Governor, Nasir El-Rufai Visits Governor Sanwo-Olu, Says He Nearly Shed Tears Seeing Burnt Sites

 

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, visited his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to sympathise with him over the current lack of lives and properties in Nigeria’s economic capital.

Rampaging hoodlums had hijacked the #EndSARS protests towards police brutality to wreak havoc in Lagos last month.

El-Rufai stated Sanwo-Olu did all that had to be carried out to prevent the demonstrations from degenerating to violence but folks that thrive in violence infiltrated the protests to attain their schedule.

According to a statement via Sanwo-Olu’s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, the Kaduna State governor stated he nearly shed tears seeing images of burnt and looted sites in Lagos.

The declaration become titled, ‘El-Rufai: Youths Who Destroyed Public Assets In Lagos On Self-Destruction’.

It quoted El-Rufai as saying, “I have frolicked to peer a number of the photos of the destruction finished on public homes in Lagos and I nearly shed tears. Anyone who cares approximately development and progress will cry after seeing what has been finished to public centers and people’s investment that furnished jobs to youths.

“While expressing anger on police brutality may be proper, but destroying public homes, so as to have to be rebuilt using money this is had to put money into other public infrastructure, underneath the guise of protest is not anything but self-destruction.

“The Government of Lagos and the Federal Government will need to re-invest scarce resources that might have been used for other things to rebuild the vandalised centers.”

The Kaduna State governor also sympathised with the Nigeria Police Force and people who lost cherished ones in Lagos within the wake of the violence, saying the Federal Government need to not allow wanton destruction of public belongings to show up again.

On his component, Sanwo-Olu thanked his colleague, pronouncing the country had moved on however “vowed to make the kingdom uncomfortable for the ones as a way to destroy the kingdom’s financial system and historical past.”