BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI

Lagos—GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, officially inaugurated a new park in Alausa, Ikeja, naming it after Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, (rtd), a former governor of the state.

Fashola

He also named Gbagada Housing Estate, under the Lagos Home Mortgage Ownership Scheme, Lagos-HOMS, after Baba Oluwide Omojola.

Speaking at the inauguration, Fashola said his administration chose the 21st anniversary of the June 12, 1993 election annulment, a symbolic date in the annals of the nation’s road to democracy, to honour heroes for the struggle for the actualization of the mandate.

He said, “It is a token gesture by us and I hope that it inspires others to seek to serve, be consistent, and to seek to stay with an ideal long after it has lost front page presence. Many of those who started this course are running with it but some few who joined because it was popular have moved on.

“They paid the price on both sides and it shows that action has consequences, for many more years after we have all gone and they ask who is Baba Omojola, the story will be told. Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu has been a long distance runner in the choice and commitments he made twenty one years ago. Year-on-year as I can remember, I cannot remember any June 12 anniversary that he did not participate in. But choices have consequences.

“It was also the choice of some people to stand up and re-install our democracy. All office bearers today across the country must continue to remember that if those who stood up for democracy did not do so we may not be office bearers today. Today, therefore, I dedicate this park in honour of Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu not only for his service to the state as one of my predecessors but for his support for democracy.”