 Should lekkie a pet tour gate reopen many people have their own opinions on this but personally I believe there's no right or wrong answer however the fact remains lekkie concession company LCC is a private limited entity with investors and loans that needs to be paid back and the only way they can do this is for them to charge the public don't get me wrong we should never forget the shooting that had that took place at the tour gate but we must also have said this issue carefully and logically lekkie concession company LCC as mentioned is a private entity in charge of the day-to-day operation development and maintenance of the road in 2006 LCC won the concession to construct and enlarge the 49 kilometers road and also the construction of the 20-kilometer coastal road the agreement was based on a build operator and transfer agreement on the PPP private public partnership this contract would expand 30 years before LCC had to hand it back to Lego State LCC will recoup their investment back by building three tour gates on the 49 kilometers road but for LCC to achieve this incredible development they had to borrow monies from both local and international banks however in August 2013 after 35 billion Naira was spent LCC lost the concession due to an increase in tour gate fees caused by an increase in exchange rates due to the public outcry ex-governor Babatini fashion I had no choice to cancel the PPP PPP contract which led to Lego State buying back the contract a new agreement now meant that LCC would be owned by Lego State but managed as a private entity with this information I failed to understand or see why people would would think Ashwajibola Ahmed Tanubu owns LCC because Ashwajib was not the governor at the time the LCC contract was signed nor was he the governor when the contract was cancelled why did the protestor decide on the tour gate one would say the protestors wanted to be heard so they decided to to besiege a few public facility that will bring them maximum public awareness a few days into the protest there was a change in their demand from one topic into several others and one of their sole focus was their misinformation about their ownership of LCC and the Oriental Hotel as mentioned above Ashwajib and the owners of these two businesses came out in public to state that these rumors were false one could say that the protest could have been influenced or hijacked by others with their own personal political agenda should LCC start operating again sooner or later people must understand that the that the leaky a pair road and the Iqoi leaky bridge would reopen because directly or indirectly LCC had no control over what happened during the ensar's protest nor did they have control over the police or the military however LCC as a business should have done more to handle the situation better after the event instead of hiding behind Lagos state by them not taking their own stand people see no difference between LCC and Lagos state which is the biggest problem now Nigerians must also understand that LCC cannot ignore its liabilities and debt obligation and neither can we as of today LCC owns local lenders over 11 billion narrow and foreign lenders 31 million dollars because LCC is so business is the maintenance of the road and the redevelopment of other areas if they cannot charge for the use of the roads and bridge how would they pay back the existing loan and continue the much needed redevelopment in the leaky area and we must also understand that if loans like these are not payback this could affect us all in the long run as cost of borrowing would increase and Nigerians businesses as a whole will be seen as high-risk customers well well said I also have share same sentiment the fights or the big disagreement I will know is what fight I was there actually is between we the young persons of Nigeria and the government who are trying to make a statement to them we have made our statement is and the government have had us they are not deft they are not they've had us it's not left for them to do the right thing now about LCC it's true because you know we do something we should not just do something for the sake of our parochial reasons we should also think of our image as a nation let me give you an example when you banned Twitter because you wanted to punish the youth you didn't think that they will see us as a high-risk country in doing business and no freedom of speech you didn't think that you were just thinking that ok is the Nigeria is it's me and the youth we are not thinking about the long-term effect number two when you say don't open LCC don't open the toolkit you didn't think because you think you want to punish the government you didn't think that these are private investors some foreign some domestic you didn't think that some of these people would channel their resources next time to neighboring countries and then we see why going to get countries like Ghana where we are also causing our problem so we should not shoot our safe in the leg indirectly Nigerians were all worse enemies we do things without thinking so let me bring up something so way before this Ansar's stuff right a majority of people in Lagos still have issues with the lucky tour gate or and the lucky express access that lucky access because there was meant to be a full alternative route yes there to date it's still no full alternative route so that is also part of the issue you're forcing people to go through a toll and pay yet you have not provided the alternative route so that's despite of Ansar so people are forgetting people are already upset with LCC and legal state on that point okay the the other thing is also how they did the road there should be some bypass some overhead driving bridges that can accommodate people who are not going to the local areas but maybe going to Haja or to reduce the traffic right now it's still only one road and those are things that were meant to be done so according to their initial mandate they have not fulfilled their initial mandate so that's a beef in itself now when you look at the Ansar's debacle and the loss of life there's an emotive factor it's it's it's people are fired up people are angry people are resentful because generally innocent people died generally the military and police did not do what they were meant to do what they are meant to do serve and protect though there were political biases political things that were going on and people got caught in the middle LCC knowing that their private company whoever's in charge of their marketing and communications honestly terrible terrible terrible terrible they got lazy complacent and they hid what if I was with LCC what we would have done is do a lot of on-ground work away from the state government separate from the state government you have not marked any memorial for the loss of these people who died where your infrastructure is you were not to blame it was in no way was it LCC's fault what happened because they were taken by taken by by surprise exactly but there was nothing putting place to memorialize these people there was nothing put in place to sensitize these people to do some proper you know image work and ground work to get the youth on sign you know to understand and bring them into the conversation I mean so that is why because they didn't do that what to separate themselves from legal state in people's mind that's the problem because if if they were bored enough or so like like you said and I wrote us also is that they should have separated itself by separating themselves then they're basically saying do you know what with you protestors we were not with you we're not with legal state this is our business this is our livelihood what has happened has happened the less less acknowledge it but however we still need to move and they still angered some I want to hear what I as means but they've angered people in lacking lacking residents association because I think they came up with a statement saying they they're opening this is LCC and that they've got the permission of lekkie residents yes lekkie residents to say when did we give you permission when did you we have this meeting so they completely allegedly completely kind of lied and went over the lekkie rest over to you the big contact you guys so I admire thank you guys it's a pure disaster an absolute disaster they don't have any grounds to stand on as it is we need to go back to the table we need to draft this thing and begin to think about complicating the lives that were lost it's not so much about opening that place and trying to be the date alone how much are you going to place on the lives of the people that were lost there there's no amount of money you're going to give the family that's going to go back what was your stand when that happened you did absolutely nothing now it's okay we make mistakes but we must always know when to track our steps and do the right thing as LCC done the right thing so far have they issued a statement to commentate with the family have they done any campaign to identify the issues that were discussed what is their stand on the panels that have been opened in legal state have they been following up with the media they have done absolutely nothing so on what grounds do they want to come back and open that place I'm an accountant so I understand the figures but I also understand that good will is what they need to work that business they don't have the good will how far are you going to go without good will they're going to open that place and something really about the game she's right no you're right because because like is is is the Nigerian disease when something goes wrong we know what to do but we don't do it because there's no there's no accountability and then in this in this situation also LCC hid behind legal states which is a mistake which is which is a big mistake what are they doing now now they should have done I mean whoever is in charge of the PR they're completely useless because they should have taken they should have taken the bull by their horn and everything they should have consulted even if you don't want to talk to the leaky people you can put something in the paper where we are we know that this has happened we are and everything pull it plack them let people know your customer from time to time make people passing that route understand that you know the people that died you're recognizing that we lost some people not a known can turn ties around for LCC you don't have to put a permanent structure you can just say okay every 20th of the year or every 20th of every month we'll just run a 16 seconds campaign of the base of the people that died in the inside people hashtag enter is still alive yeah hashtag we hear you you don't need a scientist a neurologist to tell you that you need to rebuild your brand that means I mean like I said I mean like I said there's no right answer or no wrong answer but the way they should consider look at it from a business point of view the public are your customers the public are the one that we use your facility so consider even if you don't like them consider them up next is Elijah please stay with us