A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said that he does not believe in the report that Lagos State was the third most dangerous city to leave in the world.
Falana debunked the report on Sunday evening during the investiture of Mr Kayode Opeifa, the former Commissioner for Transport in Lagos State as the President of Rotary Club.
Falana who reacted to a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, that ranked Lagos State as the third worst city to live in among 140 cities worldwide.
Lagos was ranked 138th out of the 140 countries in the EIU 2018 report.
Part of the EIU report stated: “With a relatively low score of 38.5 percent, the city was just a little above Syria’s war-torn capital, Damascus, and Bangladesh’s Dhaka.”
Falana said, “I dont believe Lagos is the third dangerous city to leave in because there many cities in other countries that are more dangerous than Lagos.
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“The Lagos State Government should quickly respond to this report and let people know that the state is safe for people .
“The only challenge we are facing is that the quality of our representation in government is low, at the state, local government and federal levels.
” Lagos alone has 24 members at the Federal House of Representatives, let us be sincere to ourselves how many of them do we hear about?
“We have 40 legislators in the state house of assembly, what is the quality of the debate there? Who are the people representing us at the various local government levels ?”
Falana, therefore, advised the residents of the state to always challenge their representatives at both the National and state assemblies on proactive legislation.
He said that legislators from Lagos and the South West should stand out for the good of their states and not go to the assemblies to dance.
The lawyer also appealed to the Rotary Club members to do what they could to make the society a better place for all .
