The same engineering decisions that flooded Lekki have disrupted water flow patterns across the entire Lagos basin. Areas that residents thought were immune to flooding are discovering that infrastructure connects everything to everything else.

The mockery isn't just cruel; it's strategically stupid . It distracts attention from the real culprit - governmental decisions that have made flooding inevitable across wider and wider swaths of Lagos State. While people waste energy laughing at flood victims, the water spreads, the problems multiply, and the underlying causes remain unaddressed.

Change requires a kind of organised, sustained pressure. It requires citizens who refuse to accept dysfunction as normal and officials who understand their role as serving public welfare rather than private interests.

After each incident, the same ritual plays out. Apologies from officials with silly stamped letters posted on obscure social media pages especially on X, formerly Twitter. Promises of investigations. Announcements of new safety measures that never materialise or function properly when tested by reality. The pattern has become so predictable it... See more

Though there were speculations of Christian rapture for this day, this flooding wasn't an act of God. This was an act of government, dressed up as development but functioning as environmental vandalism on a massive scale.

This is how disaster works in a city like Lagos: unequally, unpredictably, but always revealing the invisible infrastructure of inequality that shapes who can escape and who must endure. A true island.

This food security crisis reveals another dimension of how infrastructure failure cascades through every aspect of daily life. Transportation, housing, commerce, education, and nutrition are all connected through networks that become visible only when they break down. The coastal road project didn't just create flooding; it created hunger,... See more

The question is whether Lagos residents will demand governance systems capable of long-term planning, environmental protection, and genuine accountability to community welfare.

Yet the project proceeded with the kind of bureaucratic momentum that treats environmental impact as an afterthought rather than a primary consideration