The African Action Congress (AAC) on Tuesday condoled with the victims and people of Abule Ado in Amuwo Odofin Local Government over the explosions that killed several people and destroyed properties in its wake.
The party, through a statement issued by its Lagos State Chairman, Kunle Wizeman Ajayi and Elias Ozikpu, Publicity Secretary, respectively, said the tragedy was yet another in the dark history of the Nigerian people.
It said: “The gas-cause leaves much to behold as the remnants and influence of the attack shows more of a bomb effect. And this brings to the fore why we need a system that will put peoples’ lives more, before profit, whether privately and publicly.
“Lagos AAC believes that what we need to focus now is to understand where the rains started to beat us, as well as what should be done to prevent these disasters. But, in the immediate, we disagree completely with the approach of the Jide Sanwo-Olu-led state government on the aftermath of the Abule Ado tragedy.”
AAC maintained that the Lagos State government had continued what the party termed “its usual charades of snapping pictures to show President Buhari and filming same for public consumption.
“Can’t the Lagos government have a much more digital way of exhibiting the whole scenery? Then, why can’t the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Services be brought in to collaborate?
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“Then how could a multi-trillion naira state like Lagos degenerate to the extent of setting up fund raising of N2billion? A serious government doesn’t need such launching to intervene concretely.”
The Lagos AAC demanded that the N2billion should be immediately produced from the surplus in the government’s purse, rather than what it termed “hoodwinking the unsuspecting and poverty stricken public into fundraising for what should be an exclusive responsibility of the very rich Lagos State government.”
It added: “We also call for a robust, democratic and genuine rebuilding immediately. We also want to warn that this disaster should not be doubled with systemic land grabbing as government and its cronies are used to doing overtime.
“Cock and bull stories of ‘Lagos Master Plan’ and all that land grabbing preliminaries should never come up in this case.
“Finally, we posit that Nigerians need to start preparing for a total overhauling that would drastically reduce to the barest minimum preventable hazards as that of Abule Ado. This system of greed and power would always cause more and consistent havoc, if we do not end it alongside its actors and actresses.
“This can be done when we all unite in action to take it back through #RevolutionNow! Another Lagos and Nigeria without endless tragedies is very possible!!”
