 Today's throwback. Today's throwback. Preview project politics of water in colonial Lagos part two. Yesterday's piece part one established the fact that the Europeans and the educated natives had perceived the need for portable water supply at least in the residential and working quarters on the island. Since the former colonial administration which came into being after the 1861 session of Lagos increased their numbers and colonial governor John Glover's palliative policy of sinking modern worlds between 1862 and 1864. The piece also established the superiority of the water reticulation or piping network project to the large population of uneducated natives who, one, hadn't been to Europe and couldn't have been familiar with modern reticulation technology or the earth that he gives. And two, never felt they had a clean water supply problem like the paranoid Europeans and the educated natives. It was in the backdrop of these differences of values and the nearly five decades of delay in the implementation of the public water reticulation policy due to its prohibitive cost that a very responsive and popular oboe of Lagos, ʻșu ʻb ʻi ʻa ʻqa ʻe ʻle ʻqo ʻve ʰo ʻa ʻsended ʸi ʷu ʻ kh ʵʰo ʶb ʸas ʸi ʸi 1901. And the expansive colonial government after the amalgamation of Lagos colonial's sudden protectorate in 1906 commenced the very costly underwater works project. As it was the tradition of the British colonialist either in their colonies or at the colonial and common world of the white world, London, they wanted the resources of the colonized territory to either directly or indirectly play and obviate the cost of any project executed in the colony. This instructed the colonial government's decision to levy an unpopular water tax on leggars. Obviate Shubai was not in support of the tax too as it isn't that the water project was essentially going to be beneficial to the Europeans and the very few educated elite but not to the majority of these people who the Europeans wanted to pay for the water project. The colonial government for that took offence against the leko because of the public protest and looting of the Europeans shops that the unpopular policy cost. This umbridge and the resolve of the colonial authorities to avenge it made them to humiliate the oba. When the oba approved the appointment of four Jumat Muslims to the titles of Balog Muslumi, Basharun Muslumi, Seriki Muslumi and the Bay at the central mosque of Legos. The colonial government objected that he had no powers to meddle in the Muslim, meddle in Muslims religious matters that it was the exclusive responsibility of the leadership of the Legos Central Mosque and the colonial government. But ironically, very rich and leading Muslims of Legos then fully supported the oba and they constituted the majority of the new committees members who when the colonial government on that vindictively manipulative Lord Lugar would deal the leko stipend generously supplied his wants before the ineffective punitive measure was reversed. This was the accurate sociocultural milieu of Legos when Abbott McCauley, one of the very few educated natives that supported the anti-water tax position of a leko and the preponder majority of the natives. Indeed, it was the meeting note taker, often misconstrued to be secretary of the new committee, snicked the leko staff of office to London and used it in getting justice and adequate compensation at the Privy Council of the House of Lords. The British Supreme Court then for work achieved the genuine law of the Oluwa clan on the unfairly acquisition of upper land by the colonial authorities. As it was typical of Abbott McCauley, he also painted a despicable picture of how the oba of Legos, who he referred to as the king of Nigeria because his predecessor signed the Legos Treaty obsession that established the first British colony, the colony of Legos in the territory now known as Nigeria. It was being humiliated and remunerated below what was agreed in the treaty. The colonial government wanted a leko to denounce the claim of Abbott McCauley, which he did, but they preferred him to publicly adopt a version scripted by Enrica, the equivalent of the native government and the highest African in the colonial administration, none officially as the resident of Legos that he refused to do. It was determined and sent to first exile in Oyo where he stayed for the short duration of oba Ibikule Akitoye, who died and was succeeded by Sanusio Lucy, whose unpopular reign was judicially cut short by the Privy Council's reinstatement order of oba Ishubaya leko in 1931 until he died in 1932 in conclusion. And this is one of my fervent passions, especially to the younger generations in whom I pledge my faith for the redemption of this nation, not withstanding your reversion for your oppressors, not withstanding your reversion for your oppressors, like the Legos, the members of the new committees, the Abbott McCauley's for the colonial government, and the perceived traitors in your ranks, like Kitoye Yajasawa or Enrica ETC, lend their relative excellence and be ready to pay the price for sustainable development. Water may be free, but the cost of perpenite plain to homes and for the good health of people is obviously not free. And that's it on the show tonight. I am Bola Oba. Have a good weekend.