By Adeyinka Aderibigbe
Lagos State Government said it has its eyes on the Guinness World Records as it hopes to organise a 10 million human chain, the longest in history, to draw attention to the resilience of the state, the Chief Resilience Officer, Gbolahan Oki has said.
Oki, who noted that the current holder of the record was Bangladesh, which held a five million man-chain in protest of the government, said the state has the intention of organising the event to draw attention to the stresses and shocks that Lagos, the state with the smallest land size is grappling with.
Oki said the Commissioner of the Environment Tunji Bello has bought into the idea and has thrown his full weight behind the Office’s intention to push the cause of resilience to the front burner.
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Oki said: “The human chain first took place in Bangladesh, to draw global attention to the challenges of under-development plaguing that nation and the action went into the Guinness Book of Records for pulling five million human chains. It is the longest human chain. They used that to topple a government. Here in Lagos, we want to use the human chain to create awareness of our resilience as a people, and to tell the whole world that Lagosians are resilient.”
Oki said the Lagos Resilience Office has written the National Population Commission, the Guinness World Records Limited, and a host of sponsors to support its quest of putting the name of Lagos for a good cause.
“What we intend to do was to put the name of Lagos in the Guinness World Records for resilience and we are determined to have between seven to ten million people line up for about three to four hours to showcase our resilience as a people,”
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