March 19, (THEWILL) – General Secretary of the Pan-Lagos Indigenes, Omo Eko Pataki, Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, has described the reintroduction of Toll Gates at Lekki by the Lagos State Government as callous and vicious.
In a press statement he signed on behalf of Omo Eko Pataki titled: “Sanwo-Olu’s Toll Gates: A Provocative Incubus”, the forum said: “At a time of great economic crisis, when many Lagosians are crushed by various circadian burdens of survival, when many households are diminished by the harsh, bruising realities of an indifferent power, when access to the most basic illustrations of existence is increasingly hard and unreachable, when homes have become penurious hovels, when hunger parades the Lagosian landscapes like stubborn, immovable sentry- Governor Sanwo-Olu in his illogic has decided to add to the Lagosian hellish burden.”
Omo Eko Pataki said Sanwo-Olu’s attempt to bring back the Toll gates, almost two years after innocent young men and women were mowed down by the agents of the power “is callous, wicked, vicious, downright evil in the most darkling visage.”
“Lagosians are already with a thousand crucibles. The unemployment roll is swelling everyday. The pangs of hunger are visible in the ceaseless parade of the homeless, the urchins, the beggars and the thousands on the wrong side of fate.
“Everyday, thousands are stranded at various locations, stripped of transportation fares. They wait in the sun. They wait in the rain. They trek endlessly to the roads that lead no where in search of refuge as transporters and food sellers equally triple their costs.
“And yet, with all these challenges, with all these swamping miseries, with the bodies of the young protesters of the Endsars still crying for justice, Sanwo-Olu in his crass unfathomable idiocy, still wants to reintroduce the very combustible material that almost brought Lagos to its ruins? I ask, is this man governing at all or being led to an irredeemable bouleversement?”, Omo Eko Pataki said.
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AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
