Deportation of Igbos by Fashola - a case of "odourferious saga of gagatuangaga"

 The Executive Director of Egalitarian Mission for Africa,  Mr.  Kayode Ajulo,  has frowned at the deportation of some easterners by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, under the guise of rehabilitation or reunion.

A statement issued saturday  by the politician and human rights activist said the action of the Lagos State government has no basis in the nation’s law.

“As a matter of fact,  it was an action begat in illegality and birthed in unconstitutionality. Every Nigerian has a right to reside in any part of Nigeria without any molestation or harassment whatsoever and regardless of the name of the such infringement is described, “ he said.

Ajulo described the defence of rehabilitation cum reunion offered by officials of Lagos State as “hollow, jejune, and a gratuitous insult on our collective psyche.”

He said “It is a rape and or a violation of the right of the victims who never complained of missing home, or sought any reunion with their kinsmen back home. It is an incontrovertible fact that most of these men and women visit home at Christmas and new year.

“Pray tell me, which of Fashola’s sycophantic minions led him into this ignoble and inexcusable infamy or in the word of Patrick Obayagbon odourferious saga of gagatuangaga; “I am certain he would by now have spent much more to clear the messy fallout of his precipitous action than he would have spent to “rehabilitate” these poor victims of executive intemperance and high handedness.”

The former senatorial candidate of Labour Party in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)  however appealed  to people across the country not to see it from the ethnic angle, saying Fashola was not acting for the Yoruba.

“Let it be known that Fashola’s influence in Yorubaland does not extend beyond his Lagos State. It is also in the same vein I urge all commentators in this and other media to exercise restrain in their comment and not unduly heat up the polity, “ he added.