The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct the commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture to liaise with the attorney-general/commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onibganjo to look at the listed sites on Prevention Law, 2015 with a view to removing all vestiges of slave trade and colonialism superiority.

Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, also directed its clerk, Azeez Sani, to address a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari , seeking an Executive Order that all streets named after colonial masters should be changed.

He stated that the intention of the motion was not about history, adding that history could not be changed.

According to Obasa, the kind of treatments meted on George Floyd in the United States must be stopped and that we should support those who protest against such an act.

He also said names of some of some buildings and streets renamed after colonial masters should be changed because, “it reminds us of these people that enslaved our people.”

The speaker further asked why the discovery of River Niger was being ascribed to foreigners, adding that the name Nigeria was said to have been given by the colonial masters.

“The motion is about us, about Africans. We have to tell the world about our own civilisation. The resolve is not broad enough. It is not about Lagos State alone. We have to tell African Union about reparation started by the late Chief M.K.O Abiola” he declared In his submission, Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu representing Eti-Osa Constituency 2, who supported the motion said that history that makes the black to feel inferior should be changed.



“This is a right step in the right direction and we need to change our psyche and history that will not make us feel as human beings. We need

to change the narrative that connotes superiority in our history. I want my colleagues to support the motion,” he said

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everybody na motherfvcking hypocrite

good motive, why celebrate slave masters, they have done harm than good.

I support this.