Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has offered a more detailed response
to his Anambra State counterpart, Peter Obi as controversy raged over
the sending home of some indigenes of Anambra.
It was his second response in 24 hours.
Fashola
first corrected the exaggerated number of the people involved. He said
they were 14 and not 70 or 72 as being circulated.
Second, his
response included past letters to the Anambra state Governor, since
April, informing him about the plight of the 14 people, who had
indicated their desire to return to their home state, after they were
rehabilitated at Majidun Rehabilitation Centre.
Fashola
said the 14 people were picked up on the steets of Lagos “as part of a
continuous exercise to assist vulnerable citizens who roam our streets
without food or shelter and a number who have medical ailments, usually
in the nature of mental infirmity”.
“They were taken to Majidun
Rehabilitation Centre where they treated, detoxified and restored.
Thereafter, it was possible for medical and social workers to interview
them.
“In the event, they disclosed that they were from Anambra and sought assistance to go back home”, said the letter.
For
those who may be thinking that the decision to send the 14 people home
was the sole invention of Lagos State Government, Governor Fashola also
included a letter from the Akwa Ibom Government to Lagos Ministry of
Women Affairs, repatriating two indigenes of Lagos, who were picked up
on the streets of Uyo.
Read the full response here:
Fashola’s response to Alleged Deportation of Anambra Indigenes
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