olaboy1:


I don't know what miracle we expect to achieve in raining season when we have the poorest of drainage system in the world and then our attitude in dumping refuse anywhere and everywhere. I don't think we should be complaining at all.

Generally we should have waste bins at every 500 meters and the job of the local government is to dispose the bins daily with mini specialized equipment designed to do that job.

olaboy1:


I don't know what miracle we expect to achieve in raining season when we have the poorest of drainage system in the world and then our attitude in dumping refuse anywhere and everywhere. I don't think we should be complaining at all.

Generally we should have waste bins at every 500 meters and the job of the local government is to dispose the bins daily with mini specialized equipment designed to do that job.

AntiWailer:


Really ?

Wait for your turn then.

He will soon pack gutter reach ur side.

Danielmoore:
Ambode is working indeed
Awon werey

EnigmaticEnigma:
Black man is really stupid, as evident on this thread.

Instead of you guys to advocate for covered drainage like they have in advanced countries, so that dirt can never enter, you are here asking people not to throw dirt in an OPEN gutter

Nigerians must be one of the daftest creatures on the face of the earth.

How can u prevent people from throwing stuff in an open gutter Heck, even road and animal debris, might naturally find it's way into an OPEN gutter.


Why not, for once in your daft lives, advocate for a closed drainage system

I guess though Nigerians are born to suffer, mtcheew

millionz:
This is how colorful surulere flood is

stacyadams:
if u tell them to clear gutter,them no go hear..well e no affect my area for okota..

DerideGull:
Fashola worked like a magician. I once said that a goat could look like a genius as governor of Lagos State.

Collins10:
Hey! You've said enough for a day! Now, shut up and go to bed! Who are you calling stupid Are your Parents not black people? Please take your time o! What was all that insult for? Haba!!!

dumie:


Funny you..
Its not that bad in lekki this time around

mayorkyzo:
So sad anytime there's heavy downpour most major cities gets flooded..government has to look into making good drainages and citizens need to stop indiscriminate dumping of refuse on the drainage systems...

EnigmaticEnigma:
Black man is really stupid, as evident on this thread.

Instead of you guys to advocate for covered drainage like they have in advanced countries, so that dirt can never enter, you are here asking people not to throw dirt in an OPEN gutter

Nigerians must be one of the daftest creatures on the face of the earth.

How can u prevent people from throwing stuff in an open gutter Heck, even road and animal debris, might naturally find it's way into an OPEN gutter.


Why not, for once in your daft lives, advocate for a closed drainage system

I guess though Nigerians are born to suffer, mtcheew

sume67roch:
holy sh*t....someone dn make canoe already sef..

olaboy1:


Asking the govt to construct an underground drainage it's almost same cost of constructing tram tracks without the trams across the whole of Lagos, which do you think we should advocate for first.

The point many of us are making is the Nigerian populace changing his living habits. We need to start from there before we can move forward.

Ajibel:
Ambode is to be blamed for this. Because of his beef with Fashola, he stopped Fashola's waste program for his. Stopped the monthly sanitation and here, look at what we have.

veekid:
Ambode sef

CaptainFM1:
A city under water! A time is coming that we will all have to learn how to paddle. Seriously, we will start buying canoes instead of cars.

EnigmaticEnigma:


Sorry Bro, but if u throw a bottle in your bath tub, will that bottle make its way to your bathroom drainage

Same difference here.

You can't construct roads with open tiny gutters and expect all of the population to act in unison to avoid littering. That's like saying you can tell everyone in the world to accept world peace and all the wars just totally come to an end.

There is almost nowhere in this world that people don't litter.

I was in the UK once and I spotted some guy in a car look left and right, then proceed to flinging his mcdonalds food bag on the road, along with his empty soda drink.

Difference is, that trash will never get a chance to enter the drainage there since its covered. So worst case scenario is that you have a dirty environment for a while before street sweepers come in to clean the garbage.

Bottom line is, build closed drainage systems since you already know that you can never stop people from littering. This doesn't mean you won't still enforce littering laws.

fowosh:

he didn't stop the monthly sanitation...an issue erupted some months ago , a man was arrested on a faithful sat DAT was meant to b for sanitation,in lieu of dat,d man sued Lagos state to court and he won...den d court asked Lagos state to truncate d monthly saturday sanitation

EnigmaticEnigma:


Ola, why can't we do them simultaneously

OK, forget about deep drainages for a sec. Let's focus on just the covers for gutters.

Can't we have all the gutters covered Walk around your neighbourhood and see just how many gutters are uncovered.

Remember that just one street with an uncovered drain could potentially cause mayhem for a whole community, as that would be the street were garbage would freely enter the drain channels, causing blockage even at locations with covered gutters.

Can't we also modify the covers to include filter meshes How much is it really to mould a block of cement, that the government can't do this consistently everywhere

Mould covers that include filter meshes that filter out objects larger than 2cm in width. Then place these covers everywhere and I mean everywhere,on every freakinggg gutter, shikena

I don't think that solution is that difficult or expensive.

Obviously, the government should still enforce littering laws, but my argument here is that, when you design, your design has to account for flaws and overcome them.