This is important. Early yesterday the workshop and homes to the trainees under the tutelage of the first female auto mechanic in Nigeria, Sandra Aguebor Ekperouh situated in 1004, Victoria Island was invaded and sealed off by over 45 members of the Water Waste Management and Sewage Board an arm of Ministry of Environment.
The workshop was sealed off because they land which the Lady Mechanic has been occupying for over 10 years was said belongs to the Lagos State Government. The sealed off land is the home of some of the girls which is rent free and she also pays them salary.
Sandra a celebrated first female mechanic is a trained auto mechanic who has been practising for the last 27 years. She owns workshops in Lagos, Benin, Kaduna and Abuja where she train over 200 females as auto mechanics. She also runs an NGO 'The Lady Machanic Initiative' that see to the welfare of girls in her State Edo, who otherwise would have turned out as prostitutes. In three weeks time, 50 of her students all female will be graduating.
This is a real situation because personally I don't want to imagine what will become of those girls and where she going to move to. This is something governor Fashola need to see to.
I can also see a man being dragged by the police during fracas that happened when they were sealing off the place.
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