Re: For Politics of Inclusion in Lagos State via thisdaylive
I have just read an article on the back page of Thisday of March 11, 2019 authored by Mr. Femi Falana SAN with the above as its title.
For the sake of those who might have not been aware of what transpired in 2013 which Mr. Falana referred to as “anti-poor policy” of the Lagos State Government, as well as those who might share Mr. Falana’s perception of events, I consider it imperative to respond to Mr. Falana, if only to put the records straight. This is more so that a court of competent jurisdiction – the Federal High Court – had made a definitive pronouncement on the subject in a case which I believe Mr.
As a matter of policy, Lagos State Government caters for the welfare and wellbeing of all residents of the state irrespective of their state of origin. In furtherance of this policy, the state government does its best to ensure that residents are gainfully employed and properly accommodated so that they do not constitute themselves into destitute, vagrant and beggars.
Upon satisfactory completion of the skill acquisition programmes, they were given every reasonable opportunity and assistance to make contacts with members of their families for the purpose of releasing them into their care to ensure that they did not return to the streets. I believe that with the decision of the court given more than four years ago, the issue of what happened in 2013 had finally been settled.
However, the opportunism of some of the political parties was exposed when elected legislators decamped from one party to another without resigning from the legislative houses to renew their mandate. INEC did not insist on internal democracy when a few godfathers engaged in the imposition of candidates to contest elections contrary to the provisions of the Electoral Act.
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