Owners and residents of the building at No 39, Market Street, Isale Oja in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State, were full of praises for the effort of Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Kola Egunjobi, who saved their house from total demolition by donating his own house and portion for demolition in the on-going effort by the state government to open up the roads in the area.
They would have lost a large chunk of their house to demolition under the current Lagos State Government road project, but for the generosity of Egunjobi, a chairmanship aspirant for Agege Local Government on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in rhe coming councils elections in the state.
By the specification drawn by the engineers constructing the Market Street road, a space of 4.9metres which fell into the building at No 39 had to be created.
This may have led to near total demolition of the property. However, Egunjobi who lives and owns the house on the other side at No. 41, came to their rescue. He offered to incur 2.4 metre of the measurement and left 2.5 metres to them thereby saving the building from total demolition.
It was an atmosphere of encomium pouring as residents in the area trooped out to show appreciation for the uncommon gesture.
Egunjobi said his action should not be unexpected, noting that he grew up in the area with the people and should stand beside them through thick and thins.
According to him, “I will be offending God and my conscience if I cannot come forward at a time like this to show love to people we have been co-habiting for decades.”
Noting that the government of Akinwunmi Ambode has been doing its best in ensuring good governance for Lagosians, he said the only way to compliment such effort is by supporting government actions in whatever capacity we could.
Egunjobi, who commended the government road projects going on in every parts of the state noting that it would only be good if Lagosians support the government to do more of people’s driven projects.
“Lagos is changing rapidly and we can all see it. We have a governor that has the people at heart.
“The only way we can assist this government is to appreciate what it is doing and show love to the government and to ourselves. It is encouraging that Lagosi is enjoying these massive transformations at this period of recession, when many states cannot even pay salaries. This feat alone is worth praising because you can only experience such under visionary leaders,” he said.
He commended the Lagos House of Assembly under the leadership of its Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa for lending the needed assistance to the executive to make things work for Lagosians. “We have witnessed situations where the state executive and the legislature would be at loggerheads for their entire term and thus impede development with its attendant negative effects on the people they are supposed to lead”.
“We are lucky in Lagos that this is not happening. We have an Executive rhat has been given total support and cooperation fron the Legislature and this has stood us out as the real Centre of Excellence,” Egunjobi stressed.
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