Badagry road since 1999
I remember vividly while was at the college of education, otto/ijanikin as a student. I always go to school from Badagry in this deplorable state of our road untill I finished in 2002.
Sen. Bola Tinubu was the governor of Lagos State then. He came to Badagry and promised us that he will work to fix our road and get the money from the federal government, he promised heaven and earth and pleaded with our people to vote for him which I knew then that he was just fooling gullible people around.
He got reelected, our people fulfilled their individual promises to him nothing was done to the road. He left in 2007. He installed his boy Mr. Raji Fashola, both of them came to the Palace then with their cunning spirits and lies to deceived our people again and he equally left in 2015 without even looking back.
Ambode that had worked in Badagry local government division and had experience about the road came with his sagacity and promised our people too and done nothing, they all fooled them while other local governments in the state are getting the dividend of democracy in Lagos State, Badagry is left behind due to bad representatives and "afemiafemi" only me leaders.
In 2019, SanwoOlu 'Eko' came too and still the same story for the gods. Badagry is still battling with bad roads after 21 years of APC in Lagos State. One and half year "don dey waka" in this new dispensation nothing is seen in Badagry local government. What is our sin in that state? E je E bure ooooo!
In 2015, they lied to our people then that it was because PDP was the one in Federal and the place is a federal road and by the time APC is in power, they will fix it once and for all.
APC in person of General Bubu has been ruling this country for the past five years with his chicken change mantra that the whole world is now looking as unserious being due to his incompetence and lack of good governance and utmost none sincerity to the country that has taken the whole country to ask why Tinubu and his cronies had to deceived the masses for bringing "Agbako" instead of blessing to the country in 2015.
They deceived gullible Nigerians that within six months they will fixed their electricity, they will feed the whole nation, the unemployed youths will have 5,000 naira monthly till they get jobs, that $1 will equals #1, for the past 6 months students are still on strike, five years don waka, we still dey carry go for darkness, no good roads, the way to my house doesn't even have good roads, the health care system is nothing to write home about. Our education system is in shambles, there is nothing that you can point out that these looters have done for our people for 60 years.
Nigerians are seen as criminals both home and abroad, especially when you are at the airports. You have to prove yourself beyond anything before they can trust you abroad that you are not a criminal while people that are not up to us as a country will be going freely and getting free access to many things, just because of these wicked, God forsaken looters called leaders.
May you never know peace of mind with what you are making our people to pass through in Badagry and the nation at large.
Our brothers that are fighting for the betterment of our roads and our people were arrested for protesting peacefully yesterday.
I join millions of people calling on Lagos State government, the DPO Badagry division and everyone that knows what our people are passing through to rise up and demand for the release of these great men that stood up for our people to demand for good roads and for the government to bring the necessary amenities to the local government so that our people can have meaningful life experiences in their own state.
Badagry is the second largest populated division in Lagos State. It is housed with the First storey building in 1842, and the first place to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in Nigeria. It is a place that slave trade was carried out in the 15th century. It is one of the heart of Lagos State. Without Badagry division, Lagos State cannot be completed. A purported and so-called Mega City in making.
Can we compare Lagos with anywhere in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia? Malaysia does not have the kind of money we have as a nation, but their people are enjoying lives to fullness just like those in America, Canada and elsewhere in the advanced countries of the world. But, why are these wicked people treating us like this?
I am still asking ni o, can we compare developments here with anything or anywhere in Nigeria for 60 years? because our people back home love lies and this wicked politicithieves knew what they wanted, and so they are ready to give it to them one by one during and after the elections. Bible says humans love darkness more than light. They value lies compared to the truth.
Badagry Road is an international road, hence, it has been neglected for more than two decades, that I know of as a college student then.
What a shame to the government of APC and PDP for 21 years! and they cannot still fix a normal and basic thing in the country for two decades. What an irony of life!
I reiterated here again that these wonderful revolutionaries of Badagry Kingdom should be released unconditionally. They are only asking for their rights and a sane government or country will give them lives and hope because we cannot continue to look at you, killing our people on that road daily and not allowing the youth to thrive in their own nation, state or local government because of bad roads linking their businesses.
Government refusal to provide good jobs for them, and yet, no good amenities to thrives in their businesses is uncalled for. They should be released without any further delay and it should be unconditionally.
Thanks
God bless Gbagivile
God bless Lagos State
God bless Oduduwa Republic
Dr. James Oluwaseyi Hodonu-Wusu writes from University of Malaya, Malaysia.
