By Charles Kumolu
EKO Foundation has called on Governor Akinwumi Ambode to leverage on the Lagos@50 anniversary and address what it described as the sidelining of some Lagos indigenes in the affairs of the state, noting that indigenes deserve the best in the state.
The group said this at a symposium convened in Lagos to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the state.
A communiqué issued at the end of the forum which was signed by Prof Imran Smith, SAN, and Chief Kunle Uthman, President and Secretary respectively of the group, said Lagos had never been a no man’s land.
The statement partly reads: ‘’Whereas, Lagos State has always taken the lead in the political, economic, and the socio-cultural aspects of development in Nigeria, government has to harness her strength towards improving the lots of the people of the state by eradicating hunger, poverty, illiteracy and disease, adjusting the imbalances in the provision of infrastructure in the state, providing truly affordable shelter for the teeming population and providing job opportunities for the unemployed.”
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