Amid the persistent floods affecting parts of Lagos, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has criticized the state government’s efforts to address the issue.
Wednesday’s heavy rains resulted in several cars and houses being submerged, leaving millions of commuters and workers stranded across various areas of the state.
A day after the incident, Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s governorship candidate for the 2023 election in Lagos, criticized the state government for insufficiently managing the recurrent flooding problem.
“The solutions that we have seen with this state government in the last 24 years have been very pedestrian,” he said on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
“You have your gutters, don’t dump waste in your gutters but what is your waste management policy? How have you brought it down to your local government? How have you created incentives for people to manage their waste because it can be converted to wealth?
“How have you covered your gutters? How have you localised your canal management systems? How have you gotten your CDAs and local governments involved? We have a situation whereby local governments are just extensions of political parties. They don’t have a scheme in the game.”