It is an exercise in revisionism to suggest that Yoruba built Lagos and that the Igbo people of the South- East geographical region only troops in to partake in the prosperity the South-West region provides
What drive the relative prosperity of Lagos wasn’t provided by Yoruba or Lagosians alone.Being a Federal capital, the resources of all regions( palm oil from the East, groundnut and tin from the Nort, and cocoa from the West) were used to develop Lagos, and made the state commercially viable, and from which those who rule Lagos collect taxes.Yoruba, as an ethnic group, didn’t build Apapa ports and Tin Can Island. Lagos state didn’t build Third Mainland Bridge, Carter Bridge, and the bridge that connects Western Avenue on the Mainland to the Island. Let the federal government build ports in the East- Asaba, Port-Hacourt, and Akwa Ibom, and watch Apapa port depleted of containers, 65% of which are headed to the Eastern parts of the country. So, if citizens from other parts of the country are in Lagos, it is because of the unfair and natural advantages the city has over other regions. The issue is, where is the Yoruba, my people, contributions to the sustainance of this economic and commercial advantage.
Today, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, which Lagos is, is firmly in the hands of the Igbo people.And it seems the political establishment, instead of finding solution to this obvious economic disadvantage of Yoruba people, are deploying bigotry and thuggery against the Igbo community economic interests. The question we have failed to ask the so- called ‘owners of Lagos’ is, did the Igbo put guns on the heads of those selling their family inheritance. Let Yoruba traders compete for economic space.All over the world, big cities are built and economically maintained by resources brought into them
