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Why Jonathan must not be re-elected – Fashola

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<img alt="Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN (left) with the All Progressives Congress Vice-Presidential Candidate, Professor Yemi Osibajo (right)  and the Vice-Chairman, Yoruba Tennis Club, Mr. Ayodele Martins (middle) during the Yoruba Tennis Club Christmas Eve Celebration at the Lagos Island on Wednesday, December" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" height="212" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/image6-620x330.jpg" width="400" /> </div>
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                  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, scored the President
 Goodluck Jonathan administration very low and urged Nigerians to vote 
it out in the next general elections.<br />

Fashola stated that change of leadership is expedient at the national
 level because Nigeria is too important both globally and continentally 
to be left in the hands of those who “play politics with the lives of 
her citizens.”<br />

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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Addressing members of the Yoruba Tennis Club and their Island Club 
counterparts at their respective Club Houses in Onikan, Lagos on 
Wednesday, Governor Fashola said the national government, formed by the 
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has failed to provide its most important
 responsibility, which according to him, is the security of life and 
property of citizens and protection of the territorial integrity of the 
nation.<br /><br />
The Governor, who noted that Nigerians handed over a whole country to
 the ruling party in 2011, expressed regrets that the same party is now 
returning to Nigerians to ask for another leadership mandate with only 
part of the country, having lost some parts to insurgents.<br /><br />
“They are returning now to ask for our votes with only a part of the 
country that we gave them because some parts of the country have been 
lost to people we didn’t elect. So, in that most important 
responsibility, they have dropped the ball.”<br /><br />
Governor Fashola, who expressed dismay that the PDP has politicized 
everything, noted that nothing is too much for the party to sloganize 
about.<br /><br />
He accused the federal government of playing politics with the very 
sensitive issue of the more than 200 abducted secondary school girls in 
Chibok in Borno State.<br /><br />
The Governor also said that the PDP-controlled Federal Government has
 also orchestrated about how it made the country “the biggest economy in
 Africa”, wondering why smaller economies could provide electricity for 
their people while the self acclaimed “biggest economy” could keep her 
people in darkness.<br />

“Please ask them why smaller economies could get petrol easily for 
their people and why we have to queue for hours and days to get petrol 
in a biggest economy in Africa,” the Governor said.<br />

He also wondered why the so-called biggest economy in Africa is trying to buy arms from a smaller economy to secure the country.<br /><br />
He pointed out that the nation’s currency, the Naira, is now trading 
for N180 per Dollar while the South African Rand is trading at R11 to 
one United States Dollar.<br /><br />
According to Fashola, what matters is the quality of the life and 
prosperity of the citizens and not the size or number being bandied by 
the PDP-led government.<br /><br />
Governor Fashola tasked the people to figure out the last time the 
President went to present the Annual Budget in the National Assembly, an
 obligation which, according to him, is a constitutional one.<br /><br />
The Governor also said that the Federal Government also played 
politics with the Ebola Virus Disease containment as it almost turned 
the very grave situation into a political trophy.<br />

Conversely, Governor Fashola said, the All Progressives Congress 
controlled Lagos State Government has done well at many fronts including
 the Education, Security, Power and the financial sector in spite of the
 very precarious economic and security situation in the country.</div>

Why Jonathan must not be re-elected – Fashola

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, scored the President Goodluck Jonathan administration very low and...

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At least 3,000
 delegates of the All Progressives Congress will on Thursday (today) 
pick the party’s Lagos governorship candidate.<br />
 The party, in a 
statement by its state chairman, Chief Henry Ajomale, said the voting 
would take place at the Onikan Stadium, Ikoyi instead of its 
headquarters on Acme Road, Ogba.<br />
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 The party assured residents of the state that the exercise would be conducted peacefully and would be transparent.<br />

The statement read in part, “The leadership of the party wishes to 
inform you that accreditation starts by 9am while voting proper kicks 
off by 12 noon. Over 3,000 delegates are expected at the venue for the 
exercise.<br />
 “All logistics have been put in please, including adequate security and traffic management for a hitch-free exercise.”<br />

