Award winning broadcaster and journalist Funmi Iyanda is not happy with the poor standards of living at the Shomolu suburb of Lagos and the country in general. The TV host took to her Instagram to express her feelings over what she witnessed when she paid a visit to her cook in Shomolu, Lagos. Funmi decried the deteriorating state of the place she lived between the ages of 5 and 10 and also added that the squalor she witnessed there also cuts across to most middle class suburbs in the country.
“I know Shomolu well; I lived there between ages 5 and 10. It was always a poor enclave surrounded by more middle class Gbagada, Akoka, and Morroco. It was poor when l was little but it was livable and had neighbouring good schools and hospitals, the inner roads poor but outer links good. What l saw today has depressed me immeasurably. The inner roads are barely motor-able, outer ones narrowed by erosion and wanton construction. The houses are sinking, damp, lacking toilets and unsanitary. It's no way for anyone to live but the houses are bursting at the seams with people. Overcrowded, impoverished and unsanitary. The people are live wire angry, snarling at little provocation everyone hurrying to and from church,” Funmi vented via her Instagram.
“One after the other the middle class satellites have all bowed down to the dejectification of life and reduction of human dignity. They are all in varying degrees, urban slums,” Funmi added.
She also expressed disappointment over her inability to get her voter’s card from her pooling unit as her name was missing. “On the way back l stopped at my polling unit for my voters card. Once again my name is missing. I had moved my flight back and gone there three days in a row. Have l been systematically disenfranchised?” she asked.
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