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STOP SPREADING YOUR CLOTHES OUTSIDE - LAGOS COMMISIONER

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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