oyb:

gej muppet, petrol stations are overseen by dpr , DPR gives them yearly licenses to operate, conducts audits, shuts down stations, instructs on safety upgrades as required, - outside of municipal permits for construction and land use charge, lasg has little or no business with filling stations. the only thing lasg has insisted on is that all filling stations come with public restroom facilities - and they are pushing for restrooms that cater to the disabled. that is from a worker in downstream, not some armchair gej ignoramus

Let it be known that telecom operators will be deceiving themselves if they think the Ministry of Physical Planning laws can be challenged in court. While we will not stand on their way to the courts, we must warn the telecom operators not to take our present position as weakness or incapacity to act and perform our lawful duty.

“Telecom operators think they can hide under NCC to flout Lagos laws with impunity but they should be informed that Lagos can bite. You cannot mess with Lagos. No Nigerian company can do this in South Africa or Dubai or any other place in the world. They think they are bigger than the government,” he said.

According to Igbokwe, UFRU hopes that common sense would prevail now to avoid a situation where the unit would be forced to start dismantling their installations, including the mega base stations.

jmaine:

Guess it's the same DPR that levies huge monthly taxes on them . . .You must be very silly . . . .

geeez:

When they can kill their mothers for money, what on earth would a life mean to them. Lets see how this plays out.

Okija_juju: What is this Yoruba man talking about biko nu?!

So because Firecrackers shop burn, it makes firecracker business a bad thing.. What about gun shops, car shops (No thanks to those Mobile coffins owned by Yorubas call Molues..), cement shops (all the Yoruba peoples houses that keeps collapsing and killing Igbos in lagos)..

Abeg, make that man stop to reason like who get tribal mark for brain...

ilugunboy:

That is a huge understatement ..they deals in Mega-Corruption, next in quantity and quality to the corruption in the oil-industry.

emiye:

Ah , so you have moved from the wrong location of the gas station to "huge monthly taxes levied on them"

emiye:

You must be the accountant of the gas station.... to know the huge taxes levied on the station.
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emiye:

Yeye follow follow, wey no get mind of him own. Lost sheep following goats.

jmaine:

The eediot felt he could impress with established gibberish . . . .Now answer me very concisely

A) Who gives the Telecom operators licence to operate and also defines the standards they must adhere to . .

If your answer is the NCC

Now tell me why you feel the LASG can't regulate the irregular citing of fueling stations when they went into battle with the Telcos for irresponsible citing of their masts



http://www.naija247news.com/index.php/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4118:-lagos-state-govt-threatens-to-shut-down-mtn-glo-and-other-telecom-operators-over-mast-installation&catid=78:business-tech&Itemid=421

Am waiting for your hypocritical twist . . . . .

GenBuhari: what Fashola said was a statement that you would expect from government that working and that has health and safety laws in place that is implemented
Clearly this is not the case in Nigeria.

So whilst it is correct for Fashola ask businesses to be responsible he should also acknowledge the failings of his state govt and federal govt to make and implement sufficient Health and Safety laws.

oyb:

olodo - did you not read what i read about municipal approval?

any business will require approval from multiple authorities - what lasg will give is municipal approval based on approved drawings, eia if required, structural drawings (a must)

must you continue to highlight your ignorance?


please name your area where this "new" Oando station is so i can tell if you are not full of unadulterated bs

it is only recently lasg even lifted a freeze on new filling stations - and that freeze was in place because of the chaos of fuel queues on traffic.

also, please try to stay on topic instead of meandering like a lost sheep - from fireworks to filling station to telecomms -

abeg carry your acid and return to your masters nuts

jmaine:

Just another gibberish . . . You could not Justify your earlier view of DPR is all with respect to regulating citing of fueling stations . . .Then why were you giving me all those ramblings about DPR when you knew the LASG had powers to impose their laws on any business operating in their jurisdiction

Fools who feel they can peddle their view stupidly without getting called out . . .

Now back to the thread . . . .

oyb:


please tell me the location of the "new" oando station na - abi you have suddenly forgotten? or are you just full of sheet, like all the silly conjectures you have been posting?

Bliss4Lyfe: Fashola should ans dat question? Afterall, he is the one choppin the tax money from the business. As long as the imports are not drugs or ammunition or dangerous to liv, then they are legitimate business for a Nigerian.