Twelve aspirants have been given the go-ahead to participate in today’s
 primary. They are: A former Commissioner for Health, Dr. Leke Pitan; a 
former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Olasupo Shasore; 
the current Commissioner for Works, Obafemi Hamzat and a former 
Accountant General of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode.<br />
 Others are the
 Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji; the Senator 
representing Lagos-West senatorial district, Ganiyu Solomon; a former 
aide to Tinubu, Mr. Tayo Ayinde, Mr. Adekunle Disu, Mr. Wahab Tokunbo, 
Mr. Olanrewaju Ope and a former Commissioner for Rural Affairs, Mr. Tola
 Kasali.<br />
 Among the aspirants, Ambode, who is rumoured to have the
 backing of a former Governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and 
Shasore, who is believed to have the backing of Governor Babatunde 
Fashola, are believed to be the most likely to emerge.<br />
 However, sources say Pitan and Solomon are also major contenders in the battle for the ticket.<br />
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3,000 delegates to pick APC Lagos gov candidate

At least 3,000 delegates of the All Progressives Congress will on Thursday (today) pick the party’s Lagos governorship candidate. Th...

Governor Fashola opens register for s*x offenders in Lagos State

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Kudos to Lagos State Governor, Raji Fashola who is the first
Nigerian governor to open a s*x offenders register. He signed an
executive order to provide for compulsory reporting of actual or suspected
child abuse and establishment of a s*x offenders’ register at the State House,
Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, yesterday Dec. 1st. </div>
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He also identified Alimosho,
Kosofe, Agege and Oshodi-Isolo Local Govt as the councils with the
highest cases of S*xual and Gender Based Violence crimes in the state...</div>
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“I will like to tell those perpetrating
the act in these local governments (Alimosho, Kosofe, Agege and Oshodi-Isolo)
to desist now because we would be coming after them. We will combat these
crimes so that they do not become big crimes in the state. Also, in order to
ensure that criminals are monitored, we have created a crime data register
which states everyone who has engaged the criminal justice system of the state,
and we have close to a 100, 000 offenders on that register. And very soon, we
would start deploying people to the data rooms in the police stations across
the state to gather the bio data of offenders including their photographs and
others.</div>
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“This was why we have asked
everyone to register so that before you employ anyone, you will know his track
record. And this is the time for everyone especially women to speak against it.
This is the time for us to have a local enforcement unit; either we call it
state police or whatever name we wish to call it, to protect the women from
frequent abuse from the opposite gender. This is the time for women to rise up
and challenge employers who sets unimaginable targets for their female
employees. These were targets they could not set for men,” he said</div>
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The Lagos State Attorney-General Mr Ade Ipaye added that </div>
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“We
monitoring one hundred and thirteen 113 s*xual violence cases currently at the
High Court. The Team is working actively to ensure prompt prosecution of these
cases. The major aim of the S*x Offenders Monitoring Programme and the Mandated
Reporter policy is to reduce repeat cases by providing names and personal details
of convicted s*x offenders in the State to a central database. The Database
will be accessible to individuals and organizations that need information. For
example, School proprietors who want to recruit can access this Register as a
form of background check.</div>
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“The Mandated Reporter policy will make
it compulsory for all State School Administrators, Counsellors, Teachers,
Social Welfare Officers and any other official of the State Government having
any dealings with children to report any suspected or actual child abuse or
neglect to the Attorney-General’s office. It is envisaged that the Lagos State
S*x Offenders Register will be open and maintained by the Lagos State Ministry
of Justice in partnership with the Lagos State Judiciary, the Nigerian Prisons
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Governor Fashola opens register for s*x offenders in Lagos State

Kudos to Lagos State Governor, Raji Fashola who is the first Nigerian governor to open a s*x offenders register. He signed a...

Governor Babatunde Fashola arrests his own staff in LASAA for driving against traffic (Photo)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The driver reportedly pleaded with the governor but Fashola was said to have been angered by the fact that he expected employees of the state to lead by example.</span></blockquote>
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The man who tamed the "most notorious city" in Nigeria, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Friday arrested an employee ...

