LegendHero:


Africa is the only continent that doesn't accommodate divergent views. You keep regurgitating the rubbish asslicking line everytime without critical assessment of situations.

If I had ever received any penny from anyone, then posterity will judge me.

The irony. Saying that roads cannot be repaired because of "rains" is your own definition of critical assessment? So... countries where their roads are constantly rehabilitated and fixed do not have rains falling in them at all?

Even if any quick fix will be done, is filling large pot holes with gravel stones the way to go? Talking about a state with heavy IGR and daily illegal taxation by the transport union in Lagos??

Again, keep defending your paymasters at the cost of your sanity. Karma never forgets.

Bacteriologist:


Typical Nigerian mentality. I'm safe so whatever happens to anyone else is not my business.

Does it not occur to you that good roads is part of what makes the economy better for us all? Good roads make possible less transport time and zero costs of repairing damaged motor parts which usually drives up sales prices. Less hours wasted in traffic means more hours go into productivity. Accidents are effectively reduced, increasing the ease of business and general quality of life for everybody.

Even if you own a helicopter, good roads is what any one who wants progress should clamour for.

Do not be penny wise and pound foolish.

So correct.

And to add to your statement...people don't realize that the more cars and trucks are stationary on an already bad and congested roads the more the air people breath in that city is heavily polluted from dirty and stale carbon monoxide and fumes coming from bad engines.

Beautyaddy:


So correct.

And to add to your statement...people don't realize that the more cars and trucks are stationary on an already bad and congested road the more the air people breath in that city is heavily polluted from dirty carbon monoxide and fumes coming from bad engines.

Tell me about it, Beautyaddy. Indeed the two most important infrastructure for any society that wants to move forward is good roads and electricity. These two things are INSTANT transformers of the quality of life of their IMMEDIATE environment. ANYWHERE.

1. Good roads.
2. Stable power.

These two keep production costs on a low and the ripple effects of this simple phenomenon is in the hundreds.

Even a poor country with these two amenities will have the demographics and stats of a first world nation. Sadly, common sense is not common.

Bacteriologist:


The irony. Saying that roads cannot be repaired because of "rains" is your own definition of critical assessment? So... countries where their roads are constantly rehabilitated and fixed do not have rains falling in them at all?

Even if any quick fix will be done, is filling large pot holes with gravel stones the way to go? Talking about a state with heavy IGR and daily illegal taxation by the transport union in Lagos??

Again, keep defending your paymasters at the cost of your sanity. Karma never forgets.

Are you sure you quoted the right person?

First of all, I am currently not in Nigeria and for you to keep mentioning paymasters speaks volume coz you thought everyone online is a broke guy.

Secondly, I just told the other guy I replied that while you can blame Sanwo-Olu for the bad roads, we should give governors benefit of the doubt because they are not robot. How can you expect a governor to fix all Lagos roads in just 7-8 month in power?
We have several hundreds of bad roads in Lagos, some of them need palliative care by just fixing potholes, some need total reconstruction, and etc.

Sanwo Olu set up some of the LSPWC to fix those roads that need palliative coz Lagosians are complaining and its not possible to fix all road at once. Even if you are gonna fix the several hundred road once, will they all be completed in 8 months?

In New Jersey here, to construct a new 4-lane highway it cost $4 million per mile, But all we have ever do is to compare ourselves to developed countries not knowing that Naija is totally broke and we are just celebrating mediocrity.

Our problem is the rubbish fixation that we are extremely rich, and that is why we believe the ridiculous promises from politicians like the fake change campaign APC used in 2015.

My argument is that this man (Sanwo Olu) created some people to fix these things, I know they might be slow but its not that good to condemn a governor totally for the period of just 7month in power.

LegendHero:


Are you sure you quoted the right person?

First of all, I am currently not in Nigeria and for you to keep mentioning paymasters speaks volume coz you thought everyone online is a broke guy.

Secondly, I just told the other guy I replied that while you can blame Sanwo-Olu for the bad roads, we should give governors benefit of the doubt because they are not robot. How can you expect a governor to fix all Lagos roads in just 7-8 month in power?
We have several hundreds of bad roads in Lagos, some of them need palliative care by just fixing potholes, some need total reconstruction, and etc.

