₦airaland Forum

I'm not against wiping out all the flea markets in Lagos state.
The alternative for the masses suffering to make ends meet,
feed family, send their children to school, pay house rent, and
so many others, is my sole concern. Afterall, the so called leaders
led them into this wilderness in the first place.

I really think the vigour Fashola is using to discharge his duties
should start from the very top. Lets purge Nigeria of bad leaders
then let all other things follow.

Personally, what Nigeria really lacks right now is firmness of purpose.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character,
and one of the best instruments of success, without it, genius wastes
its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

@d1maff and Ras Pwn
You guys dey fight before?
Make una take am easy with each other.
There are better things to do rather than insulting each other.

@Lucabrasi
Now you are sounding like a self appointed/annointed apostle of the Fashola
administration.

This constant link of Lagos to the western world is getting at me.
Until the masses are released from the stranglehood of dire poverty,
poor healthcare, gross unemployment, constant power outages then
CCTV should take the back burner, simple.

And please spare me that funding preaching, there are so many things
such fund could be channeled. Agreed, Fashola is trying, it is nothing compared
to the masses expectation of better standard of living.

@roodest

roodest:
one must learn to walk,
so he may run

what happened to the most basic issues facing every lagosian?
housing, electricity/power, transport (traffic issues, horrible roads, undefined road usage rules, etc) street lights, et al

chai, na wa o.
i doubt that this is a solution to lagos security issues

Thanks my brother, exactly what I've been saying.

@Lucabrasi
Do i have to experience arm robbery first hand to know what it means?
Places where they have this things also have very efficient Police Force to
utilize the information obtained from CCTV. Does Lagos have the kind of Police Force that can match
this technology?

There are so many issues for Fashola to tackle, so many. I'm talking about basic amenities/utilities
that have malfunction decades back.
Let him start from there.

@lucabrasi
Yeah, you've made your point.
Now my candid advice, come and stay in Lagos for one week and really go round the city.
We cannot be satisfied or fooled with mere flash in the pan because we want to embrace
development by all means. No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. CCTV my foot.

Now it is the turn of custom officers to turn trigger happy, abi?
Do you have to shoot a vehicle on motion to stop it?
They have their own vehicle, they should have given the bus a chase, instead of
shooting sporadically at innocent people. If they were carrying out a lawful act, why did
they run? They should have waited and smelt the wrath of the people.

muy:
WHAT’S FASHOLA GOT TO DO WITH IT?

I’ve read through so many articles and heard so many speeches against this man FASHOLA. Its really so sad when you hear people condemn this man of change so abruptly and without concise and tangible reasons.
The most horrifying is heard even in the midst of the so called ‘learned’. It gave me another re-think if we have learned in the days of now, I wonder whether going to school or learning to read or write means education, if this is then we don’t have many of the so called in this bracket. so sad.
I was born and grew up in the ‘Lagos of Old’, when things were a bit organised and more predictable, when cleanliness was a way of life with little enforcement, when roads were free of bottle neck traffic, when bust stops were without the park touts, when bridges were not habitable, when street trading was illegal, when government took things more seriously, when life was meaningful and precious, when government even in the khakis were more concerned than the gown wearing ‘thieves’ we now have, when new roads were constructed, unlike the ‘coating’ we are witnessing these days, when sanitation was prioritized, when citizens were law-abiding, when ‘one-way driving’ was a taboo, when the Nigeria Police was a ‘Force’ that commanded respect. And so on and so…………

And the reverse is the case these days, we now witness thieves of sophistication in power, all they ever do is concentrate on deriving new formulae in the ‘National Assembly of Rogues’ to share our collective wealth, a collection of thieves finding it difficult to approve =N=30,000.00 minimum wage for a true Nigerian worker who sweat for his money. We need a re-think in this country, we have folded our arms for too long and now we are rated as cowards who will go with anything any day no matter how hard and in-humane.

In Lagos over the years, a lot of decay has occurred and still occurring, its very pitiful that Lagos had in the past fallen in the hands of ‘wrong managers’ who cared-less about the used-to-be organised setting the colonial masters left for us, disappearance and non-functioning of many structures in the past years is of great concern to, how the latter Lagos disappeared into filth, more population of migrants from everywhere in the world, infrastructural decay, defacing of our streets and many more. Now Lagos is almost not working as she finds herself in shambles, shanties and all forms of illegal activities in every part of the once beautiful city. And because of the illegal activities Lagos condones, we have migrants from everywhere coming for the boom in illegalities and touting. And an increase in crime in Nigeria at large.

