Lagos Assembly wants monuments named after colonial masters renamed

Lagos Assembly wants monuments named after colonial masters renamed

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Lagos State House of Assembly is asking President Muhammadu Buhari to issue an Executive Order to rename monuments such as streets, gardens and other

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Lagos State House of Assembly is asking President Muhammadu Buhari to issue an Executive Order to rename monuments such as streets, gardens and other notable areas named after colonial masters or beneficiaries of the slave trade.

The House in a resolution reached after plenary also called on the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, to direct the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture to liaise with the Attorney-General/Commissioner for Justice to look at the Listed Sites in the Lagos state Preservation Law Chapter 86 Vol. 1 with a view to removing all vestiges of slave trade and colonial superiority as a stand against racism.

The Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa and other members of the House agree that this would correct impressions fuelling the white supremacy movement and reduce incessant racist attacks and ill treatments of Black people across the world.

Hon. Noheem Adams, who moved the motion, noted that the brutal murder of George Floyd drew the attention of the world to the realities of police violence, systematic racism, oppression and domination of “Black people’ by ‘White people” in spite of the abolition of slave trade.“We need to delist monuments that depict racism and promote values and culture, as slave trade is not our culture but a part of our history. Black people should not see themselves as inferior beings because of their skin colour. We must also encourage our children to know that Black people is superior”, Hon. Abiodun Tobun stated.In his contribution, Hon. David Setonji charged Black people around the world to value and uplift each other as well as look for legitimate ways to utilize opportunities of the western world. Hon. Abdul-Sobur Olayiwola who also lent his voice to the issue expressed that the motion is particularly germane as the common motivator of racism is the belief that Whites are superior.

“The basic step toward eliminating racism or racist acts is to promote our indigenous languages as it boost confidence among our people. We should not shy away from history by maintaining monumental structures for generations to come but existing streets that carries foreign names should be changed if they add no value to the present”, Hon. (Mrs.) Mojisola Meranda opined.

Hon. Sa’ad Olumoh reiterated that history must be written from our perspective and our culture must be preserved as history has been documented and cannot be changed.

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