We’re working to make Lagos a liveable mega city - Fashola

Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Thursday, inaugurated the Lagos Liveable City Conference 2013, declaring that in grappling with challenges of managing the mega city that Lagos has become, the well-being of the people, including the man on the street, remained the central focus of the government.

The governor, who spoke at the opening of the conference on the theme, ‘Preparing for the mental and social health needs of the Lagos mega city,’ held at the Oriental Hotels, Lekki, explained that the project of governance in a mega city “is firstly and lastly for the people and about the people, including the man on the street who must be able to live in it. He must be able to breathe in it. He must be able to dream in it – dream for himself, for his family, for his succeeding generations. He must be safe in it.”

According to the governor, doing so, however, required that “he must know the rules of engagement in the defining transactions of his city – including his interactions with the law enforcement agents, his financial institutions, his moral and religious institutions.”

Governor Fashola challenged the participants to, in the course of the conference, come up with ideas and implementable suggestions on the listed matters, adding that he was already thinking about the structures that could be put in place to carry the inter-ministerial, cross-territorial project forward, beyond the deliberations of the conference. tribune