Now Mr. Fashola is doing all within capacity to restore the glory of Lagos we grew up in, trying to restore the peace and beautiful sights of those days, trying to bring back to Lagos what gave her the name in those days that attracted the likes of those giant multinationals (many of whom have packed and left as a result of the changing environment and increase in crime and non-business environment brooding).

Eko wen jele, where art thy beauty gone?

Lagos originally was built by the colonial masters to house just 250,00 residents, but Lagos now houses more than 5000% necessary, and the result is what we have today.
Shanties and chalets everywhere, and we are good with it?

I support (with whole of my heart even more) the demolition taking place in oshodi and the more of its kind to come, I support the beautification and the re-facing of our environment, I support the BRT and tax, I support the de-flooding and demolishing of houses built on drainages, I support the zero tolerance to environmental nuisance, I support the long awaited change Mr. Fashola is bringing. All these are for our own good and use, for our own health and sustenance.

1. Oshodi to start with was not in any way built for market purpose, it’s a transit spiral for vehicular passage to everywhere in the state, Oshodi was regarded as a point of transit for anyone at any time to any where, in the old. Before the demolition, a whole lot of commuters avoid Oshodi like some coli-disease. Have you estimated the value of man-efforts, productive hours and lives in Oshodi for all of these illegalities and crimes committed here on daily basis? Have you ever had an emergency and got stuck on the way either because you are enroute Oshodi or avoiding Oshodi (which would have been quicker for you), Have you got robbed or got someone you know robbed in Oshodi? Have you got raped or got someone close to you raped? And many more. Were you not aware of the deaths recorded in this area when there’s a mishap either by rail or road? Or even abused either morally or physically by traders in this same place! So why should we support a change like Mr. Fashola’s?
Oshodi was never built for market purpose!

And the question, where do these traders go?
I learnt alternative has been provided by the LGA chairman, some stalls for free and some for token.

2. The beautification exercise taking place in Lagos is seen by many as just one to add beauty; may I use this medium to place you in the know that, even the human specie is facing extinction gradually, ever thought of climate change? Ever asked why its getting hotter by the day? Asked why we seem to have rains round the year? Well, Mr. Fashola’s beautification goes beyond fashion, its in the bid to save our planet and humans from going down memory lane, the greens (plants & trees) will help with CO2 to ease the intense heat of the Sun and thereby protect the Ozone layer from further depletion (as a result of emission of poisonous gases from our engines and automobiles) and thus heat and our extinction. Even hot Dubai of about 45 degree C has become green as a result of this exercise, why not Naija? Lagos? Let’s plant a tree today, let’s protect our environment, let’s ensure there will be a Generation Next!

The Lagos problem is not Fashola’s, the heat of demolition should fall on Fashola, it all goes down the lane through to the coffers of power in Nigeria at large, the problem faced by the former ‘residents’ of Lagos, how they have left the populace with unemployment and un-even development in the 36 states of the federation, they have stuffed confidence out of the average man, and there’s almost no end in sight, such of these brought so many people to Lagos, many to do business legal or illegal, thus evolving of ‘Oshodi Market and Association of Bridge Dwellers’. If the federal govt had done what they ought, Oshodi won’t have witnessed what it did in the PAST and PRESENT. And unemployment in the entire country at large. But Fashola is at the receiving end of it all, what happened to Mr. Yar’Dua who is busy changing ‘Kidney’ and ministers, is this achievement not credible for an in-competent ruler of the world’s most populous black race state?
And yet no help in sight.
Oshodi demolition, Yar’Dua shouldn’t be exempted, neither should the past leaders of Lagos who failed to do anything tangible to restore Lagos, from Colonel Raji Rasaki, Michael Otedola, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, General Moh’d Marwa, and others, you can name names! What happened to the Tax payers monies under these regimes and government? Now that these money is spent wisely to redevelop Lagos under Fashola, let’s welcome change we can believe in.
If OGD of Ogun, Oni of Ekiti, Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Suswam of Benue, Rotimi of Rivers, Ohakim of Imo, Idris of Kogi, Yuguda of Bauchi, oyinlola of Osun, Shekarau of Kano, Oshiomole of Edo, and co are reading; it’s that time you developed your states, provide social amenities, infrastructures, employment and genuine poverty eradication, this will in long help in decongesting areas of dense population and thus give productivity to the nation in general.
Let’s allow Fashola work, let’s praise the working Nigerians and discredit the thieves in power, may God punish them one after another. Amen.
This is a change we deserve long before now, at least if we watch CNN, and see how it is done outside our shores, even our neighbours in Ghana, Benin and co aint as filthy as we are, aint as disorganised as we are.
its touching that the almighty Oshodi traders got to go,, *to be continued
oluyomi writes from lagos nigera.

