BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU AS THE DEMOLITION MAN
Jidooooooo!!! I am sure this is how his close pallies will be hailing him when he walks in. Jidooooooooo!!! and he too will reply – awon eyanmi. This my favourite governor has been going on a demolition spree for some time now in Lagos. From Argungi, to Ikate and now Mende, houses have been going down with tears and gnashing of teeth from the people. The Mende own, come and see the video as the lady was screaming, “They gave us two hours oooo, two hours oooooo.” As we were looking at that one, another news report came that 80% of Lekki homes don’t have approval. Thank God, me I don’t have any side chick in that zone because I cannot come and accommodate an internally displaced side chick in my house. That one Duchess will just put salt in my BMW engine, I swear. Anyways, before we give Jidoooooo, omo iya olobe horns and paint him as a devil, let’s tarry awhile. Bobo is chasing a legacy in his second term. Bobo has to immortalise himself and as such is constructing landmark projects everywhere, trying to sanitise the state so that when history judges him, it will judge him well. But wait, one snag. Illegal structures everywhere block these developments. So, the question now should be, should he abandon the developmental work that would benefit the over 20 million Lagosians or should he because of the illegality of a few clampdowns and just ease out his tenure? My people, just for one minute, put yourself in his shoes and answer very truthfully. A right of way being blocked by very beautiful illegal estates? Multibillion Naira projects built on drainages, causing flooding? If I were governor, I would rush to the nearest juju man and get a “booster” and personally drive the bulldozers and “scatter” everywhere. Because if I don’t do it, it is these same people that will be pointing at Lekki bridge and be saying see what Fashola did, and then they will point at Oshodi, see what Ambode did, and then they will now point at that Buka near former LIRS building at Alausa and say, see what Sanwo-Olu did. Mbok scatter everywhere abeg. The only thing I will request from Mr. Governor is that he should help us sanitise his land bureau and all those institutions that give out fake approvals. You really cannot be demolishing people’s houses when those within your government are the ones giving out fake approvals, fake inspection permits and fake everything that allows for this. Mr. Governor, start from home. Thank you.