By Okechukwu Nna Esq
Dear Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, If you want to ban anything here, then here is a list of the things you must ban, to save our lives in Lagos:
1️⃣. Ban bad roads; majority of the roads are terribly horrible.
2️⃣. Ban darkness: public power supply is epileptic in Lagos. Ban darkness that we may give steady light in Lagos, as we have in New York, London, Paris, Rwanda’s Kigali, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cairo, etc
3️⃣. Ban agbero and area boys: they’re suffocating life out of Lagosians. The fear of area boys, touts and agberos, is the beginning of wisdom in Lagos. Some people even say it’s an area-boys-and-agbero city, lawless, chaotic. These non state actors are the lords and masters and rulers of Lagos. Their breathe is law. Ban them to save our lives, and especially to make Lagos a decent city, like New York, London, Paris, Cairo, etc.
4️⃣. Ban kidnapping in Lagos, so we can begin to move about freely without fear of the unknown.
5️⃣. Ban LASTMA harassments: I did not say Ban LASTMA. I said ban their terror-style harassment. LASTMA was set up to MANAGE traffic in Lagos, not to harass, victimize, oppress and terrorise Lagosians. LASTMA has instead become a state-backed terror against Lagosians. Ban their terrorism, make them more civilized to focus on traffic management.
6️⃣. Ban Police brutality and extortion in Lagos: Lagosians are fed up with these.
7️⃣. Ban dearth of public water supply in Lagos. It’s public knowledge there is hardly any portable public water supply in Lagos. The side I live, the last time I experienced public water supply was 8 years ago. Ban absence of water supply so that we would begin to enjoy portable public water in Lagos. Lagosians deserve no less and we are ready to pay for it.
8️⃣. Ban pick-pocketing and petty-thievery in Lagos. As I write, petty thieves and louts go about in streets of Lagos in the day time, and mostly at night, chopping off people’s hands and arms, and killing people, with knives and machetes, just to steal their phones and other things.
9️⃣. Ban insecurity in Lagos. As it stands, the only reason lagosians still move about to some extent at night, in Lagos, is because almost every street has OPC and other private security guards hired and paid by each street, to protect them. No police presence in more than 75 percent of lagos at night. Ban this insecurity, to let lagosians sleep with two eyes closed.
9️⃣.Ban segregation, ethnic jingoism, and suppression of non-indigenes in Lagos. Ethnic jingoism has become official state policy in Lagos. You would never see or hear of any such thing in new York, London, Paris, Washington, Canada, etc. If we want Lagos to be like these, ban tribalism and jingoism in Lagos. Leave Styrofoam alone; it’s not our problem in Lagos
🔟. Ban dilapidated health system and facilities in Lagos, so that no resident of Lagos, including the governor, would never again travel abroad for medical care. Akeredolu died in Lagos, because there were no medical facilities to cater for his peculiar situation. If we improve on health care in Lagos, we’d be safer. Leave Styrofoam alone.
Ban all these and leave Styrofoam alone. Please, let poor lagosians breathe 🙏
