Lagos Assembly asks Sanwo- Olu to summon stakeholders' meeting over economic hardship
• Invites commissioners, top govt officials for briefing • Fulfil your promises to Nigerians, Bishop tells Tinubu
LAGOS State House of Assembly, yesterday, urged Governor Babajide SanwoOlu to urgently summon a stakeholders' meeting to address the current hardship being experienced by residents of the state in order for the government to adopt sustainable solutions beyond palliatives.
The lawmakers noted that though the current economic situation that pervades the entire Nigeria is mostly global in outlook, Lagos State and its local councils must do more to ameliorate the suffering in the land.
They, therefore, advised leaders and statesmen to join forces with the government and play persuasive roles instead of inciting the people against the government.
Speaker of the Assembly, Dr Mudashiru Obasa, said the situation called for a stakeholders' meeting for the input of everyone, including members of the National and state Assemblies, as well as local council chairmen.
Obasa, while commending Sanwo- Olu for the traders’ money programme through which 15,000 benefitted, said that the current situation was not the President's fault and neither was it the governor's.
He, therefore, directed that the commissioners for Agriculture and Transportation, Ruth Abisola Olusanya and Oluwaseun Osiyemi, respectively, as well as related parastatals and
Ragencies, should be invited to brief the House on their plans to make life more comfortable for the people just as he urged serious sanctions against those who hoard dollars in the country.
The lawmakers, who spoke under ' Matter of Urgent Public Importance', said there was a need for the government to bring out actionable plans to solve the economic problem in the country. ELATEDLY, the Diocesan Bishop of Ibadan North, Rt. Rev. Williams Aladekugbe, yesterday, expressed disappointment with the current state of the nation, emphasizing that what Nigerians are experiencing is not in tandem with the promises made by President Tinubu. Aladekugbe stated this during the commendation service held at All Saints Church, Jericho, Ibadan, in honour of the late former governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, who died last year.
The Bishop described Akeredolu as a courageous man, asserting that his passing signifies not an end but a beginning of transition from mortality to immortality.
The cleric, while acknowledging the Federal Government's efforts in championing socio- economic results, lamented the hardship being experienced by Nigerians.