Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the
governor-elect of Lagos state has been charged to ensure the completion
of ongoing projects in Lagos State which Akinwunmi Ambode, the outgoing
governor may not complete because of time.
Giving the advice in
Lagos in a chat with Sunday INDEPENDENT, Prof. Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman
of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) also
advised that Sanwo-Olu should not embark on new projects until he has
completed all the current projects being undertaken by the Ambode
administration.
He also asked Sanwo-Olu to emulate President
Muhammadu Buhari who has commissioned majority of the projects left
behind by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
He said, “My
advice to the governor-elect of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu is that he
should complete all on-going projects in Lagos state, just like what the
federal government is doing now by completing the projects that were
not finished by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
“You don’t
leave uncompleted projects and go and start new ones. Sanwo-Olu should
complete any project that Ambode, the outgoing governor has started
because at the end of the day, government is a continuum.”
Sagay
who said Ambode erred by abandoning some good projects left behind by
his predecessor, Babatunde Fashola such as the Lagos Home Ownership
Mortgage Scheme (Lagos HOMS) project and the Railway project urged
Sanwo-Olu not to toe the same path.
What Ambode did about the
Lagos HOMS project that he abandoned will not speak well for him when
the history of Lagos is written because a lot of Lagosians need
accommodation in the state now and you can see the buildings wasting
away without being completed. To resuscitate them in future will cost a
lot of money.
“You can even see that the Lagos Metroline has
slowed down. Nobody is working there. Since Babatunde Fashola left,
there is hardly any construction going on and this is something that
will have a fantastic and positive impact on Lagos because people can
now drop their cars from Badagry areas right to the centre of Lagos.
“When
they are done, they can take a ride back; pick up their cars at the
rail station and go. This is how it operates in civilised countries. So,
what he did by not completing the Lagos HOMS project is wrong but
nevertheless, I will not want Sanwo-Olu to do the same thing on projects
that Ambode is unable to complete,” stated Sagay.
He continued,
“I don’t believe in that kind of politics because your achievements will
be undermined if you abandoned projects which your predecessors
couldn’t complete. I will advise Sanwo-Olu to complete the ones that
Ambode couldn’t complete. In fact, he shouldn’t start new ones until he
completes the existing ones.”
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