Lagos government deliberately rubbishing Jakande’s achievement', -Group

…plans massive sit out in Alausa over missing Abiola, Fawehinmi’s statues

A civil rights organisation, the Save Lagos Group (SLG) has carpeted Lagos State Government’s decision to erect a new statue in honour of late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo few metres away from where an earlier one had been erected by Ikeja Local Government.

This is coming just as the group has also vowed to organize an indefinite sit out at the Lagos State Government secretariat in Alausa, Ikeja over missing statues of late business mogul turned politician, Chief Moshood Olawale Kashimawo Abiola and late legal luminary and human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAM, SAN.

In a statement issued by the Convener of the Save Lagos Group, Comrade Adeniyi A. Sulaiman in Lagos on Wednesday, the organisation accused successive governments in the state of deliberately rubbishing the achievements of the first executive governor of the state, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakanbde.

They lamented that Jakande has not been accorded his due place in the historical development of the state, saying the latest move by the state government goes further to affirm its belief that indeed, the government utilises dubious criteria for selecting people to be accorded honour.