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Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by AutoReportNG: 3:01pm On Sep 27, 2019
The Lagos SSA on drainages, Mr Joe Igbokwe is leaving no stones unturn to make sure his office work and get Lagos drainages free from trash and dirt.

Lagos, home to about 20 million people have a lot to battle and tackle in terms of filth and how people through a series of items into the drainage system.

Mr Joe Igbokwe and his team were at Obalende under the bridge to clear the drainage, the McGregor Canal is home to area boys and street urchins, they have turned the under the bridge to their home and so they do all sorts of things to defecating, throwing of trash items, and many more.

Those that pass through the bridge daily will testify of how dirty the drainage is. Joe and his boys decided to clear the drainage in order to have an overflow...

See more of the photos below as obtained by AutoReportNG

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https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/09/see-what-joe-igbokwe-is-doing-at.html

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by AutoReportNG: 3:02pm On Sep 27, 2019
Lagos...

See some other photos below

https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/09/see-what-joe-igbokwe-is-doing-at.html

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by nlPoster: 3:04pm On Sep 27, 2019
This stuff needs a mechanized excavator, doing it manually is tasking.

And perhaps transparent covers ?

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Racoon(m): 3:06pm On Sep 27, 2019
This place oozes serious stench in Obalende.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Ndibunna: 3:08pm On Sep 27, 2019
grin
Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Nobody: 3:09pm On Sep 27, 2019
Lagos state dirty sha.

Na just tall buildings them get pass Benin, other than that it's just an overhyped dump yard

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by levi2(m): 3:09pm On Sep 27, 2019
Good job
Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by psucc(m): 3:09pm On Sep 27, 2019
Joe Ibokwe go fit finish all the poo in polythene bags.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by VillageHead: 3:10pm On Sep 27, 2019
Sir, we are expecting you and your team in A.J. city.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Larryfest(m): 3:10pm On Sep 27, 2019
What's up with the trending photoshoot just do the job and get over with it the play by play is getting boring..
Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by festacman(m): 3:10pm On Sep 27, 2019
From these pictures, Lagos looks shithole to me. I am sorry but that's my humble impression. Really, Joe Igbokwe has his job cut out for him. Pray he succeeds.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Righteousness89(m): 3:10pm On Sep 27, 2019
This is Serious Work!

This is 2019, Lagos has still Not Changed this gutter Mess stuffs

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Amazingman(m): 3:11pm On Sep 27, 2019
This man is ambitious but others may think he is Stoopid. No Igbo man in his position is stoopid

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Kennyfancy(m): 3:11pm On Sep 27, 2019
Good job
Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Eddyicicle(m): 3:11pm On Sep 27, 2019
This is not a nice way to clean that canal.
Don't you care about the health of those people.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by maak400: 3:12pm On Sep 27, 2019
This is too local nau
An urban city like Lagos should be using machines to evacuate the dirts in gutters and canals. This is 2019 not 1640 o

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by naptu2: 3:12pm On Sep 27, 2019
naptu2:
Dr William MacGregor was a colonial governor of Lagos. He was a medical doctor and so he was naturally interested in improving healthcare in Lagos.

One thing that particularly caught his attention was malaria. In order to combat this problem he embarked on a programme of "reclaiming" swamps and constructed a canal, The MacGregor Canal, that separated Lagos Island from Ikoyi Island.

You could get a ferry from Obalende, behind FRCN (the present Dolphin Estate), etc, to the mainland. Egun women fished in that canal.

Then the Gowon Administration embarked on a massive public works programme. They rebuilt Carter Bridge, built Eko Bridge, planned to build the 3rd Mainland Bridge and built a Ring Road to encircle the City of Lagos (at that time the City of Lagos was basically Lagos Island). The Ring Road starts at the foot of 3rd Mainland Bridge, goes past Ilubirin, past Obalende, Onikan and Marina and leads to Apongbon and the Eko Bridge.

In order to build the Ring Road, they had to fill in part of MacGregor Canal.

I wish I still had my 1974 Lagos map. The city was much different then.

I'll show you pictures.

naptu2:
Lafiagi was also mainly a swamp area, but MacGregor had it filled in.

Below are pictures of MacGregor Canal (which separated Ikoyi Island from Lagos Island).


McGregor Canal in the 1950s
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McGregor Canal in 2008
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McGregor Canal in 2010
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McGregor Canal in 2013
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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by AKswift: 3:13pm On Sep 27, 2019
We are all crazy in this city! Why did the authority allow people into that place to retrieve debris instead of using a dedicated excavator? Bunch of archaic administrators showing off in the camera!

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by olawonder(m): 3:13pm On Sep 27, 2019
A whole city has no machines to do heavy cleaning like this... na wa o! There must be someone, somewhere out of all the 20million ppl of Lagos that has the willpower and brain to run this city na... abi which kind bad luck be dis Nigeria sef angry

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by arsenal33: 3:14pm On Sep 27, 2019
Just like Abia State
Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by APOPTOSIS: 3:14pm On Sep 27, 2019
NIGERIANS are really far from GOD.
Most Times I wonder how God communicates with DIRTY PEOPLE....
.......When the same BIBLE says Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness
.....and a NIGERIAN JOURNALIST said NEW YORK is dirtier than LAGOS...
May God forgive U..

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by RedBlackPepper: 3:14pm On Sep 27, 2019
I doff my cap for this man Joe Igbokwe. Despite all the media hate and bashing. I pray you're elevated for more better roles soon.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by adeyemi91(m): 3:15pm On Sep 27, 2019
People have turned dis place to a dumping area. How many times will they clean it except they provide way of preventing people from dumping refuse there.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Nobody: 3:15pm On Sep 27, 2019
Joe Igbokwe.

You don't have to do this!

OK, if you must clean gutters, then begin from the streets of those Igbo guys you have abused while defending Buhari, so that they can really assess your 'next level'.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Almaiga: 3:16pm On Sep 27, 2019
Nice one. Joe Igbokwe will be the first Biafran President, when the North finally gives them Independence. grin He is presently being trained in leadership skills, after which he will be installed (by fire and by force) as the first Biafran President.

Sai Joe Igbokwe.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Lagosfinder(m): 3:16pm On Sep 27, 2019
Traffic and drainage has being the top concern of this administration



NEED ACCOMMODATION IN LAGOS?
WE @LAGOSFINDER CAN GET YOU A DECENT AND AFFORDABLE PLACE

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Injiggerwolf(m): 3:16pm On Sep 27, 2019
grin
Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by FuckDaMods: 3:16pm On Sep 27, 2019
I can't Imagine the amount of shît in that place, especially in those plastic plates embarassed

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by festacman(m): 3:17pm On Sep 27, 2019

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by Sultty(m): 3:18pm On Sep 27, 2019
Ewwwwwwwwwwww tongue tongue embarassed embarassed I'm sure these people will be infected after leaving the obalende canal

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by kotv: 3:18pm On Sep 27, 2019
He's an idiot. Is this the right way to clean a gutter efficiently? Most of the people working for him are going to get severely sick if this is how he plans to do his job.

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Re: Joe Igbokwe Leads His Team To Clean Mcgregor Canal, Obalende (Pictures) by kotv: 3:20pm On Sep 27, 2019
Edoloaded:
Lagos state dirty sha.

Na just tall buildings them get pass Benin, other than that it's just an overhyped dump yard


That is true. It's just an overhyped dumpster. I couldn't wait till I left. The place is disgusting.

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