The video, which is available on youtube, offers an image of Lagos as a safe city that – in the words of Governor Babatunde Fashola – anybody “would like to call home.”
The video ostensibly made by the Lagos Internal Revenue Service also feautured the former governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu.
The video however presents a glitzy and glamorous portrait of the city of Lagos that is at odds with the experience of the vast majority of the millions of residents.
A Lagos-based businessman lamented that “most Lagosians can’t recognize the Lagos in this video.” He added that, while Mr. Fashola has done a commendable job in cleaning up parts of the city and building some roads, “It is farfetched to claim that Lagos works as a modern city should work.”
A Lagos-based lawyer pointed out that the video gives a rosy picture of the sharp rise in internally generated revenues in Lagos State, “but ignores the fact that there’s no transparency and little accountability in the process.
Another critic wondered why the video failed to focus on the neglected slums of the city as well as the plight of millions of Lagosians who reside in shanty sections that lack the most basic sanitary facilities. “Where are the real residents of Lagos who live next to open and overflowing gutters, whose children go to schools that are not fit for cockroaches, and who have to travel in overcrowded molue buses?” she asked. “Let us hear the voices of the teeming millions of Lagosians stating that their city is Eldorado on earth. Then I will take the video seriously,” she added.
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Highly exaggerated! ahan Fashola sef!
ReplyDeleteFashola don mind them. Keep on d good work. Lazi hands u guys shld go n work dan criticizing a Man dt av worked with all his heart. God bless u Fashola.
ReplyDeleteWell, I personally have always said there's no where in the world I would rather live than Lagos. There's loads of opportunities there. But this vid, ....em... na photoshop Fashola use o! Anyway, it's gives a positive vibe to the city and besides every other country does it too (abi ghetto no dey Amerixa?)
ReplyDelete@ the first writer, even though fashola exaggerated, he has demostrated what we call mass transformation. if other Governors will emulate him and stop stealing our money to other countries to boost their economy the country Nigeria will be a better Nation to call home.
ReplyDeleteFASHOLA I BEG EXAGGERATE YOU TOO MUCH, GOD GO BLESS YOU THE GOOD WORK. show your fellow Governors your strategies and Monitor them.
Great move by fashiola.
ReplyDeletewelldone sir
What is Jagaban doing in the clip? Still has his claw on the state?
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ReplyDeleteMr. Governor you are trying but don't praise yourself yet, you still have enough to do.
I didn't see mile two, alaba and okoko in the clip above. or those area are they not in Lagos? remember these area generates a lot of revenue for you, yet you and the council chairman's abandon the people living in this area. the roads are bad, no good hospital, not even one amusement pack some place in these areas don't even have Government primary schools and health centers.
you see you still have a lot to do
Thanks my Governor