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<\/p>\nNAN reports that Hamzat spoke on Friday at a meeting with the staff of the Office of the Deputy Governor (ODG), at Alausa, Ikeja.<\/p>\n
According to him, he and Gov. Sanwo-Olu are familiar with state, the civil servants, where the food is and what to prepare for the people, and have no excuse but to do what is right.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt worries me that the life span of a typical Nigerian is below required standard: men \u2013 46, women \u2013 49, which means we are doing something wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur health system is bad, our environment is horrible and everything is going down the drains.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why our project THEMES are hinged on Traffic Management and Transportation; Health and Environment, Education and Technology, Making Lagos a 21st Century Economy, Entertainment and Tourism, as well as Security and Governance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe owe it to God and to our children to build this land so that our children can be proud of our country and stop running to other countries for greener pastures, so they can sustain us when we are old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI urge our civil servants to be the best in whatever they do. I plan to be the best deputy governor ever in this state, so that together, we can transform Lagos State to better our citizens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hamzat said the yearly budget of the state was still just a scratch in the surface.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur budget in Lagos State is less than 3billion dollars, the fire department of the New York City spends 2.8 billion dollars, just a city.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NYPD (Police) spent 6 billion dollars in 2018, twice the budget of our state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich means we have just scratched the surface. A lot needs to be done because many people will keep coming to Lagos, and whatever we are doing, we must do it in three folds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will work together as a government and as a people to resolve the challenges that face us as a state to help businesses operate better, create jobs for our teeming youths and grow our economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, says he plans to be the best deputy governor ever in the state, by working in synergy with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to better the lives of Lagosians. NAN reports that Hamzat spoke on Friday at a meeting with the staff of the Office of the Deputy Governor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5661,250],"class_list":["post-122455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}