Badagry Leaders Decry Lack Of Basic Amenities

Some leaders in Tori-Lovi Community, Badagry, Lagos State, on Monday decried the lack of basic amenities in the area.
The Tide ource reports that Tori-Lovi is a community after Age-Mowo, in Olorunda Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Badagry, Lagos State.
Some of the leaders in separate interviews with the source in Badagry said lack of basic amenities such as good roads, primary health centre, electricity supply and market had impacted negatively on them.
The traditional head (Baale) of Tori-Lovi Community, Chief Gabriel Gbetoho,  said the roads within the community were in deplorable state.
“Tori-Lovi Community was founded about 700 years ago by our forefathers, but the roads within the community are in bad state because Lagos State Government has not reconstructed them.
“Our roads have been neglected over the years, and we consistently have been involved in ensuring that we vote peacefully during elections.
“Our professions are farming and fishing and due to bad roads, we find it very hard to get our farm produce to the markets in Badagry and Alaba.
“During the rainy season, it is always difficult to drive on the road because of water.
“We are appealing to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Mr Samson Olatunde, the Chairman of Olorunda LCDA to come to our rescue,” he said.
A community leader and former Councilor, Mr Sewanu Pinponsu, said there was no primary health centre in the area.
According to him, pregnant women walk for many kilometers before getting to General Hospital in Badagry and primary health centre in Mowo before being attended to.
“Getting medical care is a huge challenge for many of us in our Tori-Lovi Community.
“We have to travel kilometres to neighbouring communities to access healthcare, this is very bad.
“Some of our mothers die on the way to hospital while our children give up the ghost on their way to nearest health centre.
“We want the government to build a good health centre for us here so that we can make use of it,” he said.
Also, Mr Jogbenu Olorunnisola, a farmer and community leader, said electricity supply and lack of good market were other problems confronting the community.
“In Tori-Lovi Community, we do not have transformer and the ones supplying us is from the neighbouring community and we are on shift.
“Sometimes, the community will be on outage for complete one month and this has led to some people leaving the community.

“No standard market for us to sell our goods, we travel as far as Agbalata and Alaba markets to sell,” he said.

The community youth leader, Mr David Padonu, said there were no schools in the community for the children and youths.

“There is no primary and secondary schools in Tori-Lovi Community, youths and children have to go as far as Badagry and Mowo to study.

“We want the government to build our own primary and secondary schools in Tori-Lovi, we have land for all these.

“Due to lack of electricity supply, most of the youth are into commercial okada riding.

“Government should repair our roads and empower youths in the community and help us to complete our town hall,” he said.