Lagos govt demolition approach lacks empathy — Rhodes-Vivour

Labour Party Governorship candidate of Lagos State in the 2023 election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour said the approach of recent demolitions carried out by the Lagos State government lacked empathy.Speaking on the recent demolitions in Mende Estate, Rhodes-Vivour faulted the government’s handling of the demolition of buildings without clinical precision.

“…not a situation where the entire row is damaged, the opposite ones, because of the force, the buildings are beginning to tilt. So, that is my point. I feel like it is extremely important for the government to remember that they are our servants, not our overlords.” He said, “There is a bigger problem in Lagos State and fortunately, with this Mende estate, you see a group of people that were dedicated in communicating with the government, dedicated in getting all their paper work right with the government, over a significant period of time. Now, another interesting part of this is the conversation about the canal and waterflow.

“I said all that to say, for a government that seem to have so much difficulty in implementing constructive means for our canal ways to work properly, for our sewage system to work properly, the zeal with which they destroy when they cannot crate, despite budget being made for it, shows a lot of lack of empathy,” he said.

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