Mr Fashola praise singer, nobody is against some of the notable works Fashola is doing, but some of this things should be prioritised to suit the needs
of the masses at any point in time. What am simply saying is that Lagos has not gotten to the level of installing CCTV on the streets when there a lot of
infrastuctural mishap, road infested pot-holes,poverty, poor health care, power outages just to mention a few. He should concentrate his effort on more realistc projects and avoid
this ludicrous elephant project.

This lawbreakers makers can't fail to amuse, despite the poor state of the economy,
high level poverty, total collapse of infrastructure, hunger, they still deem it fit to travel abroad
and enjoy what their counterpart abroad laboured to deliver to their people.
They shamefully parade their ill-gotten affluence abroad all in the name of working.

Let them break the C.B.N, and add more to the 15 Billions they already got, fools.
Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent, simple.

Nigerians are not cowards, Phil or whatever his name is should direct his
self styled frustration at something else.

The young chap is justifying his criminal actions with serious indictment on the leaders.
I think though, that he should be rehabilitated, rather than outright crucifixion.

The question really is: CCTV, is that what we really need in Lagos right now?
I mean there are a lot more they could channel this money into.
Please don't ask me, like what, because it's staring us in the face daily
except you are suffering from sight epilepsy. CCTV my foot!!!

OBJ came, saw and left Nigeria far worse than he met it, simple.
He had the best opportunity of transforming, impacting seriously on the lives
of Nigerians, he just simply missed the bus to achieving it, PERIOD.

@poster
Of course there is hope in the air. It has been in the air since independence.
So pot holed filled road decorated with street light is your idea of development?
Why don't you move permanently home (Nigeria) and relish in it?
You pick out four areas certainly not four states, and you think you have seen improvement
when majority of the people are wallowing in poverty, suffering injustice, barely able to feed
twice daily, with subtle intent to impoverish them more by politicians imposed on them,
please gimme a break and find a better topic to contribute your new found "proud of Nigeria lines to".

What are you scared of?

My sister, don't be deceived, leave the house.
Just try, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My brother, you are married to your wife not your sister.
Don't ever make the mistake of allowing your little sister
come in between you and your wife.
That would be foolhardy of you. The best thing to do is to separate
them, now, or face the bitter consequences.

The pilot and other crew members were magnificient.
I really thank God for their lives.
Please people, lets leave Nigeria out this. It will be highly
unthinkable to imagine this happening in Nigeria.

What is shocking in a country known to harbour a warehouse of imppossibilities?
Wonders shall never cease to haappen in our GREAT country.

Just the right topic to get me all worked up.
Nigeria roads? Please don't go there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not a sight to behold, a death trap deliberately set up
to cause pains, death to the masses.

I weep for Nigeria.

You think u need a wife,
I think u need a life.

What really is the solution to this debacle faced by Zimbabwe?
As an African its becoming really embarrassing and somewhat depresssing
to see fellow Africans go through this and not seeing any real solution coming.

Unmistakable signs of end time.

My sister, you really have strenght to harbour things like this.
Your friend has just exposed herself, you should be grateful for that.
Cut off from her, fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leave that girl, she does not deserve you. If you continue with her, or even marry her, then expect the worst.

I read this with mouth opened in disbelief, and wonder what was really happening to us in this country.
I read this with anger filling my heart to the brim and wonder if a Nigerian could do this in Lebanon.
I read this and surprisingly shocked that the fool was even bragging about calling other Nigerians to add salt to the injury.
I really hope he faces the wrath of the law for assaulting a commissioned officer of the country and an MON awardee at that.

Useless kora, a refugee wey wan turn King for anoda man land.
Wonder shall never cease to end in Naija.

That figure is inaccurate, it's much more than that.

The theater of laughter called Nigeria.
It's pathetic really, that he could still fool himself with the notion that he has a degree under his belt.
Funny really!!!!!!

After plunging the nation into endless chaos and bitter memories of his dictatorial rule, this man really has gut.