We want to encourage people to seek an honest living not kidnappers, drug dealers or armed robbery. Perhaps Fashola is tryin to encourage the alternative to a honest living or create poverty and desperation.

Fires happen all over the world and as such his comments are off track. Improve the fire services Fashola...

zumbigbo: Naija = no law

Bliss4Lyfe: In all endeavours in life, u will find risk. Do people go hungry and stop seeking a means to an end becos Fashola is collectin his one through tax? Or do we simply try to remedy the risk and continue?

I am very comfortable, does not mean that i stop looking or caring to see if my neigbours are going hungry. Development shoud be sought at a pace that carries everybody along.

I am sorry to say but Fashola is coming across as an arrogant right wing elitist, with no care for the Average Joe.(poor folks)


Call me a leftist, but the poor and the rich alike deserve tlc from their gov.

Symphony007: In a country where jobs are rare why ban the importation of a commodity people use in getting income. Why is'nt it taxed and regulated to specific safe houses where it will be safe from fire. Everybody wins..the importers get their income and the government gets revenue. It's sureal!!

sucess001:

@ symphony...we didnt agree on the other issue( u know) but on this...ure spot on!

i dont understand why government likes looking @ symptoms rather than the problem. The problem is poverty and unemployment...u dontjust tell pple to search their souls and stop doing business when u dont address how food will get to his table...shows how dteached from the people our leaders re...

hoodboy: Only he who has never lit fireworks is free to cast blames. Accusing the business man of burning the landlord's building, are u trying to say the landlord was not aware that his tenant was into fireworks? Common this is a business that is conducted in the open. Fireworks have always made the season fun, so stop throwing sectional jabs like the entire nation hasn't benefited from fireworks. It is unfortunate what happened, and My condolences go to does who incurred losses, God will provide succor.

Symphony007: In a country where jobs are rare why ban the importation of a commodity people use in getting income. Why is'nt it taxed and regulated to specific safe houses where it will be safe from fire. Everybody wins..the importers get their income and the government gets revenue. It's sureal!!

seunfly: The problem of Nigeria is that everybody want to survive in a very harsh socio-political/economical society with decay check and balance system especialy at the level of corruption perpetuated by our leaders, gives citizens the gut to disregard the laws/rules, value for human life and moral value in as much as he will make money for him to survive. Therefore i will urge gov fash to stop complaining about peaple's reckles behaviors until all our leaders stop their nonsense and sensles attitude toward peaple survival and Nigeria's developments.

edo.girl:


Yet, when the government tries to introduce some public safety regulations, e.g ban on Okada (one of the most hazardous human engagements in Lagos)you guys fiercely criticise the government. You can't have it both ways. We are either going to recognise as a people that some activities pose such disproportionate threat to civilised living that they need to be regulated/prohibited, or we continue to exist and live like barbarians on the simplistic basis that we need to make a living at all cost.

geeez:

So a business that has been prohibited by government should be encouraged to thrive because it belongs to an Igboman abi? What makes you think the government of Lagos has not gone after those who own or were involved in the construction of those collapsed buildings? What also makes you think the LASG has not started a clamp down on buses that do not meet the minimum safety requirement for operarting within the metropolis.

These Igbo guys just never cease to amaze me. Almost everything illegal and criminal is perpetrated by them and while only a handful of their governors get to perform, they will ignore them and start taking eye drops for the Yoruba man's conjunctivitis

oyb:

you of all people - a worker in the oil industry should know better - fireworks are hazardous materials and should not be stored in residential areas.

oyb:

the usual - excuse oh, the federal govt is incompetent and kills nigerians daily, its alright for the rest of us to do so. 90% of those issues you have listed are within the purview of the fg s to petrol tankers, you have probably forgotten the numerous face offs lasg has had with tanker driver unions over this very issue - impounding tankers for driving during rush hour

so for you, it is alright for irresponsible businessmen to add their own quota to the danger we are all facing?



are you SURE you work in the oil and gas industry, with such a casual attitude towards accidents

this was an accident waiting to happen - take uncontrolled proliferation of fire works, out of control kids who throw them just about everywhere. .