Rasheed Osinowo
There all, I am Rasheed Osinowo from Lagos, Nigeria; a Masters Degree holder in Urban and Regional Planning. A Consultant urban planning and Project head at Osinowo and Associates.
Location Lagos, Nigeria
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My name is Town Planner Rasheed Osinowo an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria and the University of Lagos, Nigeria where he bagged his bachelor and masters in Urban and Regional Planning respectively.
Tel. Osinowo is a full member of the Nigeria Institute of Town Planners (NITP). Town Planners registration of Nigeria (TOPREC) and the...
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Thank you to all our instructors and participants
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Thank for your the opportunity given to benefit from all of these.
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What came to mind is the ability of the informal settlers to take the bull be the horn and face their future. They new what they wanted and were ready to do it of cause with a listening government.
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No doubt about the level of intellectual capacity that is gained here. We all have no choice to keep pushing for a better society at large.
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I can't agree less, the there is need to decentralize, educate the people and put in very good system that will support the system once the needful is done. Even by the time infrastructure is improved upon, there is still need to plan ahead for a sustainable future.
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There is great similarities amidst African Nations and the government system. We often say government not knowing fully that it is human that we are talking about. Government come and go with different agenda and selfish ends hereby leading to project abandonment and bad management of the city and informal sector of the economy.
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The problem with city transport system is the fact that government claim to be in charge but not ready to make reasonable investment in transportation. The issue of Okada usage on the highway is due to failure of government to fully tackle the problem of transportation. So, every time we see a problem with solution coming from the people it wont meet the...
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The is no doubt that the need for infrastructure is key to the existence of the human race. But, the issue here is that some members of the society most especially the high class see themselves as worthy of the benefit the city got to offer. Things change when government decide to make thing better for all and take care of its own most especially those in...
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The fact remains that the informal settlement occupy very lean areas in the society. Areas that are prone to hazard and flooding, valley and very difficult terrain areas. So, in resettlement and upgrading there is need to look at their social cultural background too. Like what we have here in Lagos, they are called "Ilaje" those that actually settle close to...
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Just as it applies to most African countries; the informal settlement are at great risk reason why the government need to focus more on them. More so, when disaster occurs; they have very little shock absorber in terms of cash or material to prevent or reduce the impact.
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There is no doubt that great efforts have been in place to transform the city/informal settlement as it were. It is happy to note that, the government among other partners are doing so much to raise the living standard of informal dwellers.
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This is a good approach as i have always though of the kind of solution that will be real-time to prevent most vulnerable in the city. By working together and with government a lot can be achieved.
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Looks very attractive....i can't wait
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Some initiative of in the slums is the Slum dweller international although informal settlement should be used instead of slum. Members in Lagos have a leader who oversees all their activities and work with the government to bring about lasting solution.
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Good talk, but I choose to differ a bit by the statement "we know exactly what is good for us" not everybody know what is good for then as a commoner. For example; you feel the next thing on the agenda is to fix road someone might come and say needs food. You might say education is next while someone will say No! it's something else.
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Yes, what Agape Savings Group is a welcome development but I believe part of the money should go into the community development and at a stage they should be able to use the money and collapse their land to give way for better structure that will be accessible.
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I believe participatory planning will work better once the community leader and those that have say in the community champions it like the traditional leader, women leader, youths leader and some technocrats.
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Of the three approaches, the rights-based approach has not worked to some extent in Lagos and example of Otodogbame despite court action the Omo Onile through the government went ahead to evict the people from the land.
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Thank you for coming up with this, in Lagos we have all ties of government in place including Federal, State and Local Government but the State is having dominance over the Local Government (LG) which has made them toothless (not being able to do anything). All the responsibilities of the LG is being taking over to the extent of Physical planning.
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Yes, the municipal government would need to rethink and redirect the ways in which the city is currently managed. I believe this can be achieved if we all put our hands on the desk.
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Yeah, this is really interesting. But, apart from the fact that Local Government or what we have in Lagos as Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) are not given full autonomy. They also have their own excesses too. At a point in time, the workers union have to write the state government to stop processing their salary through the Local Government Areas....
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Thank you for this opportunity, what is happening over there is almost same here too. Government see people living in informal settlement as illegal occupants so they use all forms of ways to get them evicted. It is even good in Seria Leaon as the government is now considering them through their regulation. This is far from reality in Lagos, people struggle to...
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Week 3; Very impressive contents...know I have lots to learn here.
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How can this be the peoples' reality? The government should rise up to the occasion and understand that these are its people who contribute to governance through taxes and other means.
More should be done by looking into how they spend their nightlife, the issue of insecurity, rape and how they bury their died is very key. -
But, why should they be the one to massively invest into some of the key infrastructures in their locality when they pay taxes?
The best policy insight to correct the informality is the Public, Private, Participation and People (PPPP) which brings about the 4th "P". The people are given a better title with the condition that they will release their land for... -
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The issue about eviction is the fact that; the set of people evicted today will occupy another side of the city tomorrow. They should jointly look at possible solution to this more so; where were the government when the informal environment was in the making
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This is very strange, a people you claim are informal yet you still collect taxes from them and yet you failed to give them what they deserve. To me, the issue of taxes coming in at this time is like a bribe from the people to the government.
A civilian Barack as it was put due to high population density, the government can do much more for them with the... -
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This is very true...there is a need to profer an alternative solution to the present state of the city.
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Of cause, the informal sector needs to exchange their skills and result of their labour with good purchasing power which will better come from the formal sector.
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Obviously, the formal sector can't do without the informal sector and vice versa. In actual sense, if the issue of ego is removed; the government only need to monitor the way things are being done in the informal sector to give them some dignity. Provision of essential items like good waters, power, transport and all other social amenities that will make them...
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In fact not just what they fill of gap; the informal sector is the normal way of life but once the government realizes a different way of life they intended to replace the norm "informality" with another way of life by way of testing. And once they fail; the so-called informal sector will be there for the government again to cover their lapses.
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Apart from the actual underlying motivations for the displacement of informal settlements is for-profit; there is also the possibility of social class. People not having the interest of others at heart for good. More of saying we deserve this and they not being educated should not be competing with us in any way.
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In addition to the discussion of formal and informal sectors of the society, we now have the Public, Private, Partnership taking charge of some aspects of the society. This could be targeted as a semi-formal activity.
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1. I work within the formal sector of my State, Lagos Nigeria although I am aware of the informal sector being once in such a situation.
2. The goods and services are provided majorly by the private sector, the people within my community but on a different scale. some are large while others are not. So on a good day, we purchase basic household items like... -
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I think, by and large, the city council also allow for informality by allowing and collecting money from people reclaiming land. What they should have done it to have a master plan that spells out how the area will look like also carrying out an impact assessment of such land before giving way for construction.
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Sincerely, it's not a major occurrence in our cities to see city that would demonstrate either spatial justice or diversity or both rather what we see often in Lagos, Nigeria is total clearance like what happened in Otodogbame, Ijora Badia and Ilubirin previous inhabitants. A positive one I can remember is that of Isale Igangan, Lagos Island, Lagos where the...
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Urban planning is the art and science of ordering the use of land, communication rout, infrastructure, road networks including social and economic aspects of the urban space to achieve maximum degree of aesthetics, convenience and comfortability.
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Urban Development is the transformation of urban space in terms of increment in size, capacity, infrastructure, population and general our look of the urban space.
