25th October, 2010
The Peoples Democratic party, PDP, has said it is a saddening development that life is becoming increasingly unbearable for the common man in Lagos.
This according to the party is due to the absence of palliative measures to ease them of the excruciating burden of their severe sufferings; which attained an all-time high, under the present ACN led administration of Lagos State.
A gubernatorial aspirant of the PDP in Lagos State, Barrister Owolabi Salis, who disclosed this, berated the Fashola-led administration of the State, that rather than place the principle of human empowerment as the cornerstone of his ideological philosophy, all it has prided in accomplishing is the mundane decorative planting of flowers and cosmetic painting of edifices all in the vain expectation that oncoming visitors who behold the sight of the flowers, and painting will construe it as a mark of development.
But contrary to the manifestations of these superficial make-beliefs, true development and indeed, a meaningfully enduring one for that matter is accomplished by such measure that addresses man as the epicenter of government attention, in consonance with Awo’s pragmatic philosophy which expressed that since man is the sole causative dynamics in nature, any meaningful development could only come about, through a sustained and intensified scheme of developing man.
It is therefore not surprising that today, small businesses associated with the down-trodden, are subjected to a sustained and intensified strangulation, through the destruction of market without a credible alternative.
This according to him, is indicated in the demolition of Mosafejo market in Oshodi, as a result of which a good number of frustrated victims had died, apart from the teeming numbers of the living, whose world appeared to have come to an end, as there appeared no hope in sight for their recovery, as indicated in the absence of an institutionalized welfare package to take care of the needy as is the vogue in the advanced countries like Europe and America.
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