Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has lauded Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on his visit to the state on Thursday November 5th, 2020. He disclosed that Sanwo-Olu did everything needed to be done to prevent the recent youth protest against police brutality from degenerating to violence.
Governor el-Rufai said; “I have spent time to see some of the pictures of the destruction done on public properties in Lagos and I nearly shed tears. Anyone who cares about development and progress will cry after seeing what has been done to public facilities and people’s investment that provided jobs to youths.”
“While expressing anger on police brutality may be right, but destroying public properties, which will have to be rebuilt using money that is needed to invest in other public infrastructure, under the guise of protest is nothing but self-destruction. The Government of Lagos and the Federal Government will have to re-invest scarce resources that could have been used for other things to rebuild the vandalised facilities.”
“As a colleague, I can confirm that Governor of Lagos did all that could be done to ensure that this destruction does not take place. It is very sad to see what had happened in Lagos. I want to assure you that we will support you getting Lagos back on track. We will do whatever support Lagos needs from us to get back better.”
“The youth protest against the police is not out of order, but it was wrong for the protesters to call for disbandment of the entire police force because of the action of a few bad eggs.”
“I sympathise with the police and those who lost loved ones in Lagos in the wake of the violence, the Federal Government must not allow wanton destruction of public assets to happen again.”
