Adeyomi Adelokiki

Born in fire, rising in truth.
✊🏾 Lagos-based. Change-driven. Purpose-fueled.

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

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[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@GRVlagos Imagine if Lagos had spent the last decade formalizing the informal waste sector instead of treating waste pickers as an afterthought. Cleaner streets, more jobs, better recycling, and less pressure on government resources. Vision matters.

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

Imagine if Lagos had spent the last decade formalizing the informal waste sector instead of treating waste pickers as an afterthought. Cleaner streets, more jobs, better recycling, and less pressure on government resources. Vision matters.

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

In 2008, I published my thesis titled Traditional Revolution: Formalizing the Informal, examined the role of waste pickers and scavengers in Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt, and how they could be integrated into a modern waste management system rather than treated as a nuisance.

The paper argued that waste pickers form the foundation of an informal recycling network that already performs an important public service. And Instead of leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and exclusion, I proposed a framework that formalizes their activities, creates economic opportunities, improves collection efficiency, and reduces the burden on government.

More than a decade later, the same principles remain relevant. Sustainable solutions require planning, inclusion, and execution, not endless excuses.

Sadly, the environmental mess confronting our state is the result of policy failures and poor implementation. It is also the consequence of poor imagination and a lack of leadership.
You can explore the thesis at the link below.
https://t.co/rBnXSCzwtg

P.S. we have been passionate about #ourlagos for a very long time.

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

The conversation on flooding cannot start and end with climate change. Lagos needs competent planning, proper drainage maintenance and infrastructure upgrades.

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour Media ®. @GRVLagos_Media]

"A leader's first reaction is to solve problems, Why are you angry at people for complaining that they're experiencing a smelly Lagos? You should be figuring out the cause and solutions. Lagos is Smelling, Let's Fix it."

-Hon. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour

#OurLagos

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@GRVLagos_Media The conversation on flooding cannot start and end with climate change. Lagos needs competent planning, proper drainage maintenance and infrastructure upgrades.

[Kunle fafunwa @KFafunwa]

The problem is not that Lagos has waste. Every major city has waste. The problem is that Lagos still struggles to manage it efficiently despite years of promises and huge budgets.

[oludare daniel @DanielOlud73812]

A city becomes truly modern when it solves social problems, not when it simply moves them out of sight.

[Kunle fafunwa @KFafunwa]

@GRVlagos The problem is not that Lagos has waste. Every major city has waste. The problem is that Lagos still struggles to manage it efficiently despite years of promises and huge budgets.

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

Your Excellency, unsurprisingly, this statement is an admission of failure, not a solution.

Lagosians do not need periodic emergency evacuations of mountains of refuse. What they need is a functional waste management system that prevents waste from accumulating in the first place.

For years, residents have endured overflowing dumps, uncollected refuse, blocked drainage channels, and worsening environmental conditions despite billions of naira allocated to environmental management.

The fact that you now have to “direct an immediate scale-up” after waste has already overwhelmed communities is an utter failure of leadership.

Indeed, Lagos generates over 13,000 tonnes of waste daily today, just as it did yesterday, last month, and last year. This is not a surprise. It is a known reality that should be planned for through efficient collection, waste sorting, recycling infrastructure, transfer stations, waste-to-energy investments, and transparent performance management of operators.

Like your commissioner, you cannot continue to shift responsibility to citizens to “bag their waste properly” when many communities are left without reliable and affordable waste collection services. Rightly, Citizens have a responsibility to dispose of waste properly, but government has an even greater responsibility to provide the infrastructure and systems that make proper disposal possible.

Lagos cannot continue operating reactive clean-up exercises and public relations statements whenever refuse piles become impossible to ignore.

Lagos deserves a modern, accountable, and sustainable waste management system: one that measures success not by the number of trucks deployed after a crisis, but by the absence of the crisis itself.

Again, Your Excellency, after seven years in office, why is Lagos still battling a problem that should have been solved through competent planning, execution, and oversight?

I guess the answer is obvious: if e didn’t dey, e didn’t dey.
#OURLAGOS

[Kunle fafunwa @KFafunwa]

Never!!!

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@KFafunwa For where

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

Your PVC is more than a card. It's your voice, your power and your opportunity to influence the future. Don't wait until election season to start looking for it.

[Ayodele Lawal Adio @iamayolawal]

It’s really amazing how enduring some of the ideas @GRVlagos has campaigned on since 2019. He’s now arguably the most consequential opposition figure in Lagos since Funso Williams.

This is him talking about the BRT lane with @Jollz in the video below.

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@Ifeanyiobidient GRV na my person. Come 2027!

[Light Vendor💡 @Ifeanyiobidient]

GBADEBO RHODES-VIVOUR will win the 2027 Lagos Gubernatorial Election.

Repost if you will VOTE HIM.

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@GRVLagos_Media The strongest communities are built when people defend what is right, even when they have nothing personal to gain.

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

The strongest communities are built when people defend what is right, even when they have nothing personal to gain.

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour Media ®. @GRVLagos_Media]

"Don't think that just because fire is not burning in your house that it won't come to you, Always push for fairness and Justice" -Hon. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour

If only the Former Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu had listened to GRV

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@GRVLagos_Media The lesson here is simple: stand against injustice when it affects others, not only when it affects you.

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@GRVLagos_Media Congratulations @GRVlagos

[Adeyomi Adelokiki @yomcy11]

@GRVLagos_Media @PodiumReporters This primary victory marks a significant moment. Congratulations to GRV and everyone who believed in the journey.