Ambode seeks protection for infrastructure
Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has called on the people of the state to co-operate with his administration in protecting the diverse infrastructure that it has provided in the past two years.
Such infrastructure include lamp-posts on major and inner roads designed to light up the metropolis, roads, water channels, bridges, power transformers and electricity cables, bus shelters, modern road medians made of wire mesh and, amongst others, parks and gardens.
The provision of the infrastructure, Ambode said, was at a very astronomical financial cost – with the utmost intent to give the Lagos metropolis a befitting face-lift as, not only a mega city, but as well as a leading African hub where tourism – in a vastly diversified Lagos economy – would thrive appreciably.
Ambode, who spoke through his Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Musiliu Folami, at the pre-ramadan lecture, which took place at the mosque complex, Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, said that at no time, in the fifty-year year history of the state, had so much infrastructure been provided.
The provision of the infrastructure, he said, had conferred on Lagos State what he called the “the leader in infrastructural development in Nigeria.”
A source said that, in recent months, some state governments had been sending their representatives to seek advice on how to replicate the Ambode example in the provision of infrastructure, as active players in physical planning and urban renewal.
The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr. Abdul Haheem Adbul Lateef, appealed, on the occasion, for peace and religious harmony, in the interest of orderly development of the state, while the Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Toyin Awoseyi nodded that, with earnest prayer, Lagos had been the most peaceful in the country. She hoped that the situation would be improved upon within the next one year.
