including most that have abuse Pastor Bakare here are the loosers in this game of power and deceit.

Wait till April 2015 before counting your chicks.

Take care.

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