Lere Olayinka, an aide to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has slammed those who often claim that Lagos is no-man’s land.
According to him, the fact that strangers who own houses in the city bought the land the houses sit on from Omo Onile people means that the city has original owners.
His statement came a few days after veteran entertainer Charly Boy said Lagos is no man’s land, following the renaming of a bus stop in the state that bore his name to honour someone else.
Speaking on Newscentral, Charly Boy was asked to share his opinion on the controversial statement that Lagos is not owned by a particular tribe, despite being historically and culturally a Yoruba city.
In his response, the entertainer said that because every ethnic group could be found in the city, the label of no man’s land fits it.
“This is our first capital, so it has people from different ethnic groups who make Lagos really bubble. If you are looking at it from that perspective, yes it feels like America. The melting pot of lots of immigrant people and look at how Donald Trump is messing the whole thing up. Everything up. From that perspective, in terms of people coming together, it is really a no man’s land, it’s like New York. Lagos is like New York of Nigeria,” he said.
Reacting to such a statement, Olayinka took to social media to slam those who usually utter it.
He said, “Lagos is no man’s land bla bla bla. From people who bought lands from Ọmọ Onílẹ̀ (Children of land owners) to build houses. If Lagos is NO MAN’S LAND, who sold the land on which your house was built to you?”
𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗔𝘀 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽!
