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EndSARS: Senator canvasses special status for Lagos State
By Modupe Shodeinde
A lawmaker, Solomon Adeola, has insisted that the Federal Government should grant Lagos State a special status and grants.
The Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, in a statement on Sunday canvassed that the state be granted a special status due to the recent destructions of properties on a massive scale and it’s status as the economic hub centre in the country.
The statement by his media aide, Kayode Odunaro, was titled, ‘#EndSARS protest: Senator Adeola renews call for special status and grant for Lagos’.
The Senator stated that over the years, there have been calls to grant the special status on Lagos because of it’s status as a significant economic centre with a large contribution to the economy in Nigeria with many federal infrastructures and huge population of all tribes of Nigeria.
Speaking on the recent EndSARS protest and the accompanying violence which led to the destruction of many public properties in the state, the senator called for an urgent grant from the Federal Government to aid the state in rebuilding and replacing destroyed public facilities of all kinds.
He said, “The issue of special status for Lagos State has again been brought to the front burner following the fallouts of the protest against extra-judicial killings and Police brutality.
“With the magnitude of the destruction of critical infrastructures in Lagos State last week, it is inconceivable that Lagos Government alone can handle the rebuilding of destroyed properties, most of which are for public good.
“It is necessary at this time to state that when Federal Government makes interventions to assist the state like the N1bn per state to assist in efforts aimed at stemming COVID-19, Lagos State should be more favourably treated in view of its status.
“Nigerians boarding all the burns Bus Rapid Transport buses are not asked their state of origins when they board,” he stated.
According to him, the level of destruction of public properties in Lagos state surpasses those in other states and the Lagos State Government cannot shoulder the rebuilding alone.
He implored that such a grant from the Federal Government to the state at this time would benefit Nigeria as a whole.
