Essentially, Lagos will be closed for two days, business activities in the nation’s commercial capital will be grounded, everyone has to sit their butts at home when they should be out there making a quick buck for themselves and their families, banks will be shuttered, markets will run skeletal services and courts won’t hear cases just because Buhari is visiting town to commission a bus terminal and attend a public lecture!
Protocol
I understand all that gibberish about presidential protocol. Trust me, I do get it. I know that Presidents and Governors aren’t mere mortals like the rest of us. I get that these VIPs don’t use the bathroom or fart and don’t inhale through their nostrils like the rest of us. I get it. I get that a president shouldn’t be subjected to the agony of sitting in traffic in a chaotic city like Lagos because slow moving traffic is beneath him.
I totally get it.
What I do not get is declaring a public holiday and stopping everyone dead in their tracks because the president is coming to town. Which other "smart city" in the world would pull a stunt like this?
How do you even rationalize shutting down the 5th largest economy in Africa--a city that accounts for 90 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign trade inflow, which contributes 30 per cent to the country’s GDP and which is home to 65 per cent of Nigeria’s manufacturing activity; because a president is visiting? Like, who does that? SOURCE MORE...
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