During the celebration of his 2, 000 days in office on Sunday, Governor Babatunde Fashola while answering questions from Gidi dwellers informed that from henceforth, the government would no longer tolerate indiscriminate parking of vehicles on the sidewalks.
The governor explained that the Ministry of Physical Planning and other relevant agencies had been instructed to begin aggressive sanitisation of the state roads by removing vehicles causing obstruction to free vehicular movement. "I have instructed the Ministry of Physical Planning and other ministries concerned to go out and remove vehicles from sidewalks. If you cannot contain your vehicles inside your premises, we will come and take them away."
Now we all know that when the governor decides to 'remove' something from the streets, he puts his whole heart into it, so car owners, beware; It was 'Okada" first, now it's your turn. If you don't want to run foul of the law, OBEY!!!
But wait a minute: What if my premises can't accomodate a car - what'll I do? How many premises in Gidi are built with the required space to house a vehicle? Other than the upscale, highbrow estates and middle class environs, nowhere else can do this. The middle class-to-upper class 'oga' can afford to bring his car into his parking space, but the man who barely manages to 'keep' his car does not have that luxury; he has to make do with the street close to his room-and-parlour, face-me-I-face-you building. What's he going to do? Who'll bail him out?
Asides from having the cash to own a car, one other criteria would now have to be: a parking space. If you don't have one, thrash the idea of owning a car. We may as well just stick to jumping okadas.
Oh, I forgot. . . He took that away too.
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