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In a piece titled "Meet The Man Who Tamed Nigeria's Most Lawless City", UK <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11184759/Meet-the-man-who-tamed-Nigerias-most-lawless-city.html?fb" target="_blank">Telegraph</a> chronicles how Governor Fashola came into 
office and transformed Lagos and also how he effectively managed the 
Ebola epidermic in the state. Read below...<br />
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He famously claims to be "just doing his job". But in a land where 
  politicians are known for doing anything but, that alone has been enough to 
  make Babatunde Fashola, boss of the vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a very 
  popular man. 
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Confounding the image of Nigerian leaders as corrupt and incompetent, the 
  51-year-old governor has won near-celebrity status for transforming west 
  Africa's biggest city, cleaing up its crime-ridden slums and declaring war 
  on corrupt police and civil servants.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a><br />
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Next month, he will come to London to meet business leaders and Mayor Boris 
  Johnson's officials, wooing investors with talk of how he has spent the last 
  seven years building new transport hubs and gleaming business parks.<br />
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Yet arguably his biggest achievement in office took place just last week, and 
  was done without a bulldozer in sight. That was when <strong>his 
  country was officially declared free of Ebola</strong>, which first spread to <strong>Nigeria</strong> 
  three months ago when Patrick Sawyer, an infected Liberian diplomat, flew 
  into Lagos airport.<br />
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Health officials had long feared that the outbreak, which has already claimed 
  nearly 5,000 lives elsewhere in west Africa, would reach catastrophic 
  proportions were it to spread through Lagos. One of the largest cities in 
  the world, it is home to an estimated 17 million people, many of them living 
  in sprawling shanty towns that would have become vast reservoirs for 
  infection. To make matters worse, when the outbreak first happened, medics 
  were on strike. <br />

Instead, Mr Fashola turned a looming disaster into a public health and PR 
  triumph. Breaking off from a trip overseas, he took personal charge of the 
  operation to track down and quarantine nearly 1,000 people feared to have 
  been infected since Mr Sawyer's arrival.<br />

Last week, what would have been a formidably complex operation in any country 
  came to a successful end, when the World Health Organisation announced that 
  since Nigeria had had no new cases for six weeks, it was now officially rid 
  of the virus.<br />

"This is a spectacular success story," said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO 
  spokesman, who prompted an applause when he broke the news at a press 
  conference in Nigeria <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1521278324" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span>. "It shows that Ebola can be contained.<br />

The WHO announcement was a rare glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola, 
  and even rarer vote of confidence in a branch of the Nigerian government, 
  which was heavily criticised over its response to the abduction of more than 
  200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent group in April. As a columninst 
  in Nigeria's Leadership newspaper put it last week: "For once, we did 
  not underachieve."
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For Mr Fashola's many supporters, it is also yet more proof that the 
  51-year-old ex-lawyer is a future president in the making, a much-needed 
  technocrat in a country dominated far too long by ageing "Big Men" 
  and ex-generals.<br />

"He is the best governor we have ever had," said Odun Babalola, a 
  Lagos-based pension fund portfolio manager. "He's made a lot of 
  progress in schools, railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a lot of 
  politicians, who are corrupt, he's a good administrator."<br />

True, the successful tackling of the Ebola outbreak was not Mr Fashola's doing 
  alone. For a start, the doctor's strike that was under way when Mr Sawyer 
  collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Rather 
  than being taken to one of Lagos's vast public hospitals, where he might 
  have languished for hours and infected numerous fellow patients and staff, 
  he was instead admitted to a private clinic. There he was seen by a 
  sharp-eyed consultant, Stella Adadevoh, who spotted that his symptoms were 
  not malaria as had been first thought.<br />

