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13/07/2024

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Enjoy your day 🎂 last born.

10/07/2024

Dear Arinze,

Thank you for your feedback. I am not sure the Lagos Police Command is using ethnic profiling to rid Lagos State of crime. The nine kidnappers recently killed after killing many Lagosians were neutralised by the police after residents of Ladipo tipped the police. The police did not even initiate it. And there was a spontaneous celebration after the police neutralised these marauders. You can see it in the now viral video.

However, you may have access to more accurate information than I do and I urge you to publish any evidence to that effect.

As to seaports, I know for a fact that both Port Harcourt and Onne Port are working and are open to importers and exporters without any restrictions. There is no federal government embargo on any port. In fact, a week ago, the Nigerian Customs Service seized a cache of illegal arms at that port. Onne Port has the capacity to receive very large ships. These are both in Rivers State. However, if you have any proof that the ports in Port Harcourt are closed, please make it public.

But even beyond that, states can build ports. Why have the states you are referring to not built their own ports? The Lekki Port and the Lekki Free Trade Zone is an initiative of Lagos State. If you do not like Lagos, then build your own ports. Nobody is stopping you!

Finally, on the issue of referendum, it is not in our Constitution. And the reason is simple.

The idea for a secession clause was mooted by Chief Obafemi Awolowo in 1954, during the Lagos Constitutional Conference, but Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it and galvanised a majority of the conference attendees to kill the idea.

After this was rejected, Chief Awolowo again wrote to the then Governor General of Nigeria, who rejected the clause on the grounds that the majority, led by Nnamdi Azikiwe, were not in support of it.

It was because of Nnamdi Azikiwe that section 86 was inserted into our constitution with the proviso that if any region should secede, it will be an act of treason.

Nnamdi Azikiwe himself wrote about this in an essay, which was published by the New Nigerian Newspapers in 1975, and has since been republished by other papers and by Mr Azikiwe himself.

Were it not for Azikiwe, Biafra would have had the legal right to secede.

Thanks again, and may God bless you.

10/07/2024

In the wake of the killing by the police of nine killer kidnappers who had been wreaking havoc on Lagos, some persons have resurrected already discredited claims about the development of Lagos. And because our people have short memories, it is expedient to set the records once again straight, using verifiable and traceable evidence,

This photo of Carter Bridge was taken in 1929, twenty eight years after the bridge was constructed in 1901. Carter Bridge is still standing today, 123 years later. If you zoom into the photo, you can see how heavily developed Lagos Island was in 1929. The place where the bridge ends in this photo is Idumota.

Carter Bridge was built by the then colonial Governor of Lagos, Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter, because of the heavy vehicular traffic in Lagos Island, which hitherto had to be ferried to Iddo in boats. As of 1901, there were actually more cars in Lagos than in the rest of Nigeria combined.

Mind you, this was long before oil was discovered in Nigeria. When Carter Bridge was completed, only Lagos, Ibadan, Lokoja, Kano, and Benin had sufficient municipal administration, population density, and infrastructural development to be called cities. Almost everywhere else, except for old Sokoto, Ile-Ife, Port Harcourt, Warri, Zungeru; and Abeokuta, were little more than large villages.

Anybody that came to Lagos after 1901 came to an already developed metropolis with bridges, expressways, hospitals, a city hall, a cathedral (Cathedral Church of Christ Marina), Nigeria's first electric power plant, built in Lagos in 1886, ports, courts, housing estates, public utilities, streetlights, sewage and drainages, and other modern infrastructure.

And it is sad that despite multiple photographic and video evidence, people still make unfounded and provocative claims about developing Lagos or that that space is a No Man's Land.

This photo is an almost 100 years old aerial image. It was taken from a plane, which means that Lagos had an airport (actually an airstrip) at that time. The people in those homes you see when you zoom in were mostly indigenous Lagosians. Appreciate them, and stop spitting on the faces of their ancestors by calling their land No Man's Land.

Look, I know it will annoy you, but the truth is bitter, but certainly better like butter in batter!

10/07/2024

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