The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it would seal up any building where residents displayed their clothes outside indiscriminately.
The state Commissioner for Environment, Mr Tunji Bello, gave the warning while speaking with newsmen shortly after monitoring the monthly sanitation exercise in Egbe-Idimu area of the state.

He said spreading of washed clothes on fences and frontage of buildings was becoming the norm in some parts of the state.
According to him, the practice constitutes a nuisance to the environment.
The commissioner also warned residents, who wash and spread their clothes on bridge railings on major roads to desist from such act, saying tough actions would be taken against erring persons.

“We are telling residents who wash and spread clothes on the streets, major highways and other places outside their homes to desist from the practice as it constitutes a great environmental nuisance.
“This is not good for our people and our state. We have directed the officials of the Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) to pack those clothes as refuse wherever they see them.

“We will not hesitate to seal up buildings or houses outside of which compounds residents hang their clothes indiscriminately,“ Bello said.
He also urged the residents to create spaces within the confines of their homes to spread their clothes rather than doing so in places “not friendly to the environment.’’
The commissioner said that major roads and bridges were not the right places for the spreading of clothes, adding that those indulging in such practice were risking their lives.
Bello had earlier decried the erection of structures on flood plains and pipelines by residents of Egbe-Idimu.


He said that the situation was a major source of flooding and other disasters.
The commissioner urged the residents to remove such offending structures to ensure their safety.
He also said the state government would demolish the Orisumbare Cattle Market in the area and relocate the traders because it was erected on a drainage channel.

The commissioner urged those affected to show understanding on the government’s plan, saying that relocation of the market was to pave way for the planned drainage development project in the area.
The market leader, Mr Musibau Jolaosho, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the state government`s planned relocation of the market came as surprise to the traders.

He said that the market, which had the state government`s approval, had been in existence for over 20 years, serving other 36 markets in Alimosho Local Government area with beef.
“This place is actually one of the six approved abattoirs in the state. We are worried about the government`s plan, especially as we are about improving things in the market.

“But, if the state government still wants to carry out its plan, we can`t fight the government.
“But, we appeal that the government should immediately provide another place for us so that we can go on with our lives" he said

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Misplaced priorities. How will dat put food on d table for the common man?

Good move..

About time...

He said spreading of washed
clothes on fences and frontage
of buildings was becoming the
norm in some parts of the state.
According to him, the practice
constitutes a nuisance to the
environment.

that is a very good move, most especially those ladies that hang those things that look like catapult and gobble outside!

This play is turning to madness. If LAWMA see your designer jeans, dem go pack am go dey wear for dem yard. Govt is legalising stealing. When this nonentity called Fashola deporter some of my Yoruba brothers to Osun and Oyo states and later some other ones to Onitsha, I knew his madness go soon show colour. I beg my brothers and sisters if you have only one jeans don't spread it outside to dry oooo so that someone will not walk naked and be packed and deported to Osun or Onitsha or Kano by Fashola. The guy is suffering fron naccissism and this is worse than megalomania which is dame patience's disease.

Musiwa! Musiwa!! Musiwa!!! I beg go help me pack my pata and singlet wey I dry for the front of baba Lasisi's house before Fashola send LAWMA to come steal them.

lily_tender: This play is turning to madness. If LAWMA see your designer jeans, dem go pack am go dey wear for dem yard. Govt is legalising stealing. When this nonentity called Fashola deporter some of my Yoruba brothers to Osun and Oyo states and later some other ones to Onitsha, I knew his madness go soon show colour. I beg my brothers and sisters if you have only one jeans don't spread it outside to dry oooo so that someone will not walk naked and be packed and deported to Osun or Onitsha or Kano by Fashola. The guy is suffering fron naccissism and this is worse than megalomania which is dame patience's disease.

Musiwa! Musiwa!! Musiwa!!! I beg go help me pack my pata and singlet wey I dry for the front of baba Lasisi's house before Fashola send LAWMA to come steal them.

are lawma officials on nl?

some nlers are always complaining about seeing ladies' pant hanging outside, what do we infer from this?

Buhahahahahaha... This man has gone mad again


So you mean, I shouldn't hang my shirt on a fence I built with my money, not Fashola father's money!

Mehn... Blood go flow wella o... I go waste LASTMAN blood oo...

Good for them;awon oloorun.Eko baje ti.

Lack of job for Fasola. Let's see how he will go to Lagos villages and interior suburbs and ask them not to hang their clothes outside.

Is like Tinube want to start importing tumble dryer. Laff wan kill me.

This is a bit more about the thoughtlessness in the lagos state seat of power. The first thing that would result from this is the increase in the number of people who were wet clothing to work and also the number of people who were unwashed clothes in lagos where it rains daily and very little sun shine.

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From legislators fight/messing to legalizing child Marriage. Seems the silly season has caught up with Lagos.

Its been a roachy July in Nigeria.

fashola dey crazy

Lol what

Fashola tryna raise money from every possible means, half of which will still be looted at the end of the day!!!

Why do some Nigerians find it difficult to read? Did you even read the entire post at all? Did you read the part that says "spreading clothes on bridge railings on major roads..."? Keep them off the fences and frontage of buildings too.

Who cares if you spread your "rusted" boxers and smelly panties on your television? Just keep em off public places. Is that too much to ask? Keep your wet clothes in your compounds or around your house...there are cloth lines.

I saw a woman drying her wet clothes on cars packed outside a house. Is that normal? Gosh!

lily_tender: This play is turning to madness. If LAWMA see your designer jeans, dem go pack am go dey wear for dem yard. Govt is legalising stealing. When this nonentity called Fashola deporter some of my Yoruba brothers to Osun and Oyo states and later some other ones to Onitsha, I knew his madness go soon show colour. I beg my brothers and sisters if you have only one jeans don't spread it outside to dry oooo so that someone will not walk naked and be packed and deported to Osun or Onitsha or Kano by Fashola. The guy is suffering fron naccissism and this is worse than megalomania which is dame patience's disease.

Musiwa! Musiwa!! Musiwa!!! I beg go help me pack my pata and singlet wey I dry for the front of baba Lasisi's house before Fashola send LAWMA to come steal them.

Bushwa

Say "NO" to backwardness.

The key word here is INIDISCRIMINATE!

Nigerians make noise about everything yet they don't want to do anything. Most of the people crying foul here have probably never visited Lagos.

Confused lots!

If u call this a wrong move, I wonder what can ever be right. If Nigerians stop complaining, d world will end.

LATIA coming soon...Lagos Toilet Inspection Agency.

Some people seem to have run out of ideas. So people who don't have 'compounds' should eat their clothes.

fashola is too obsessed with this western culture,mentality and gadget. we are african we need to keep it real like our forefather

spread clothes on public places and go to jail! chikena, i dont have time to make noise!

Whether anyone believes it or not, Fashola's govt is turning dictatorial.

Nonsense!

are lawma officials on nl?

some nlers are always complaining about seeing ladies' pant hanging outside, what do we infer from this?r

are lawma officials on nl?

some nlers are always complaining about seeing ladies' pant hanging outside, what do we infer from this?r

washing machine and dryer with imported electricity from SA - problem solve!

Well done!
If you can't obey the local laws then move back to your village.

Trust frog eyed Tinubu to make money from this dictatorial move by his puppet Fashola.