Road side mechs will be smiling to the bank.

This is a serious problem not just caused by the present administration but a result of many years of poor town planning system, poor drainage system, and lackadaisical  attitude of people to proper environmental sanitation.

The government on his part needs to clear the waterways and the blocked drainage, construct new and modern ones, make legislation on building plans more stringent, become more vigilant and strict with workers at the urban and regional town planning offices who give backdoor approvals to illegal construction when they in fact know such constructions are being done on waterways.

They need to provide waste bins at every junction in the state while such bins must be emptied on a regular basis. Commercial vehicle owners must be forced to put waste bin in the vehicles and the passengers encouraged to use such bins. Whoever failed to oblige whether the commercial bus driver or any member of the public should be made to pay a relatively huge amount of money as fine or spend some time in jail (between 1-3months) depending on the gravity of your offense.

Good drainage is also key in combating this menace!

If you don't know how to swim, don't come to Lagos. Shikena

]Road side mechs will be smiling to the banks.



do you want to switch job, al be it, temporarily?

This will never happen in Owerri because Mbakwe built proper drainage systems almost as good
as the london one (underground networked) except for the open gutters.
God bless that man and his family for us.

A lot of structural flaws cannot be corrected in lagos because they have been overtaken by crowdy buildings.
still fashola should do something about the flood and not just give public holidays.

This downpour has created an avenue for d touts and robbers to be attacking pple majorly along oshodi apapa eexpressway,govmnt should wake up to their task and rescue us.

I weep at the reality of the Nigerian condition. My heart saddens each day I see a nation having so much doing so little. LAGOS IS FLOODED! Women, children, men washed off and drowned in the flood that overtook the city yesterday. Homes flooded, cars damaged, so much went awry on this day that the skies opened without let.

While I will not embark on the futility of demanding why the Govt did not construct and desilt drains to avoid these frequent calamities, it troubles me that human beings were left to the mercy of the elements by a Govt that they once trusted and still fund. Where were the Police, Civil Defence, Army, NEMA, LASEMA and the plethora of agencies that’s it’s our Govt’s favourite past-time to inaugurate? In civilized climes, the security agencies are quickly deployed in search and rescue operations to ensure no life is lost. But here, we suffer the damages and count the cost thereafter, waiting for the next event in a zombie-like existence.

And the one that galls me the most? We move on… like nothing happened. We are on our desks already doing the time. Our psyches so battered that nothing moves us anymore. Who will sound the rally call? Who will shout the battle cry?

It's all about the rain, Praise the Lord!!! someone said. The Lord just gave me a new wet infinity FX45 jeep!!! I was just coming our of my house and i saw the flood bringing in my blessing!!!Indeed it's a shower of blessing and its marvelous in my sight, the Lord will surprise someone with duplexes, blackberries, shoes, umbrellas etc.

Apapa-oshodi Express way, first rainbow.

More

My area.

@tolu001 and hotestlegs, u are rite. Uve said all i wanted to. Let the brainless pple continue to blame Acn, Pdp and others for their misfortunes and self imposed woes. Instead of proffering solutions they are busy blaming the government of the day.

this is serious ooooooooooooooooooo

u chop biscuit, throway the wrapper for ground, u drink bottled water u throway am fiam commot from ur car! u  buy pure water, u drink am finish u throway the non biodegradable  sachet ontop the main road, u no send abi? evert time dem go dey shout fro media! dispose refuse properly! dont throway dutty for grown! mba! DENM NO GO HEAR WORD!
FASHOLA IS WORKING LAGOSIANS ARE STUBBORN!

serious, at my area, where they are constructing that 8 lane road,the drainages were so deep that i was afraid that an adult may fall inside and he wont be able to come out! they had barely finish constructing the drainages when i started seeing refuse pilling up dere, most of which are pure water sachet,cans, plastics etc! that was wen i truly knew that we are the cause of our own disasters!  God help Lagos,God help Nigeria!

I  just imagine how ajegunle ikorodu road area will look like.

To further enhance transportation in Lagos state, Lamata has taken delivery of 150 CRT's.   These CRT's will be deployed immediately to ease the transportation problems of Lagosians on all Lagos roads.   

At the event launching ceremony, the CRT's Canoe Rapid transport were draped in colourful ribbons.

With d rising sea level,lagos can easily be submerged without proper channelling and fortiications against watery elements

Lagos state Government should be humble enough to consult Governpr Akpabio of Akwa-Ibom state on how he constructed the drainage system in Uyo

BREAKING NEWS!!!
I learnt dat d Rain has reshuffled
lagos,houses are being moved 2
new locations. ,
Eko hotel now in Abule Egba,
, Mile 2 now in orile,
kirikiri prison now in oniru,
Unilag now in ikorodu,
Shoprite now in Ilasamaja, Alausa Secretariat now in
Badagry.

Pls confirm ur own location b4 settin out,

mechris:


do you want to switch job, al be it, temporarily?

I don't mind, they make unlimited amount of money with their skill.

end time is approaching

so m

Abuloma80:

Disaster can be natural or man made. That is their (Lagos) version of BOKO HARAM!

man made natural disaster

^^^^

For once i am supporting the govt.
what exactly is the present govt expected to do?construct drainages in the sky?
the truth of the matter is that half of lagos ought notto be habited by houses and persons.there is a limit to which you can cheat nature.all these sandfillings and building houses everywhere are catching up with us.
even the existing drainages are not maintained by lagosians.fashola can not deploy workers to clean drainage 24/7.both the rich and poor in lagos are the dirtiest set of humans i have ever seen.throw away your refuse from your rolls royce and out of the keke marwa as if it is a sport for which you will receive a medal.
the roads are littered,the gutters are filled with filth and you expect not to be flooded in the rains?
there is little fashola can do short of demolishing half of the houses in lagos to build more drainages and carrying a cane to flog both rich and poor (big and small) as they litter the town.
Fashola will not deliver us from our filth.

horrible pics but this is what poor drainage and heavy rain can cause.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/07/11/5-found-dead-in-ikeja/

mbulela:

there is little fashola can do short of demolishing half of the houses in lagos to build more drainages,

If that what it takes, then he just has to man up, get his engineers to identify those houses blocking drains/natural waterways, demolish them, then compensate the property owners, then build proper drainage and canals. Half of central Paris was demolished in the late 19th century by the French government to create the modern city that we know today.

BTW what happened to the Lagos-Ogun mega-city project? The future of Lagos is in Ogun state, not Lekki corridor and Eko Atlantic etc. Fashola should focus on re-energizing the mega-city and getting the FG to play its role.

i learnt that flood raided a house somewhere in agege, swept away 1000 naira notes and left a change of 150 naira that was never there before . uuuunnnnmmmmmmmmmmmmhhh!!!!

tank GOD d rain hz stop for d main time,i heard it will last til thursday only GOD can help in dat situation cuse more pple will die from this disaster,we shud not only blame d govt here but all of us,dis moring i saw pple trowin in deir rubish inside the water,wat harm do u tink that wil cuse more if u ask,some Nigerian realy need n attitudinal change if not we cant progress in this country, imagine wen i was teling one man wat he s doing s not rite,hear him out ( dis na my opportunity to tro all d dirty wey dey my house) u see dont blame GOV FASHOLA more, we need to come together to move this country forward its only want we have.




dis re pic i got from my face book page,