Fashola on TV Show Urges Nigerians on Positive Image

Babatunde Fashola, Lagos State governor has charged Nigerians to be ready to tell more of their positive stories, as no one else will do it for them.
Speaking at the premiere of Talk with Funmi Iyanda, a 13-week programme on television produced by Funmi Iyanda, he said it was necessary for every Nigerian to tell the Nigerian story from a bright angle, while urging all to reckon with the power of the media because of their power, be it print or electronic. 
“For too long, our country, our people, assets have been the object of mediums like the camera, but being an object is one side of the story. There is someone else behind the camera looking at all of us.”
If he continues to see chains, masks and violent people, there is nothing he can record that will make a difference. This initiative of Funmi Iyanda is like a lonely road, but it is a road that is most commendable that we should get behind the camera to tell our own stories,” he stated.
Fashola said that people can see the same thing but interpret them differently:  “In Idanre, we saw nature’s gift to us, you saw hills that are not different from the Stable Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. It all depends on who is reporting, because if somebody else was looking, he may say oh! I saw scrawny looking children who were naked.”
 “We saw the different reptiles that God has blessed us. These are the same reptiles and animals that we watch for hours on-end and pay so much to watch on the Discovery Channel.”
He reiterated that with the new programme, Funmi Iyanda has shown the beauty and a flaw of the people, adding that it was an effort that must be sustained and emulated by all well meaning people.