Nigerians in general and Lagosians in particular know for sure that most people are sitting on the edge of sanity; and that the line between sanity and the other side is very thin. It cannot be otherwise, giving the enormous pressure of living in the country, the poverty around, the frustration and the hopelessness in the land, among other damning facts.
Represented by his deputy, Dr. Kadiri Hamzat, the governor disclosed this at the second edition of the State’s Mental Health conference with the theme “Responding to the Mental Health Needs of a 21st Century Megacity” while pledging to create a strong network of operations towards addressing mental health in the state.
“There is no doubt that conversations around mental wellbeing have begun to trend in the last few years and there is data to suggest that there is a growing incidence of many of the common mental disorders in our society. It is stated that, one in four Lagosians struggles with clinically diagnosable mood disorders like anxiety or depression, the menace of substance abuse is on the rise, and will likely become a national epidemic if we fail to address it frontally.
Sanwo-Olu captured the mental health situation very well. To this end, the subsequent disclosure by the Commissioner of Health, Lagos State, Prof. Akin Abayomi, while listing the mental health mandate and road map in the state, that the state government is constructing 500-Bed Psychiatric Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre, in Ketu Ejirin is comforting. But poor mental balance of Nigerians will not improve without a holistic approach that will emphasise more of prevention than curative.
Out of this ghastly statistics; some known nut cases (eccentrics) want to run for the Presidency- even with new EFCC charges and known 'final forfeiture'...na waooo.
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