Lagos under beggars’ siege

Whilst Lagos State House of Assembly is upbeat in passing a legislation outlawing the parading of suspects in whatever guise, it leaves much to be desired why such a bill has become a legislative priority in an assembly inundated with cosmopolitan exigencies begging for attention.

How would parading a suspect help the Lagos economy or its social life? It comes across as one of the inanities of the Lagos Assembly leaving exigent state matters to suffer while focusing on immaterial denouements.

Lagos has become a basket of attraction for mendicants who are ejected from other less endowed states who have adopted proactive state legislation.

Beggars and other social miscreants have made Lagos one of the most unlivable spaces on earth; yet Lagos assembly finds no merit in taking urgent legislative steps to arrest it.

Highway robbers can hardly be distinguished from highway beggars in Lagos all combined to make commuting a hell for lawbiding citizens.

In the midst of these confusion, Lagos assembly is only concerned with the mundane issue of parading or not parading suspects. What an outlandish dereliction of duty!

Lagos can provide crowdfunding platforms where citizens can make contributions to housing and feeding the homeless among these beggars, but to simply allow beggars to lay siege on a state capital accentuates a depiction of a Hobbesian State of Nature.

If Lagos State is not embarrassed by this malady then nothing else could rouse its sense of tectonic urgency.

Bukola Ajisola can be reached through bukymany@yahoo.com