Sanwo-Olu may be a big dreamer, but Philosophers let us know that worthwhile projects and schemes are products of deep thoughts. For example, any Lagos project of this time that worth its salt must priorities water transportation in view of the State’s bountiful endowments of natural sea water and marine resources. This he had not only envisages but also encapsulated in the project by accommodating development of water transportation infrastructure as the famed Fourth Mainland Bridge would have come on stream while Nigeria’s first deep seaport would have commenced operation in Lekki, effecting redirection of sea cargo to the benefit of Lagos, but helping in attracting other plum investments into the State and Nigeria as a whole.
With this alone, many commuters can dream relief given the very frustrating traffic bottlenecks associated with road transportation in Lagos. These are the constraints that the Greater Lagos master plan has resolved to battle, in fact correct, and which would require a consortium of resources to become a reality. And well aware that the State could not muster all the requisite or needed resources alone, Sanwo-Olu’s reaching out policy is more than commendable. As he gathers momentum from the second anniversary of his missionary journey, he has continued to beat his chest for his administration great leap. According to him, “we are currently building the biggest child hospital.
We had a whole year of pandemic; you know what Covid-19 did to us. We were able to rescue this nation out of issues that Covid-19 would have crashed us. Let us say it, it what it is. We remained the epicenter of everything regarding Covid-19 and we led from the front. We were able to hold it, arrest it and keep it at the bay. We spent our resources, we were not waiting for resources, we were doing testing, free testing for every of our citizens for the first 10 months.
Even till today, we are still doing free testing; we didn’t have the rate of fatalities that is being recorded in the other parts of the world. We have had opportunity to also scale up infrastructure in all of our hospitals. Right now, we are building an infectious diseases center so that with the learning and experience of Covid-19, we don’t need to be running helter-skelter to know how to design or look for scientist that can help us design our own vaccine.”
While many Governors in the South with no major security challenge have not succeed in wooing needed home-based technocrats and bureaucrats to their events, Sanwo-Olu has pulled together the world . The advantage for Sanwo-Olu is the opportunity of increasing the clan of associates, win more goodwill and also deepen personal knowledge. With these and all the critical infrastructural projects on ground, there is no doubt that things are taking firm shape. in pursuit of Greater and all-round 21st Century compliant Lagos State.