LAGOS— Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, reviewed the last 1,500 days of his administration and noted that the state government had kept faith with its promises and remained connected to the people.

Governor Fashola said this while fielding questions from newsmen at the commissioning of the group head office of Japaul Energy and Oil Services in Ikeja. Lagos.

He said: “If you recall, over the last 1,500 days, we have met with politicians, civil servants, tradesmen, artisans, youth groups and diplomatic communities. Sometimes we have broken ourselves into groups going into the three senatorial districts to hold town hall meetings.

“Sometimes, we spent the day just going round, inspecting and you have been with me in some of the trips. Things continue to change; the most important thing is that we remained connected to our people.”

On the achievements of his administration in the last 100 days, Governor Fashola said: “We have won an election against all the parties in Lagos. A very crushing defeat that we inflicted on our opponents. It showed the superiority of our ideas as accepted by the people of Lagos that Action Congress of Nigeria clearly has the superior programme and plan for the development of Lagos.

“We have passed four new laws that will significantly impact on the lives of our people. One recognises the special status of the physically-challenged people. We have passed a law to protect historic sites and historic buildings, we have passed a law on Public Private Partnership, PPP, and we have also passed a law that will enable us commence the registration of citizens through the ID Card.”

We have added a fleet of 100 new compactor trucks to enable us improve our capacity for waste management. We showed you then our recycling process in that plant where we are converting all of the waste plastics, pure water sachets and bottles into plastic bags”, Governor Fashola said.

Thanking the Body of Permanent Secretaries and the Local Government Chairmen for holding forth while the Cabinet was yet to be constituted, Governor Fashola declared, “They took leadership, they took responsibility, going round the local governments, sensitizing the people, managing and clearing refuse”, adding that the 1, 500 days was just a milestone day as government continues to function.

Speaking on the newly commissioned House, Governor Fashola noted that it was the expansion of the Dr. Nurudeen Olowopopo Road in the Central Business District that has led to the rapid growth in infrastructural development in that axis.

“It is the expansion of that road that has led to the increasing development and situation of houses in this axis of Lagos and, as you know, this is part of the Central Business District of Ikeja. Businesses come to take position because Government has done what it should do, to provide infrastructure to enable development. It will be able to address those other issues like providing job opportunities”, Governor Fashola said.

He took a swipe on critics of his administration who said expansion of the road was a waste of resources adding, “They should come and see what this road has brought. They are voodoo economists; they do not know anything about government or governance”.

The Governor was flanked by the new Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Remi Ibirogba and the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Raji, among other top government officials who had also witnessed the commissioning.