Sanwo Olu set up some of the LSPWC to fix those roads that need palliative coz Lagosians are complaining and its not possible to fix all road at once. Even if you are gonna fix the several hundred road once, will they all be completed in 8 months?

In New Jersey here, to construct a new 4-lane highway it cost $4 million per mile, But all we have ever do is to compare ourselves to developed countries not knowing that Naija is totally broke and we are just celebrating mediocrity.

Our problem is the rubbish fixation that we are extremely rich, and that is why we believe the ridiculous promises from politicians like the fake change campaign APC used in 2015.

My argument is that this man (Sanwo Olu) created some people to fix these things, I know they might be slow but its not that good to condemn a governor totally for the period of just 7month in power.

It was painfully obvious that you were speaking from a position of outright ignorance. I just didn't think you were resident in a saner clime and was out of the state.

It is easy to defend Nigerian leaders from diaspora and you are not an exception. That said, if you are a leader and your delegates for a project have failed to do the needful, are you supposed to make silly excuses like "the weather is responsible" or "I'm just a few months in" or get a different set of competent hands on the job? I'm hoping you will choose the latter.

How many 4 lane 'highways' are in Lagos? I am sure I can count them on my fingers. And yes, the finances of Lagos state are ADEQUATE enough to cover the costs of rehabilitating these roads. The illegal taxation of NURTW in 6months could in fact do the job.

And lastly the problem is not that the roads aren't being repaired FAST enough, the problem is that they are not being REPAIRED at all. Did you get that? The roads are getting worse on a hourly basis and there is no solution in sight to end this madness. Jesus Christ! Get a grip and stop defending the indefensible.

Bacteriologist:


It was painfully obvious that you were speaking from a position of outright ignorance. I just didn't think you were resident in a saner clime and was out of the state.

It is easy to defend Nigerian leaders from diaspora and you are not an exception. That said, if you are a leader and your delegates for a project have failed to do the needful, are you supposed to make silly excuses like "the weather is responsible" or "I'm just a few months in" or get a different set of competent hands on the job? I'm hoping you will choose the latter.

How many 4 lane 'highways' are in Lagos? I am sure I can count them on my fingers. And yes, the finances of Lagos state are ADEQUATE enough to cover the costs of rehabilitating these roads. The illegal taxation of NURTW in 6months could in fact do the job.

And lastly the problem is not that the roads aren't being repaired FAST enough, the problem is that they are not being REPAIRED at all. Did you get that? The roads are getting worse on a hourly basis and there is no solution in sight to end this madness. Jesus Christ! Get a grip and stop defending the indefensible.

Well you made your point. We are actually not saying different things just that the approach is quite different.

I can feel your grieviances and trust me I did more than you in criticizing our leaders until recently that I reviewed Nigeria leaders and the followers that I stopped expending too much energy on Nigeria matters.

One thing is for government to deploy funds, the other things is for workers to carry out the work with integrity. We have been fixing Lagos-Ibadan expressway since over 30 years and yet they keep fixing it almost every year due to damages. You will hear today that billions are allocated to fix roads and every year we still come back to the same problem. Government inflates contracts, Workers embezzle cements and other construction materials, which most times create substandard roads that do not meet the test of time.

I am not defending Sanwo-Olu, the reason why I replied initially on this thread is because of the average Nigerian attitude to expecting too much within a short time. How do you measure a governor capabilities or condemn then within 90days like we always do. That is rubbish coz I haven't seen it even in a developed country where they easily complete the construction of every roads within 3 months.

I addressed one aspect of the topic but you are trying to push the narratives that I do not care. I also gave the instance of budgetary allocation of roads in developed countries that we love to compare ourselves to. The New York police budget alone is $5.58 billion and the whole Nigerian budget is something like $29 Billion.

doctokwus:
When Ambode was governor,even if he didn't construct the roads,PWD workers were regularly patching roads with concrete and tar.
I am not exaggerating but I have not witnessed Lagos roads as bad as they have ever being.
This was the same terrible condition of the roads during Tinubu's era,till Fashola came with his beautification agenda.
This mentally challenged man that calls himself a governor has been exhibiting all the attributes of someone that will fail dramatically.
Refuse heaps are now so bad that I saw that a big church denomination had to hire a refuse truck to evacuate refuse in some parts.
Also saw VIO on the roads about 2 weeks ago.

