Spokesperson for the African Action Congress (AAC), Femi Adeyeye, has advised Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to focus on helping really needy children and not just those he meets by chance…if he truly meets them by chance.
Adeyeye was reacting to Sanwo-Olu’s decision to stop his convoy and help two out-of-school girls he met on Thursday morning.
He suggested that it is hypocritical for the state government to be jailing homeless children while the governor is expressing shock over the plight of the girls he met that morning.
Adeyeye also accused the governor of staging the Thursday encounter.
“Sanwo-Olu is a good director. He even made sure religious character or is it federal character was complied with.
One of the girls dressed like a Christian. The other a Muslim,” he said.
Sanwo-Olu promised to take care of the girls but Adeyeye doesn’t seem impressed.
“Sanwo-Olu should go to Kirikiri prison to see children who were sent there for not ‘having any means of livelihood’,” Adeyeye said.
“That was the charge I saw when I intervened in the matter, sometime in 2017. He needs to be shocked.
“We didn’t send the kids there. Lagos State TaskForce did. Many of them who hawk are being picked daily by the taskforce and sent to prison.
“After we were released from unjust incarceration, I and some well-meaning Nigerians sourced for funds and secured the release of seven child inmates.
“We linked up, did media work, wrote petitions which got over 200 released from Badagry prison that same year.
“As of 2017, the fine for not ‘having a means of livelihood’ was N60,000. Let’s go to Kirikiri. I’m seriously willing to shock him more. Lagos, their ‘mega city’ is full of shocks.”