She then alerted the Nigerian health ministry, and along with other doctors 
  physically restrained Sawyer when he became aggressive and tried to leave 
  the hospital to fly to another Nigerian city. Her quick thinking help stop 
  the virus being spread more widely, but also cost her her life: she caught 
  Ebola herself while treating Mr Sawyer, and has now been recommended for a 
  national award. <br />

But even by the time Mr Sawyer had been isolated, the virus was already on the 
  loose. Knowing that he had passed through one of the busiest airports in 
  west Africa, health officials had to try to track down every single person 
  who had potentially been infected by him, including the other passengers on 
  his flight. The list started at 281 people and grew to nearly 1,000. as 
  eight others whom he turned out to have passed the virus to subsequently 
  died.<br />

That was where Mr Fashola stepped in. He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca, 
  flew home and then helped set up an Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, which 
  spearheaded the mammoth task of monitoring all those potentially infected. A 
  team of 2,000 officials were trained for the task, who ended up knocking on 
  26,000 doors. At one point the governor was being briefed up to ten times a 
  day by disease control experts. He made a point of visiting the country's 
  Ebola treatment centre, a way of communicating to the Nigerian public that 
  they should not panic needlessly.<br />

"Command and control is very important in fighting disease outbreaks, and 
  he provided effective leadership," said Dr Ike Anya, a London-based 
  Nigerian public health expert. "He also said exactly the right things, 
  urging for the need to keep calm. Regardless of whether you support his 
  politics, he has been very effective as a governor and I would be happy to 
  see him stand for leadership."<br />

Born into a prominent Muslim family but married to a Christian, Mr Fashola 
  trained as a lawyer and went into politics after being appointed chief of 
  staff by the previous Lagos governor, Asiwaju Tinubu, a powerful politician 
  often described as Mr Fashola's "Godfather". But while he has long 
  enjoyed the backing of a political "Big Man", is his role as a 
  rare defender of Nigeria's "Little Men" that has won him most 
  support.<br />

Once, while driving through Lagos in his convoy, he famously stopped an army 
  colonel who was driving illegally in one of the governor's newly-built bus 
  lanes, berating him in front of television cameras. <br />

"The bus is for those who cannot afford to buy cars," he said. "I 
  want a zero tolerance of lawlesness, and those who don't want to comply can 
  leave our state."<br />

It was one of the first times Nigerians had ever seen a civil servant 
  confronting a member of the security forces, whose fondness for committing 
  crime rather than fighting it has long contributed to Lagos's legendary 
  reputation for lawlessness.<br />

Armed robberies - sometimes by moonlighting police - used to be so common that 
  few people ventured out after dark. Foreign businessmen would routinely 
  travel with armed escorts, and the few willing to live there would stay 
  mainly in a heavily-guarded diplomatic area called Victoria Island, a rough 
  equivalent to Baghdad's Green Zone. Add to that the suffocating smog, 
  widespread squalor and regular three-hour traffic jams, and it was no 
  suprise that the city had a reputation as one of the worst places in the 
  world to live.<br />

Today, much of the problems remain. But members of the vast Nigerian diaspora 
  say they now notice big changes whenever they go back. "When you return 
  you see an absolute difference - things have improved 100 per cent," 
  said Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian journalist and businessman. "Traffic 
  is not what it used to be, bus lanes have been introduced, and it feels a 
  lot safer. Fashola has been like a Tory mayor for Lagos - he is trying to 
  make it attractive to the well-off." <br />

Styling himself as Lagos's answer to Boris Johnson has not endeared him to 
  everyone. As well as laying plans for a vast offshore business park intended 
  as an "African Dubai", he has accelerated programs to clear the 
  ever-expanding shanty towns, ordering their occupants to return to their 
  homes in Nigeria's poorest east and north. That has led to criticism from 
  human rights groups, although others say it is hard to see how Lagos will 
  ever improve otherwise. "Do I endorse it?" said Mr Nels. "I 
  am afraid it is a bit of a necessary evil."<br />

