Ojodu LCDA announces free public transport. But questions abound.
Questions remain over how much the scheme will cost and who benefits.
On July 21, the Chairman of Ojodu Local Council Development Area, Segun Odunmbaku, said he had taken delivery of buses – 12 in total, according to an Ikeja Record count – for a free public transport scheme. According to Odunmbaku, the transport scheme will help to ease the movement of residents and “cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal on the people of Ojodu and environs.”
Odunmbaku’s move won him widespread praise on social media. Local governments in Nigeria are notorious for being absent in the lives of citizens despite billions allocated to them every year. “A local government actually working for its people in Nigeria is so rare it should be hailed nationwide,” one Twitter user said. “If one Chairman can do this, what is stopping others?”
Two days after Odunmbaku’s announcement, The Record vis…
