Razaq Bamidele
An activist and President of the Campaign for Dignity in Governance (CDG), Comrade Razaq Olokoba, has taken a critical look at the review of the Land Use Charge in Lagos by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and described it as heart-warming and commendable.
Olokoba, in a press release in Lagos weekend stated that, the review was timely in the sense that it has brought a great relief to the landed properties’ owners at this period of COVID-19 that has necessitated lockdown across the world.
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According to Olokoba, it is no more news that the lockdown occasioned by the dreaded diseased had done an incalculable damages to the personal and national economy, stressing that, “Sanwo-Olu’s initiative on the issue is a reflection of a man with milk of human kindness in his heart.”
The highly impressed pro-democracy said, the cancellation of the 2018 land use charge and reverting it to pre-2018 land use charges is a confirmation of the governor’s already known sensitiveness that has made him unique among his peers, emphasising that, “his dignity bar in our periodic dignity assessment has never lowered for a second since his assumption of office last year May 29.”
The statement further gave kudos to Sanwo-Olu’s magnanimity in waiving penalties for land use charge for 2017, 2018 and 2019, which according to the Finance Commissioner; Dr. Rabiu Olowo, translates to a loss of revenue amounting to N5.6bn.
Against the above disclosure, Olokoba said, “Sanwo-Olu has demonstrated that, governance is basically for the welfare and the wellbeing of the citizenry and not about making money and profit at the expense of the people’s comfort.”
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Olokoba therefore urged the people of the state and other direct beneficiaries of Sanwo-Olu’s people-centred policies to reciprocate his good gesture by giving him maximum support to be able to concentrate more on how to increase the ever rising Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), for the benefit of all.
“The Sanwo-Olu that we all know is kind, compassionate, magnanimous and considerate. He would not collect with his right hand what he has dashed out with his right hand. He has the required human feelings and so would not deviate from his noble way to inflict unnecessary hardship on the people,” the renowned public commentator declared.
