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August 04, 2015

HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED MORNINGS AT KETU?

Lagos will always be #Lagos,and this is another memory catch-back from living and commuting in/out of Ikorodu, in Lagos. This is popular ketu bus stop, where i usually stop to buy me some banana  i always eat everyday at work then.When you live,or have lived in Lagos, like i used to, i bet you will understand what its like every morning there as a commutter, whether in your own private car, a public bus or even company bus ride.Ketu is also another densely populated area of Lagos, with lots of activities, morning to sun down.

So, the interesting thing here is that this very bustop is a confluence or merging point of different people, vehicles,shops/businesses, street traders & hawkers, Newspaper vendors, different workers, pupils/students, bus conductors, danfo drivers (and their terrifying yellow buses),lackadaisical traffic Policemen/women and of course, the ever crazy traffic.This is the peak and busy spot called Ketu bustop. Everyone here is just involved in one thing or activity of the other,all sort of movements that tells you to keep moving and dont stop,or else you find yourself to blame. Oh yes, and such places too are where some fast finger boys dwell.

This is what a typical morning looks like and sometimes even when it rains,the hustling and bustling never ceases or stops.I remember there on my first time i had to leave home by 5am, from ikorodu just to avoid traffic and i was dazzled at how this ketu was already flooded with people and activities as early as that time of day. Lagosians are ever busy and fully stressed out everyday with such living conditions of our roads as they go to work, to make a living and survive, yet i keep wondering how long we will continue in such long style of under-development, insensitivity of Government and continous ignoring of the poor masses and the less previledge ones on the streets.

I am just here to share, to remember, to capture and express my memories and at same time, encouraging anyother person reading this that we(Nigeria)still have a long way to go. Everything works outside of Nigeria and why are we still down and backward in enhancing our civil environment,infastructures and citizens living conditions? I will leave that to you answer or ponder on. If 'e go better...', lets do our own part, do things right and keep praying and acting right. Eko no go baje more than how it is now.Anyone to say Amen?

 Happy New month ALL.



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