LAGOS NIGERIA, is Nigeria
largest city by population. According to Wikipedia, from 2006 population
census. Lagos state had a population of about 8million with population density
of 6,871/km2.
Lagos city sprawls Ireland
from the gulf of guinea to the Lagos lagoon.
Lagos is a home for
national museum Lagos.
The focus of this
writing is about the busiest area in Lagos. OSHODI to be precise.
If really you know Lagos,
or you have visited Lagos before. Either as a tourist or a traveler, you must
have been told to be careful while passing oshodi or to suspend your travel if
its night already and you are going to make a stop at Oshodi.
There are areas where
one has to watch his back at regular intervals especially at night.
Oshodi is a common
area for street urchins fondly called “area boys” and pick-pockets. This area
is very dangerous mostly early in the morning and at night. There is always a
clash between two factions of hoodlums over collection of levies.
Six years ago, this oshodi is a no go area for
novices once the time clocks 10pm up.
The able Governor Akinwunmi
Ambode is seriously battling the scourge of crime in the state. He has bought
vehicles and other equipment that will help in solving crime in the city and
Oshodi and environs are not left out.
Oshodi now is going
on a reconstruction phase towards the dream of making Lagos a mega city.
The reconstruction
phase is not just raising of structures in Oshodi, but well-armed securities
were mounted in every hook and crannies of Oshodi making it safer than diving
out of plane with a parachute. Lol, funny right? But that’s the truth because I’m
a witness to that.
I once arrived to by
1:00am in the morning on 7th October 2017, and I couldn’t find a bus
or taxi to take me to my destination and I spent the night at Oshodi. I didn’t experience
what my brother went through in the hands of hoodlums back in 2014.
Many crimes committed
in oshodi today are captured live by a mobile CCTV mounted at the center of
Oshodi, which makes it easy for investigative officers.
Oshodi residents will
no longer bear the grunt of crimes committed in oshodi.
“Who says Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode is not working?
Words alone can’t
explain the speed at which the structures are been erected.
More than two hundred
roads have been constructed and all of them in one way or the other makes it
easy to connect to oshodi.
The new phase of
oshodi is a beautiful sight to behold.
In less than a year,
Oshodi must have been transformed to a heaven.
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