So far so good.
He has no blue print or agenda for Lagos.

In fact Ambode was better than him within 100days in office.

He is making tonblv that he was mentally derailed as been postulated by Ambode.




Lagos roads has never been worst as this

doctokwus:
When Ambode was governor,even if he didn't construct the roads,PWD workers were regularly patching roads with concrete and tar.
I am not exaggerating but I have not witnessed Lagos roads as bad as they have ever being.
This was the same terrible condition of the roads during Tinubu's era,till Fashola came with his beautification agenda.
This mentally challenged man that calls himself a governor has been exhibiting all the attributes of someone that will fail dramatically.
Refuse heaps are now so bad that I saw that a big church denomination had to hire a refuse truck to evacuate refuse in some parts.
Also saw VIO on the roads about 2 weeks ago.

You are actually mentally challenged yourself to have mistaken Ambode doing any maintenance work on the roads via PWC workers. The bad roads everywhere are as a result of the backlogs of unmaintained roads since Ambode came into the picture. Ambode only took on humongous inflatable projects from which he could steal heavily from and he made sure he commissioned all before he left office regardless of the fact that these projects were anything close to completion. Hence he tied up loose ends of his loots. That guy should be in jail for looting by now, yet you'll hear Lagosians playing the politics card in his defense. The question is: Did Ambode hand over the type of Lagos he met to Sanwolu (who obviously does not understand leadership or governance just like Ambode)?

Bacteriologist:


Typical Nigerian mentality. I'm safe so whatever happens to anyone else is not my business.

Does it not occur to you that good roads is part of what makes the economy better for us all? Good roads make possible less transport time and zero costs of repairing damaged motor parts which usually drives up sales prices. Less hours wasted in traffic means more hours go into productivity. Accidents are effectively reduced, increasing the ease of business and general quality of life for everybody.

Even if you own a helicopter, good roads is what any one who wants progress should clamour for.

Do not be penny wise and pound foolish.

Are you normal? Take your drugs next time before you reply me. For you are a mad man with what you wrote. Can you imagine. I made my comment without mentioning people. If you want to throw shades go to twitter. Eranko

Lagos state is a disgrace

Sir
I Strongly disagree.the governor indeed set up a committee to look into roads but from all indications it just for the gram and twitter

Personally I extend the blame to Ambode who messed up Lagos.That man should be queried for throwing us back to the 90s

Perhaps they should ask Fashola to come back even for a year

On the contrary,what's the big deal in fixing roads.we just have issues in this country

Good roads shouldn't be what we discussing in this century.Its saddening to know


I weep.





quote author=LegendHero post=82937179]

Are you sure you quoted the right person?

First of all, I am currently not in Nigeria and for you to keep mentioning paymasters speaks volume coz you thought everyone online is a broke guy.

Secondly, I just told the other guy I replied that while you can blame Sanwo-Olu for the bad roads, we should give governors benefit of the doubt because they are not robot. How can you expect a governor to fix all Lagos roads in just 7-8 month in power?
We have several hundreds of bad roads in Lagos, some of them need palliative care by just fixing potholes, some need total reconstruction, and

kemmylove101:

Then stop complaining if you cant sacrifice anything for your country

Why should he sacrifice? He no dey pay tax? Its not his duty to repair the road but the duty of the government, or government should quit collecting vat and tax and other revenue, lets be repairing the roads our selves

Guys, use this

Ladipodeal:


Sorry for your car Bro.

You don't have to insult me. Do you drive on twitter?!!

I do not know what you mean by driving on Twitter, but if you had gone through what I did go through yesterday (and I am not the only one) you would agree your comments were very irritating.

Shibaraba:

Are you normal? Take your drugs next time before you reply me. For you are a mad man with what you wrote. Can you imagine. I made my comment without mentioning people. If you want to throw shades go to twitter. Eranko

Tell me again how lonely it must be up there on your high horse. It is called "SOCIAL MEDIA." If you don't want people to interact with your posts on social media then it's time to throw away your phone.