In the pasts days/weeks, I have read in the newspaper and gone
through a number of social medias, the writings and reactions coming from
some personalities like Chief Femi Fani-Kayode amongst among many
others about the act carried out by the Lagos State government in
sending back some indigents back to their hometown/states. It is so sad
seeing the response and reading the thoughts of some individuals who
claim to be 'nationalist'. Chief Femi earlier asserted that the Igbo's
should
not claim Lagos State as their own, while the Igbos responded by
saying we help develop Lagos to where it is today. So I ask, where is
the love and where did we put our cap of nationalism? Are we not all
Nigerians, don't we all have freedom of movement and all that?
In response to Chief Femi, what future does this country hold for the minority? Why are you being tribalistic?
However,
in response to the Igbos, I can categorically say that in terms of
development, Lagos is the most developed State in Nigeria and non of
that is owed to Igbo's or Hausa's. Development as I have garnered is not
something that any other tribe or people can achieve for you or ur race
except you embrace it yourself (That is why Nigeria is still where it
is today)... Well, in as much I will not like to argue on this issue
because it will directly or indirectly be painting me as an ethnocentric
individual. The truth is that, people from other tribe decide to leave
their state to Lagos because they see Lagos to be more industrious than
theirs, if they decide to leave, even the Igbo's, Lagos will still be
industrious. I find giving credit to the Igbo's for the
industrialization of Lagos so irritating and annoying, where will you
den keep the Europeans or whites who troop in day and night to do
business in Lagos... Can we say the Jews are the ones responsible for
the development of America? No! instead we say Americans are responsible
for the development of their state. The questions I would like to ask
is; was Late Awolowo a Legosian, so how come we claim
that he siphon
money into the development of Lagos? We claim that during or after the
Civil war, Igbo's were stripped off of their wealth and Lands collected
from them in the Western parts of Nigeria, well, was same not done to
those Westerners or Northerners who were based in the East as at that
time.
How many streets in the East is named after a Yoruba or Hausa man?
The course we should be channeling all our writing skills and efforts to is the unity of Nigerian and not its division.
One
thing the Igbo's are known for and which I belief warrants the Lagos
State government to send those Anambra individuals packing is that,
instead of employing other people to work for them, especially those
shop owners, they retire to their villages to pick someone who might not
necessarily be a blood brother and they bring that person to Lagos
without taking into cognizance how they will take care and monitor such
person...Let us put on our thinking cap, what will be of a person who
gets this kind of freedom; no guidance, parents or siblings around to
monitor or question your movement. According to what Fashola's
administration said, those people sent back to Anambra were causing
nuisance in the state; either they had no home or lack a person to be
held responsible for their Shortcomings... Lagos is not the only state
clearing its streets.
From The CEO of Glitz Plus Entertainment
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