What’s going on?
You don’t tackle poverty by hiding away your Poor.
You confront Poverty by targeting your Poor with Policies and Investments that raise their Productivity. Stop!
What Lagos needs is Slum Upgrade, not Gentrification in which the poor gets evicted for the benefit of the wealthy.
This wrong Policy tool is becoming too rampant.
The worst Policy Tool to always deploy in the tough decision needed, is one that hits the hammer on the Poor ALL THE TIME. Not good @all.
There are evidence-based ways of determining best menu of Policy Options to deal with these things.
Let’s use them more.
Lagos-Island, Apapa, Surulere
Eti Osa, Lagos-Mainland & Ikeja”.
I went, “not again! It does not work well.”
What I’ll later tweet on is whether the Ban is the most optimal Solution for resolving those evident problems of the ubiquitous Okadas and Kekes on Lagos roads.
Later. ✍️