A Lagos cleric, Prophet Lai Bamidele, has described as insensitive, a statement credited to the Power, Works and Housing Minister, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, that Nigerian roads are not bad. Bamidele, who is General Overseer of Glorious End-Time Evangelical Ministries, a church in Fagba, Lagos, said the statement, more than anything else, was an admission of failure on the part of the minister. He was speaking during a sermon to mark a week-long prayer for Nigeria.
“While I do not understand why Fashola, who used to be loved by Lagosians would have to drift suddenly, I will still tell him that his statement is totally wrong. Even starting from places he knows very much, the Sango-Ota roads and the Ikorodu-Odongunyan-Shagamu roads in the Lagos axis, which are federal roads, are nothing to write home about.
“Since he said Nigerian roads are now good under him, let him point to the major road constructions since their administration came into power. And all I can deduce from the minister’s unfriendly statement is that his attitude is symptomatic of the spirit of pride that has come upon many government officials under this administration,” he deplored.
Bamidele, however, commended the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, over his various laudable projects for the two years of his administration, saying, “I can say with boldness and full conviction that what Ambode has achieved in only two years were far, far more than what Fashola achieved in his entire eight years as governor.” He urged the governor not to relent in his efforts at improving the lot of the masses, especially through the various empowerment programmes he had embarked upon.
