Buhari is the cause of Okada and Keke Napep Ban in Lagos State - Femi Falana

Posted by E.L.E.X on February 10 2020 under News

Femi Falana has asked Lagosians, who have been left trekking due to a recent ban on commercial motorbikes (Okada) and tricycles (Keke), to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for their woes.

Buhari was Nigeria’s Military Head of State from 1983 to 1985.

According to Falana, a metro line project which had the potential to solve and modernize the mass transit challenge Lagos is currently grappling with was killed by Buhari.

In 1983, General Buhari canceled the $200m metro line contract signed by then Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande.

As Falana tells it, “We had paid $200m and there was a penalty that if the contract was canceled, Nigeria would pay colossally.

We were dragged to arbitration. I don’t remember the figure now, but we were fined. So, metro line, we don’t have; money we have lost and inconvenience has continued since then.

“So, we also have a right, if we are organized in a civilized manner, to demand from the Abuja people, ‘You must pay back the cost of that metro line that you canceled; so that we can restore it.”

After three previous attempts, Buhari won the 2015 presidential election to become a civilian president.

He won re-election in 2019 for a constitutionally permissible second term in office and refers to himself as a converted democrat these days.

Amid violent protests, the Lagos state government insists that its recent decision

Buhari is the cause of Okada and Keke Napep Ban in Lagos State - Femi Falana

Femi Falana has asked Lagosians, who have been left trekking due to a recent ban on commercial motorbikes (Okada) and tricycles (Keke), to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for their woes.

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