It is impossible to live without failing at something.. unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all... In which case- you failed by default"
-J.K Rowling
This thing reminded me of a time before I joined Emirates airline some years ago. We invited one of their executive to Lagos. I was working at Arik Air at the time. It happened that the day the EK guy came to visit Lagos airport, the internet was down and the entire airport immediately moved to manual boarding passes.
The EK man was like 'WOW'!!! He was blown away at the efficiency of Nigerian aviation. He said when this happens in Dubai at that time, the entire flights get delayed because they were not trained to handle this kind of operations. He went back to Dubai to tell them how much he learnt from his time in Nigeria.
When I joined Emirates, we started a project called 'Offline DCS'. This was a direct response to operational efficiency when things like this happens at the airport. So, if and when the systems break down, no flights get delayed. Everything continues as normal.
The Public Enlightenment Movement has visited and inspected ongoing works on the massive Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway project. Spanning 1,068km under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, this transformative North-South corridor is advancing rapidly with earthworks, pavement construction, bridges, and key structures, set to revolutionize connectivity from Sokoto through multiple states down to Badagry, Lagos.
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@RidwanuLlah Gej can’t contest… His base SS is firmly in Pbats pocket..
He knows better than to launch without the support at least a governor from his region..
@BlehisBack Debates are just vibes with a podium tbh.
If you really want to know who gets the economy, go watch these same candidates answer questions at the NESG Summit. Different energy entirely.
@tkb417 The conundrum with Atiku/obi ticket is the idea that the two candidates can combine forces..
Most of obi supporters would rather sit out than vote for an atiku presidency..
@yojora@sepril23NG The whole value of waste disposal is too complex for it to be devolved to local govt.. I captured it thoroughly in my article;
https://t.co/bKpjIxo5m3
Did Lagosians come out yesterday for environmental? YES!
Did LAWMA come around to pack the wastes? NO, as usual.
Did the rain push everything back into the gutters? Yes.
Will Lagos continue to smell if we don’t manage our Waste logistics well? Yes.
Is Tokunbo working? Yes, but not smartly.
Instead of @followlasg and @jidesanwoolu to call local politicians and members of the GAC, whose PSP companies have failed woefully to collect and treat waste, to order, they thought the best thing g to do was to reintroduce a failed military era policy. Jokers.
Everyone, who isn't blinded by politics, knows the main reason waste management is a mess in Lagos is because of these untouchable.
Deal with this cabal and 80% of the problem will be removed.
I cannot believe I will agree with @GRVlagos a.k.a Chinedu but here we are.
I have a lot of issues with the entire "dedicate a day for sanitation" charade.
1. It is a military invention that should not find its way into our democracy. It is lazy and under productive.
2. I have always said that @tokunbo_wahab is performative and he is the poster boy for low IQ politicians we have in Yorùbáland. I hear him rather arrogantly ask "what will it cost us to stay home for just two hours". When an idea is kindergarten, retorts like this are not uncommon.
3. A complete lack of critical thinking, learning from the current social behavior of Lagosians will always make this sanitation exercise look like a terrible joke.
I have wondered about this sanitation exercise and was waiting for the "aha!" moment when it will make sense. I have listened, read, waited... nothing makes sense.
Aside from the disruption of social and economic activities ( these people don't understand enterprise as seen in their behavior towards businesses as far as regulation is concerned but that is a topic for another day), I was expecting key pre exercise activities.
1. What is the advertised collection timeline for generated waste during the exercise?
2. Which @Lawma_gov PSP is responsible for what kind of waste? What is the deadline and penalty for PSPs who don't pick up waste within the timeline?
3. Are there standard bagging procedures that have been taught to residents? Is there even a bag? Why is the state not recommending and or supplying standard bags?
4. If most areas wait for weeks on end to for @Lawma_gov to pick up accumulated waste, what assurances are there that this won't be same of the same or possibly even worse since the rains are approaching?
5. Who will clean the Canals? What long term plan is there for our drainages? Is there a State wide plan to ensure waste does not get into our drainages and Canals?
6. What's the long term plan for effective community penalties? If We tested this in court and we win, can we penalize entire communities with the slightest amount of unbagged and visible waste?
7. Our parks and markets have been observing this parochial exercise in the last 30 decades and they remain the dirtiest places in Yorùbáland. How does this myopic exercise help change behavior statewide? What happened to the LGs and the wọlé wọlé?
Yes they extort and harass but we can deploy them to good daily use.
8. I hear @tokunbo_wahab say they have spent one year thinking about this. I am saddened. The result of all that thinking is restricting residents for 120 mins? That's all? And then as typical low IQ politicians they added "incentives" for the cleanest location! How juvenile and 19th centurisque!!
9. I will participate in the exercise in Ṣómólú wholeheartedly because my government said so, but I am disappointed but not surprised about the quality of ideas coming from @followlasg.
A city of 20 million plus people can think better than this. I agree with Chinedu we need to rethink this entire sordid sanitation arrangement.
Yes it's just Two hours but it is also equals about 0.003% of GDP lost.
That's a lot!
Is it too much for LAWMA to pack dirts as at when due? They have been failing terribly. After cleaning our environment on dedicated days, what do we do to the wastes? Eat it?