Badagry

Yes, yes, yes.

You know, when we visited Lola Pedro, which was a huge honor, at her distillery in Badagry, outside of Lagos, we got on a small motorboat and we, we drove in the boat down Badagry Creek to Agoja, where she's building her distillery, which is a mud structure.

She brought people, she brought a, a French cognac maker, she brought a, an architect.

Lola Pedro is a visionary who finds talent and creates this incredible legacy, and she made us taste juniper berry-

... and asked us, "Do you taste anything of a juniper berry?" In this product, and we had to say no.

And she said, 'cause the, the British said, "Oh, well this is just gin," because their only view of an alcoholic spirit was gin.

We have to be honest about this because we were taken to Badagry, which was the location where so many Nigerians were sold in the slave trade.

And Lola Pedro is the person who knows exactly how many bottles of gin-

And the journey between getting married and staying married is a very, very...

It's like from Badagry to Epe.

It's a very long journey.

And you can't use your legs.

The reason is simple.

We've systematically and consistently ejected people out of their houses and forced them to relocate to places like Nibeduleki, Eleko, Badagri, Korudu, and remove them from their economic centers because this is where they earn a living from.

So that means that first, they cannot rent a place to stay here.

Two is that if they go to Eleko, They can't afford to come to Victoria Island or Lake Oikui every day because the pay cannot cover the cost of their transportation to and fro.

And Some of the emerging threats are the fact that counterfeiters, that is those who make these counterfeit products, use chemical dyes like carcinogenic Sudan dyes in palm oil, which we spoke about yesterday.

They alter expiration dates on foods, use contaminated water like we saw in that illegal juice factory in Badagry yesterday.

And they even make this contaminated water, they use it in dispenser bottles and they falsify anti-malarial and antibiotic medications.

Now, fake drugs, we would have to understand that fake drugs contribute significantly to organ failure, treatment failure, and even preventable deaths, you know, for different issues, chronic kidney disease, cancer, malaria, even pneumonia across sub-Saharan Africa.

The Lagos state government needs to put in place stringent measures to avoid loss of lives.

Thank you so much for sending this message all the way from Badagry.

I think the authorities, Lagos State Government really needs to look at this.

LHC is saying that trucks are parked indiscriminately on the road that leads to the Seme border.