LAGOS ACCUSES PDP OF VANDALISING PARK

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said the infrastructural and recreational facilities provided at the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, had been vandalised by the People’s Democratic Party.
The PDP held a rally at the park on Friday.
The Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, who inspected the park after the rally, expressed shock at the level of damage done to the park.
The government said the platform and base of the late human rights lawyer’s statue was damaged, while the park railings, the green lawns, and the solar light panels had been vandalised.
Bello said, “Over the years, the Lagos State Government had invested heavily in promoting the greening culture in the state, an effort which has won the state local and international recognition as a green city.”
He called on Lagos residents to be wary of an administration that trampled on people’s right of expression, saying the incident might be the beginning of another ploy to deceive Lagosians in the PDP’s mission to rule the state at all cost.
The commissioner said, “Rather than the PDP government providing good governance to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people, they came to Lagos to harass and deny people who earn a living from maintaining the park, their means of livelihood.
“With this act of vandalism and terrorism, the PDP government again demonstrated its penchant for violence which they are noted for.”
Bello said the PDP was a government that made billions of naira from the Apapa Port, but could not fix the road in the area.
He added that the abandonment of the road and the resulting gridlock had led to daily loss of lives of innocent Nigerians and closure of several businesses in the area.
The commissioner, who said the state government was pained by the sufferings of innocent Lagosians on the road, added that it would cost millions of naira to restore the damaged facilities in the Gani Fawehinmi Park.
Source: Punch