In 1908, the British colonial government (Governor Walter Egerton) proposed the introduction of pipe-borne water in Lagos (at a cost of £130,000). In 1910,the first water works was built.
The British had made Lagos a crown colony and the legacy of that rule began, which was meant to be lasting and enduring.
All Progressive Congress, APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Chatham House, London to market his candidature to the international community where he claimed to have built a modern city that can as well be a country with a booming economy.
He also claimed that he had tamed the Atlantic Ocean.
Tamed the Atlantic ocean?
But do the residents of the city have water to drink the way the colonial masters planned it ?
That is the million naira question pundits are scratching their heads over.
Residents of Lagos still walk on rickety wooden planks across swampy slums, yet they call it a modern city?
In Lagos, there are areas you can’t go to within the same street unless you can swim or are able to convince human porters to carry you on their heads across. For a fee of course.
Residents leave for work as early as four o’clock in the morning for jobs in offices that open their doors at eight o’clock in the morning. Going back home from work in the evening is usually a nightmare due to the world’s worst traffic situation that can keep a commuter on the same spot for four hours or more.
Thus most workers who leave for the office at 4.00 O’clock in the morning, get back home at 12 midnight, catch about two hours sleep and the cycle begins the following day.
One fails to find the intelligence in leadership to make the city livable.
Indeed, Lagos is hell on earth. Perhaps one of the world’s worst cities to live in.
Using it to boast with baffles people who know what living is all about.
Via Greg Abolo
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