{"id":103877,"date":"2023-03-27T05:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103877"},"modified":"2023-03-27T05:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:53:20","slug":"uk-condemns-ethnic-profiling-says-lagos-should-be-cosmopolitan-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/uk-condemns-ethnic-profiling-says-lagos-should-be-cosmopolitan-city\/","title":{"rendered":"UK condemns ethnic profiling, says Lagos should be cosmopolitan city"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1761450186251660359\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Kingdom says the strength and beauty of Lagos lie in its blend of culture and religion and should be recognised as a cosmopolitan city.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBen Llewellyn-Jones, British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, spoke on Sunday in an interview with Nigeria Info FM.<\/p>\n<p>A few days to the Lagos governorship election, divisive statements and ethnic slurs were rife on and off social media.<\/p>\n<p>The division and ethnic profiling reached a crescendo when voters of south-east extraction were attacked in some parts of Lagos during the governorship polls.<\/p>\n<p>Condemning the attacks, Llewellyn-Jones said such moves would only impede the growth of Lagos as many mega cities around the world have recorded huge strides because of their diversity of human capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you live in London, you are a Londoner, a British-Pakistan, is a Londoner. The British Prime Minister lives in London. My boss, the British foreign Secretary is clearly British-Sierra Leone and lives in London, they are Londoners,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it that people who pay taxes, who work, who provide teachers, who built businesses, who create jobs, who live in Lagos, who happen to be from a different ethnicity to some other people are not Lagosians? Of course, they are. The strength of Lagos is its diversity, and if Lagos can\u2019t be that kind of cosmopolitan melting pot of culture and language and all the things it should be, then really how is Lagos going to succeed?<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cPeople chanting anti-Igbo messages and walking on the streets by polling units on elections day is totally unacceptable. Not just in Lagos, but also in Enugu and Rivers were we had our teams as well and many other places.<br \/>\nIt was a very much tougher day for voters which shouldn\u2019t be. But we saw people vote in spite of that, which is truly impressive about the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the right question to people who have been driving these ethnic kind of languages would be, when you go to cities around the world like London, what do you see when you see the success of those places? Because the success of those places are not built upon division but upon unity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that people who are still using that kind of language should stop, and the party they represent should be saying to them \u2018stop now, this is not in our name and you are wrong\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After winning his re-election bid as governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu called for unity in the state and condemned attacks fuelled by ethnic discord.<\/p>\n<p>He said elections should be based on competence and experience rather than ethnicity or religion, adding that the \u201ctrue Lagos spirit\u201d is a welcoming and liberal.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom says the strength and beauty of Lagos lie in its blend of culture and religion and should be recognised as a cosmopolitan city. 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