As mrs. is a minister, will be in permanent suffocation with the enormous volume and diversity of subjects that the ministry that was given to her has to attend.
Now, it happens that, if attending to matters pertaining to his ministry is a task that one cannot and certainly does not want to excuse, the same will have to happen in relation to assisting a citizen who comes to him.
I easily perceive that this missive will be, perhaps unpleasantly, contributing to overloading the already absorbing and overwhelming tasks, yours and your advisors, attaches, secretaries, consultants, specialists, technicians, who surround you to relieve you of the exhausting work of taking complete the immensity of what he set out to do.
I also recognize and do the justice of understanding that, given the vastness of the immense territory swarming with problems in its portfolio and that, no matter how much work involved in rigorous planning and careful organization, something may have been forgotten in the back of one of the countless drawers of the house, or has not been introduced in the files of the computers which, I have no doubt, it is customary for his ministry to use so that there is no forgetting in the services.
That's right, mrs. Minister, I see myself thus obliged to come and remind you that all these people of yours know poorly and tend to forget about the XNUMXth century Fort which uses the names of S. Roque or S. José, but better known as Forte da Meia Praia , lost in miserable misfortune somewhere on the sandy beach of the municipality of Lagos.
Frankly I tell you, mrs. minister, if the poor strong doesn't interest you, or anyone in the ins and outs of your ministry or in the various government bodies where you are stuck, don't keep waiting to do a deal with him that, in advance, you know there's no one Pick it up and return it to the city, which the small fort has already helped to protect and where there will be those who know how to lift it out of poverty and recover it as a public good.
The citizen that I am and sign, is hoping that Lagos will soon have the heightened pleasure of knowing that Mme. minister knew how to solve this disgrace.
Now, as it is known that the possession of the fort has circulated among other official departments, the National Treasury, the military station in Lagos, the Customs, the Fiscal Guard, not to mention values, evidently Mme. Minister will know, I trust, transfer it free of charge to the Municipality.
By the way, I ask permission to add, if by chance you have forgotten to provide you with this information, that this would not be an unprecedented and unheard of audacity of yours, as it happened in Lagos years ago with another much more important historical heritage and also a disabled element in the defense of Bay and city of Lagos, the Ponta da Bandeira Fortress. It was military, became municipal.
Thank you very much.
Jose Veloso
Author José Veloso is an architect
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