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The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) has accused the Lagos State government of ignoring quality counsel in matters of public interest and failing to undertake impact assessments in implementing policies.
The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) has accused the Lagos State government of ignoring quality counsel in matters of public interest and failing to undertake impact assessments in implementing policies.
'Common sense says two heads are better than one. But the AC government is playing God, demonstrating undue cockiness and a devil-may-care attitude to governance in the administration of this state. Such an attitude does nobody any good.
We condemn this kind of blunt refusal to consider the negative impact of policies on the population, even when preemptive warning has been offered," the party said in a release by its Director of Publicity, Felix Oboagwina.
The party said it was more detestable that the Lagos State government considered as anathema all advice by the opposition. According to the party, some programmes and projects run by the state had ended up leaving avoidable negative impacts on the public, and the result had been wholesale confusion, frustration and demoralization of the populace.
'Policies need to count the human and material costs before rolling out. Where harm and inconvenience cannot be avoided, then a sensible and humane government would first provide enough shock-absorbers for people who will immediately bear the brunt of the inevitable innovation," DPA said.
The party cited in particular the ‘pure water' packet clean-up exercise, which escalated the price of the commodity by as much as 100 percent after the government forced production to stop, the BRT scheme that has forced commercial vehicles to raise fares by over 100 percent on routes parallel to the BRT corridor, the clampdown on private schools that threw students out of schools mid-session and wiped out thousands of private-school teaching and non-teaching jobs.
The party also recalled many demolitions of markets, shops and residential buildings, the government-sponsored expansion of the palace of the Oba of Lagos that denied neighbours land heritages and homes and the displacement of traders at the burnt Tejuosho market.