Another big achievement has been increasing tax revenues, vital in a city 
  where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the fifth-biggest economy in 
  sub-Saharan Africa. Mr Fashola has tried to sweeten the pill by putting up 
  signs on all new infrasructure projects, saying "paid for by your taxes". 
  It is a rare acknowledgement of gratitude in a country where a guaranteed 
  stream of state oil wealth has historically allowed rulers to remain aloof 
  from the ruled.<br />

However, despite being relected with 80 per cent of the vote in 2011, the main 
  hailed as Nigeria's brightest political hope in years is far from guaranteed 
  a life in office. Having served two terms in office already, he is not 
  allowed to run as Lagos governor again. And as a member of a minority tribe 
  and the country's opposition All Progressives Congress, he currently lacks 
  the political backing to go head to head against Goodluck Jonathan in next 
  year's elections.<br />

In the meantime, fresh from ridding Lagos of Ebola, he is focusing on an 
  arguably even tougher challenge, launching a new initiative to stop 
  motorists stuck in traffic jams from blasting their horns all day. As he put 
  it: "If we can overcome Ebola, then we can overcome noise pollution."<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In an Article titled "Meet The Man Who Tamed Nigeria's Most Lawless City", <i><u>UKTelegraph </u></i>Explains
 how Governor Fashola became Gov. and transformed Lagos and also how he 
effectively managed the Ebola epidermic in the state.<br /><br />He famously
 claims to be "just doing his job". But in a land where politicians are 
known for doing anything but, that alone has been enough to make 
Babatunde Fashola, boss of the vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a very 
popular man.<br /><br />Confounding the image of Nigerian leaders as corrupt
 and incompetent, the 51-year-old governor has won near-celebrity status
 for transforming west Africa's biggest city, cleaing up its 
crime-ridden slums and declaring war on corrupt police and civil 
servants.<br /><br />Next month, he will come to London to meet business 
leaders and Mayor Boris Johnson's officials, wooing investors with talk 
of how he has spent the last seven years building new transport hubs and
 gleaming business parks.<br />Yet arguably his biggest achievement in 
office took place just last week, and was done without a bulldozer in 
sight. That was when his country was officially declared free of Ebola, 
which first spread to Nigeria three months ago when Patrick Sawyer, an 
infected Liberian diplomat, flew into Lagos airport.<br />Health officials
 had long feared that the outbreak, which has already claimed nearly 
5,000 lives elsewhere in west Africa, would reach catastrophic 
proportions were it to spread through Lagos. One of the largest cities 
in the world, it is home to an estimated 17 million people, many of them
 living in sprawling shanty towns that would have become vast reservoirs
 for infection. To make matters worse, when the outbreak first happened,
 medics were on strike.<br /><br />Instead, Mr Fashola turned a looming 
disaster into a public health and PR triumph. Breaking off from a trip 
overseas, he took personal charge of the operation to track down and 
quarantine nearly 1,000 people feared to have been infected since Mr 
Sawyer's arrival.<br /><br />Last week, what would have been a formidably 
complex operation in any country came to a successful end, when the 
World Health Organisation announced that since Nigeria had had no new 
cases for six weeks, it was now officially rid of the virus.<br /><br />"This
 is a spectacular success story," said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO spokesman, 
who prompted an applause when he broke the news at a press conference in
 Nigeria on Tuesday. "It shows that Ebola can be contained.<br /><br />The 
WHO announcement was a rare glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola, 
and even rarer vote of confidence in a branch of the Nigerian 
government, which was heavily criticised over its response to the 
abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent group
 in April. As a columninst in Nigeria's Leadership newspaper put it last
 week: "For once, we did not underachieve."<br />For Mr Fashola's many 
supporters, it is also yet more proof that the 51-year-old ex-lawyer is a
 future president in the making, a much-needed technocrat in a country 
dominated far too long by ageing "Big Men" and ex-generals.<br /><br />"He 
is the best governor we have ever had," said Odun Babalola, a 
Lagos-based pension fund portfolio manager. "He's made a lot of progress
 in schools, railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a lot of 
politicians, who are corrupt, he's a good administrator."<br /><br />True, 
the successful tackling of the Ebola outbreak was not Mr Fashola's doing
 alone. For a start, the doctor's strike that was under way when Mr 
Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to be a blessing in 
disguise. Rather than being taken to one of Lagos's vast public 
hospitals, where he might have languished for hours and infected 
numerous fellow patients and staff, he was instead admitted to a private
 clinic. There he was seen by a sharp-eyed consultant, Stella Adadevoh, 
who spotted that his symptoms were not malaria as had been first 
thought.<br /><br />She then alerted the Nigerian health ministry, and along
 with other doctors physically restrained Sawyer when he became 
aggressive and tried to leave the hospital to fly to another Nigerian 
city. Her quick thinking help stop the virus being spread more widely, 
