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AS the battles over the 2019 Presidential elections rage in the courts, I had cause to examine governance in the closing years of colonialism, the First and Second Republics and contrast it with the past 35 years of military-civilian rule. I did so using four critical sectors. The first is education which is both a vehicle for development and an instrument for emancipation.
Aware that some products of the free education programme would need to go to tertiary institutions, he tackled the issue of establishing a state university in a novel way that married speed and maximum utilization of funds. There were some new high school structures in Ojo, what Jakande did in the overriding interest of the public, was to take over these structures and in 1983, use them to establish the Lagos State University, LASU, which today, has over 35,000 full-time students.
Today, the health system is so run down that the ruling elite treats even their headache and ear problems in Europe while the upper-middle class treat theirs in India. The mass of the people is virtually abandoned to their fate. Things are now so bad that even giving birth has become a dangerous enterprise.
Lands including one for a terminus at the Yaba Bus stop were acquired and buildings on the proposed mass transit route, marked. The construction was on in 1983 when the military struck, overthrowing the civilian administration.
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