Former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili on Tuesday demanded from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu evidence that buildings marked to demolition at the Alaba Market is not to revenge against traders of the Igbo extraction.
NPO Reported earlier that the state government had marked some buildings for demolition owing to their distressed nature.
There have been outcry over the exercise.
But the former Minister while calling out Sanwoolu said for the sake of transparency the government must come out to prove critics wrong that it is not out on a vengeance mission.
Making her position known, the former Minister said “The Governor Sanwo-Olu-led government on Friday started the process of removing what it described as distressed buildings in the Alaba International Market in the Ojo Local Government Area”. She wrote.
Saying she has a Policy advice for
The Government that would be helpful for all sides and the public, she wrote, “Mr Governor, please immediately publish details of each destroyed building and the dateline of Due Process rules that were exhausted by your Government before it was “removed”.
“It will be wise for the Governor to take this counsel on Transparency and Full Disclosure since it would provide evidence to the public that this is not a vengeful political attack against the predominant Igbo community in Alaba Market.
Let me also use this opportunity to really again advise the Lagos government and its cheerleaders including Bola Tinubu to be careful in persisting to brew a terribly toxic atmosphere against fellow
citizens since before, during and after the 2023 elections.
Governance by maliciousness does no one any good.
A word is sufficient for only the wiser”
As at the time of filing this report, the Lagos State Government was yet to respond to the former Minister.