Lagos Floods

This is what happens when public goods are managed as private assets. The common resources that should protect everyone - drainage systems, emergency services, transportation networks - become tools for generating revenue rather than providing safety.

The same infrastructure collapse that creates flooding also eliminates the social and economic systems that usually provide some measure of security through predictability and community presence.

we're all vulnerable to the same systemic failures, all dependent on the same inadequate infrastructure, all subject to the same governmental negligence.

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

"When leaders ignore suffering, they transform from servants to oppressors, their silence a statement louder than any official announcement."

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.

The cruel irony is that as flood-prone areas expand across Lagos, the very populations least able to secure safe housing are being pushed into increasingly vulnerable locations, creating a deadly cycle of displacement, improvised shelter, and repeated disaster. Storing up human vulnerability like water behind a dam waiting to burst.

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

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.