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Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said those who have lived in Lagos for 20 years should be given a free pass to heaven due to traffic congestion in the commercial city.


Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said those who have lived in Lagos for 20 years should be given a free pass to heaven due to traffic congestion in the commercial city.

The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said this on Thursday while explaining the rationale for introducing the four-day working week in Kaduna.

“When people rest more, they are more productive when they come on Monday. They do much more work. Most people are tired on Thursdays anyway; let’s be realistic,” he said during a ministerial briefing in Abuja.

“I don’t know how people in Lagos survive. Every day, four hours in traffic for five days. I don’t know if Saturdays and Sundays are enough for them to rest.

“That is why I feel that all those that have lived in Lagos for 20 years should just go straight to heaven because they have already lived in hell. Honestly, they have paid their dues so they should just be given free pass.”

While explaining further about the benefits of the four-day working week, El-Rufai said: “The benefits are that people rest more; they have more family time; they have more leisure time and they spend more money. It is better for the


Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said those who have lived in Lagos for 20 years should be given a free pass to heaven due to traffic congestion in the commercial city.

The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said this on Thursday while explaining the rationale for introducing the four-day working week in Kaduna.

“When people rest more, they are more productive when they come on Monday. They do much more work. Most people are tired on Thursdays anyway; let’s be realistic,” he said during a ministerial briefing in Abuja.

“I don’t know how people in Lagos survive. Every day, four hours in traffic for five days. I don’t know if Saturdays and Sundays are enough for them to rest.

“That is why I feel that all those that have lived in Lagos for 20 years should just go straight to heaven because they have already lived in hell. Honestly, they have paid their dues so they should just be given free pass.”

While explaining further about the benefits of the four-day working week, El-Rufai said: “The benefits are that people rest more; they have more family time; they have more leisure time and they spend more money. It is better for the economy”.

On how the state government has implemented it, the governor said schools were the easiest. According to him, since schools initially had classes up to 12pm on Fridays – which is only four hours – one more hour was added to the other days of the week.

“The health sector was the easiest because the health sector always operates a shift system — 36 hours a week. Where we have challenges is with the private sector because of over-time. Now, if you work on Fridays, it is extra pay because it is overtime,” El-Rufai said during the event organised by the presidential media team.

“We have not imposed it on the private sector yet. We are discussing with them to have a transition period of two to three years, but certainly, in the public sector, we have resolved all the issues. We are drafting the regulations to gazette them.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2022/02/24/traffic-congestion-lagosians-should-get-free-pass-to-heaven-el-rufai/

Helinues over to you

I guess train is coming very soon to alleviate the pains of Lagosians.

A city of over 15 million people not having a functional intracity train is bewildering to imagine. Even FGN should have looked into this

And please what should New Yorkers do short man devil?

This stupid man should just shut up since he can not find solution to the unimaginable killings taken place in his so called state, if it was in another state now he and his unrule children could have been abusing the state govonor

Simply say you've achieved your ambition of making Friday equal to Sunday. Stop the unnecessary shalaye....

Coolsperm:
This stupid man should just shut up since he can not find solution to the unimaginable killings taken place in his so called state, if it was in another state now he and his unrule children could have been abusing the state govonor

The same person complaining about Rufais son wrote this..

Coolsperm:
30% of them are local Yoruba Muslims yourths who wants to get rich by mining of skulls

Rufai has insulted no one here. Simply giving accolades to how resilient Lagosians are. In addition, the man is a thousand times better than all your five governors out together. The security situation in Kaduna is unfortunate, and so is that in the East, especially coupled with cannibalism.

Very true, and the intra-city rail cannot come soon enough.

backbencher:
Very true, and the intra-city rail cannot come soon enough.

them need to speed up the train construction work so that commuter can have some relief �

Hahaha....Nice witty punch

The traffice comes with the burden of leadership that we carry in Lagos as the No. 1 cosmopolitan city in Africa.

God bless Lagos State.


Meanwhile,I urge you to please bring your investments to Lagos today.

In Lagos, you and your investments are safe and your investment is guaranteed of great returns.

We are a very hospitable people . We are the startup capital of Africa and we have the best run city economy in Africa in terms of GDP.

We have a vibrant population and we are the World Economic Forum-rated Africa's No 1 cosmopolitan city with with many infrastructures, a prestigious University of Lagos(UNILAG) that has produced notable Nigerians like the current V.P ,Prof. Yemi Osibanjo,SAN, beaches, great folklore traditional Yoruba & contemprorary Yoruba Afro hip-hop music , the city of Grammy Award winners and food!

Invest in Lagos today, please.

Thank you.