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    Fashola Celebrates 51st Birthday With Visually Impaired Students ...Urge Lagos Residents To Be Vigilant

    Lagos state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola yesterday urged residents to be more vigilant and engage any stranger in their neighborhood.

    The governor who made the appeal at the commissioning of the Fountain of Life Church’s main auditorium, owned by Pastor Taiwo Odukoya in the Ilupeju axis of the state, said this after receiving a birthday gift from the church.

    Fashola noted that if Lagosians are vigilant and adaptive to their community, the challenge of insecurity would be overcome.

    According to him, “We will overcome the challenge by being vigilant and adaptive. By asking questions of things that are not normal. Things that fail to follow the original conduct of human behaviour. By asking question from people who are strangers in our midst, seeking to know where they came from, and what their purpose was among us”.

    He added, “We must no longer keep quiet. I am sure that if we do these simple things, all will be well with us.”

    Fashola however tasked residents to continue to live in peace and harmony irrespective of whatever happens.

    His words, “By our action, we will show that we have voted to live together; to live in peace and to respect one another’s choices. And it is from that respect that we can earn the trust of one another and keep this state together.”

    The governor called on religious organisation to partner the government in eradicating poverty in the country, saying “constructing and engaging residents, are good means of reducing employment.”

    He said, “This is the partnership that must exist between the government and the people of different faiths. Religious organizations in other advanced countries own businesses to support their government to provide jobs and keep the economy going.”

    The governor, while celebrating his 51st birthday with students of the Nigerian Society for the Blind, Oshodi, said “As I was planning what to do today, I remembered that I have an unfinished business here: the promises that I made. I was not forced to make them.”

    “I remember I met a couple of students last year and I remember two people, the young lady identified as Kafayat who had to wait for one year before she can go to law school. She suddenly lost her sight and she had to learn new software on how to write and others things. And the CEO of a business, who also lost her sight and had to visit the institution to learn how he could continue with her business without her sight. Those two people are constant reminders for me of how un-appreciative those who have sight are. They are sober and humble moment for me as I go through my daily activities.”

    He noted that this was why the state government committed about N51 million for the construction of the vocational centre for residents who are visually impaired.
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