but also cost her her life: she caught Ebola herself while treating Mr 
Sawyer, and has now been recommended for a national award.<br /><br />But 
even by the time Mr Sawyer had been isolated, the virus was already on 
the loose. Knowing that he had passed through one of the busiest 
airports in west Africa, health officials had to try to track down every
 single person who had potentially been infected by him, including the 
other passengers on his flight. The list started at 281 people and grew 
to nearly 1,000. as eight others whom he turned out to have passed the 
virus to subsequently died.<br /><br />That was where Mr Fashola stepped in.
 He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca, flew home and then helped set 
up an Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, which spearheaded the mammoth 
task of monitoring all those potentially infected. A team of 2,000 
officials were trained for the task, who ended up knocking on 26,000 
doors. At one point the governor was being briefed up to ten times a day
 by disease control experts. He made a point of visiting the country's 
Ebola treatment centre, a way of communicating to the Nigerian public 
that they should not panic needlessly.<br /><br />"Command and control is 
very important in fighting disease outbreaks, and he provided effective 
leadership," said Dr Ike Anya, a London-based Nigerian public health 
expert. "He also said exactly the right things, urging for the need to 
keep calm. Regardless of whether you support his politics, he has been 
very effective as a governor and I would be happy to see him stand for 
leadership."<br /><br />Born into a prominent Muslim family but married to a
 Christian, Mr Fashola trained as a lawyer and went into politics after 
being appointed chief of staff by the previous Lagos governor, Asiwaju 
Tinubu, a powerful politician often described as Mr Fashola's 
"Godfather". But while he has long enjoyed the backing of a political 
"Big Man", is his role as a rare defender of Nigeria's "Little Men" that
 has won him most support.<br /><br />Once, while driving through Lagos in 
his convoy, he famously stopped an army colonel who was driving 
illegally in one of the governor's newly-built bus lanes, berating him 
in front of television cameras.<br /><br />"The bus is for those who cannot 
afford to buy cars," he said. "I want a zero tolerance of lawlesness, 
and those who don't want to comply can leave our state."<br /><br />It was 
one of the first times Nigerians had ever seen a civil servant 
confronting a member of the security forces, whose fondness for 
committing crime rather than fighting it has long contributed to Lagos's
 legendary reputation for lawlessness.<br /><br />Armed robberies - 
sometimes by moonlighting police - used to be so common that few people 
ventured out after dark. Foreign businessmen would routinely travel with
 armed escorts, and the few willing to live there would stay mainly in a
 heavily-guarded diplomatic area called Victoria Island, a rough 
equivalent to Baghdad's Green Zone. Add to that the suffocating smog, 
widespread squalor and regular three-hour traffic jams, and it was no 
suprise that the city had a reputation as one of the worst places in the
 world to live.<br /><br />Today, much of the problems remain. But members 
of the vast Nigerian diaspora say they now notice big changes whenever 
they go back. "When you return you see an absolute difference - things 
have improved 100 per cent," said Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian 
journalist and businessman. "Traffic is not what it used to be, bus 
lanes have been introduced, and it feels a lot safer. Fashola has been 
like a Tory mayor for Lagos - he is trying to make it attractive to the 
well-off."<br /><br />Styling himself as Lagos's answer to Boris Johnson has
 not endeared him to everyone. As well as laying plans for a vast 
offshore business park intended as an "African Dubai", he has 
accelerated programs to clear the ever-expanding shanty towns, ordering 
their occupants to return to their homes in Nigeria's poorest east and 
north. That has led to criticism from human rights groups, although 
others say it is hard to see how Lagos will ever improve otherwise. "Do I
 endorse it?" said Mr Nels. "I am afraid it is a bit of a necessary 
evil."<br /><br />Another big achievement has been increasing tax revenues, 
vital in a city where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the fifth-biggest 
economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Mr Fashola has tried to sweeten the pill 
by putting up signs on all new infrasructure projects, saying "paid for 
by your taxes". It is a rare acknowledgement of gratitude in a country 
where a guaranteed stream of state oil wealth has historically allowed 
rulers to remain aloof from the ruled.<br /><br />However, despite being 
relected with 80 per cent of the vote in 2011, the main hailed as 
Nigeria's brightest political hope in years is far from guaranteed a 
life in office. Having served two terms in office already, he is not 
allowed to run as Lagos governor again. And as a member of a minority 
tribe and the country's opposition All Progressives Congress, he 
currently lacks the political backing to go head to head against 
Goodluck Jonathan in next year's elections.<br /><br />In the meantime, 
fresh from ridding Lagos of Ebola, he is focusing on an arguably even 
tougher challenge, launching a new initiative to stop motorists stuck in
 traffic jams from blasting their horns all day. As he put it: "If we 
can overcome Ebola, then we can overcome noise pollution."</span></span> </div>

