WATCH OUT! You won’t recognise Lagos in six months – Ambode
Residents in Lagos can look forward to a totally new state in the next six months, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has said.
Ambode was speaking in Badagry at the opening session of a two-day retreat organised for members of the State Executive Council and Body of Permanent Secretaries.
The retreat tagged: “Reflect, Reappraise, Restrategise: Raising The Bar Of Governance,” is the second in the series, and was held at the VIP Chalets, Badagry.
Governor Ambode, in his remarks, said the everyday challenge for him and his team in the last thirteen months was all about adding positive value and taking decisions only in the best interest of the people.
He said: “This government is about creating value for our people. That is the whole essence of our coming together as a team. It is all about seeing to what extent can we create value for Lagosians.
“That is our everyday challenge that the people have seen in the last thirteen months. I believe strongly that creating value is the central focus of everyday decision we have taken at the Exco level and even the Body of Permanent Secretaries level.
“We are all out to give positive value to Lagosians. We don’t want to make life difficult for people and we also want to ensure that in every decision that we make, the overall interest of the larger populace is actually affected positively.
“In the next six months, a totally different Lagos you will see because the kind of initiatives that we have set up that are actually work in progress now, we will release and unleash them and the people will obviously see that we are very focused on making life easier for them,” the Governor said.
He said specifically that the transport system in the state would be changed for good.
“We do not think Lagos deserves the kind of transport system that it has now. We also think we need to intervene with the private sector to deal with the issues that relate to environmental sanitation.”
The Governor, who commended the members of the State Executive Council and Body of Permanent Secretaries for partnering with him since assuming office, however urged them to continue to stay focused on the journey to transform the State.
He said a lot had been done, but that more still needed to be done, and that all hands must be on deck to move the State forward, one of the reasons he said necessitated the retreat to appraise what had been done and chart a way forward..
