Lagos State Commissioner for the
Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, has urged Lagosians not to take the
warning by the government on spreading clothes on house frontages,
buildings, fences located on major highways and streets as mere joke.
The government had said it would seal
any house found displaying such “unhygienic act,” while the residents
would also not be spared.
Bello said the warning was meant for the residents to adjust, rather than push it aside as another “government talk.”
A statement by the ministry on Sunday stated that Bello spoke in Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area on Saturday.
Bello said, “This act is becoming
embarrassing to the state and constituting a big environmental nuisance
to both residents and visitors in the state.
“When you go round the state, you will
notice in recent times that some Lagosians are in the habit of spreading
clothes on balconies of their houses, while you also notice security
guards hanging washed clothes on building fences on highways across the
state which is very wrong.
“You will also notice that on major
roads and bridges like Apapa, Carter Bridge, Eko Bridge, Third Mainland
Bridge, Falomo, Kingsway Road, washer men have turned bridges railings
to lines were they spread washed clothes.
“This unhygienic act will no longer be
tolerated by the government, as this act portrays us in the state as
people without decency and disrespect for the environment.”
The commissioner said in order to curb
the behaviour, Environmental Health Officials in the state and all the
57 local governments and LCDAs’ sanitation officials, waste management
authority staff and Kick Against Indiscipline corps would start removing
such clothes “which will be regarded henceforth as dirt or waste and
they will be taken to the dump sites.”
Bello said the present administration’s
effort to beautify and transform the state to investors’ haven should
not be thwarted by such “unhygienic” act.
The commissioner, who stated that some
traders had turned major roads and highways to markets, added that such
would no longer be tolerated.
He said, “We have received complaints
from motorists, landlord associations and others that traders have
converted drainage paths and alignments to markets thereby causing to
serious traffic congestion as well as flooding of some areas in the
state.
“The State Government hereby advises such traders to immediately vacate those drainage paths.”
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