Nigeria: Apapa Residents Lament Govt's Neglect

2 February 2010

MOVING round some popular streets in Apapa Local Government Area, one will not fail to notice certain billboards conspicuosly mounted at strategic locations. On each of the billboards are the carefully displayed photographs of the Apapa Local Government Chairman, Hon. Ayodeji Joseph and a bad road placed side by side a newly constructed one with drainage system.

Boldly written are words claiming that the Apapa Local Government had constructed drainage and resurfaced road for each named street with pictoral evidence supporting this 'Before and After'. In other words, the billboards were intended to highlight and promote some of the achievements of the local government.

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