In this interview with journalists, the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, lays down his solutions to some of the state’s most pressing problems
, his experience with the state’s signage agency, and the planned alliance with other political parties before the election.Question: I want to start with this billboard issue because that has been a source of so much confusion. What really happened between you and LASAA?Let me start from the beginning.
So you will find out that there are no boards on the Third Mainland Bridge because supposedly the agency or company that had been given the rights by federal has taken it over and that meant that LASAA had no business doing what it did. In a democracy, in a proper civilized country, we are expected to claim, demand for compensation for what had happened. And we are also expected to sue LASAA and those agents of them that were caught doing that work.
The other issue is that the ways you address traffic using urban planning and I think I gave the example, that you find that when children are on holidays, there’s less traffic on the road. That means people have to move less. So in terms of urban planning, in terms of good governance, the ideal is that children must be schooling near their homes. So that you are not having to have children, as you see when they come out the children waiting to take free bus, free BRT from here to Ikorodu.
Lagos has lost out in terms of transformational leadership. In the last 20 years, Lagos has not had any transformation in the real sense of the word. We’ve had what we call incremental development, and that is why we like to say we are re-anchoring, re-anchoring Lagos on the performance of the Jakande administration. We are using the democratic dispensations now, we’ll leave out the military. Because what you find is that not much is happening in Lagos.
Another problem with the arrangement is that even the PSPs, the way they are operated is in a very opaque manner, it’s not transparent. Because waste is not something you can measure performance with PSPs. So if, for example, the government says I have 100,000 sweepers or collectors, we don’t know whether it is true or it is not true. Money comes out and they say they have paid 100,000 sweepers.
But in the case of Lagos, it is more than money, it is also about intimidation. Because don’t forget that at the local government level, at the grass root level, most people are private people, they are not government people, they are private people but rely a lot on government.
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