Read what a Popular UK News Website wrote about Our Governor Fashola

In an Article titled "Meet The Man Who Tamed Nigeria's Most Lawless City", UKTelegraph Explains how Governor Fasho...

Okada Mechanics Protest Over Illicit Confiscation Of Bikes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong>The mechanics under the aegis of Federal Motorcycle and  Generator Mechanical Association of Nigeria (FEDMGMAN) stormed Babatunde  Fashola's Office to express their displeasure over arrest and  impoundment of no fewer than 1,000 motorcycles from their workshops.</strong><br />  <br /> The protesters paralysed activities at Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja,  claiming that the policemen, while enforcing the Road Traffic Law 2012,  would storm workshops where motorcycles were being repaired and impound  any 'okada' they see.<br />  <br /> The Road Traffic Law 2012 was enacted by the state government to return sanity to roads in the state.<br />  The motorcycle (okada) mechanics stormed the Governor's Office at  about 4:00 pm, chanting several anti-government songs and displaying  placards with inscriptions such as "Enough of police harassment,"<br /> <br /> "Police leave us alone," "We are doing our legitimate business,"  "Repairing okada is our legitimate source of income," among others.<br /><a name="more"></a><br />  <br /> A letter to state governor Babatunde Fashola, signed by the National  President of FEDMGMAN, Ganiyu Jimoh, says: "Following the ban on okada  in Lagos, officers of the Nigerian Police, Lagos State Command have been  arresting my members and impound any okada found within their  workshops.<br />  <br /> "We understand that okada riders are banned from plying some specific  roads in Lagos but certain roads were exempted by the law. Okadas  plying these exempted roads go through wear and tear, hence they need  repair. When these Okadas are brought to our workshops for repair,  policemen come to the workshop and impound any okada found within the  premises."<br />  <br /> According to secretary of FEDMGMAN, Jimoh Sulaymon, they embarked on the protest to expose the illicit act of the policemen.<br />  <br /> The solicitor to FEDMGMAN, Mr. Segun Ayodele, lamented that several  motorcycles had been impounded by policemen in workshops under the  pretense that they were enforcing the road traffic law 2012.<br />  Superintendent Wale Ajao addressed the protesters saying that they  should come back in another fortnight to meet with the governor.<br /> </div>

Okada Mechanics Protest Over Illicit Confiscation Of Bikes

The mechanics under the aegis of Federal Motorcycle and Generator Mechanical Association of Nigeria (FEDMGMAN) stormed Babatunde Fashola...

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