By Chris Onuoha
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fasho-la has urged the people of Lagos to contribute to building archives to ensure that history is properly handed down to future generations.

Fashola made this call at the presentation of the book, Possessed: A history of Law and Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos 1861 – 1906, by Olasupo Sasore (SAN) at the City Hall, on Friday, June 17.

According to Fashola, “it is important that Lagos should have a record and archives bureau centre where if you have any memorabilia, any document, we would gladly receive it, acknowledge it, and keep it for posterity.” And that is why we created the Lagos State Residence Registration Agency (LASRRA), to take care of that.

Sasore, the author of the book, is one time Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State. In his remark he said, “The intention in writing the book was not to preach ethnicity. Anybody who lives in Lagos has the right to call himself a Lagosian, only if he loves Lagos.”

Speaking further he said, “The later settlers before amalgamation described themselves as Lagos Africans because not all of them were indigenous to where they live and we still have that phenomenon in Lagos today. It is one of our strengths that in 1850, we had 20 thousand people, but today, there are 20 million from all sorts of background.”