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This is not just about churches

There were parking meters on some streets on Lagos Island when I was a kid (for example, there were parking meters on Broad Street). You paid (with coins) into the machine and you were allowed to park for a period of time. There were also signs that read, "No parking from Monday to Friday". In other words, you could only park on the side of those streets at the weekend and you had to pay to park.

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Last year or two years ago the Lagos State Government announced that they were going to regulate parking in Lagos. They would designate public places where people could park and you'll have to pay a fee in order to park there. Companies that have outside parking lots will also have to pay the government so that their staff and customers can park there.

I have seen a team arrive to clamp the tyres of cars that were parked in an outside parking lot of a certain hospital in Lekki.

They are going to clamp the tyres of cars that are parked in unapproved places and owners of cars that are parked in approved places will pay a fee.

NOTE: THIS DOES NOT ONLY APPLY TO CHURCHES

2022 thread

Lagosians To Pay Taxes For Parking Outside Their House
https://www.nairaland.com/7302500/lagosians-pay-taxes-parking-outside

Lagos Begins Collection Of Levy For Parking Outside Perimeter Fence
https://www.nairaland.com/7300603/lagos-begins-collection-levy-parking

Picture of an old parking meter.

CyrusVI:
This is really on the front page


Do u even know what front page means??

Abeg rest

It was on the front/home page. The mods just removed it from there after people complained.

2022??

This is the part of Bayo Onanuga's statement in which he mentioned Pat Utomi.

I have been on the trail of one of the protest planners, who is nameless but claims to have an internet radio station, PTM100.88 Abuja. The anonymous person joined X in August 2022 and has 520 followers today, among whom are FS Yusuf, another rabid Obi supporter, and Professor Pat Utomi, a Labour Party chief and a guy on X who goes by the pseudonym Peter Obi's First Son. PTM’s profile image has someone holding the inscription` Certificate Forger Not My President, ' with a photo of Peter Obi as an inset. Only Obi’s supporters will be talking about certificate forgery long after the Supreme Court dismissed the allegation.

https://www.nairaland.com/8159655/nationwide-protest-peter-obi-obidients

Pat Utomi @UtomiPat

Esteem just collapsed before me. I used to think Bayo Onanuga was a journalist of some standing until I began to receive calls this morning about his accusing me of planning demonstrations for August. First I have been resident in Washington DC and occupied by an intense Fellowship for months with additional work on a book project such that I did not even know demonstrations were being planned until I called a senior civil servant in Abuja who I sent a questionnaire on public policy reforms. I mentioned I would be in Ghana for events around the AU summit and he said if you will come into Nigeria careful that demonstrations in August do not make you run into flight disruptions. That is how I heard of protests being planned. This morning when I heard about Onanuga’s comment my inclination was to ignore it. But another caller suggested it could deliberate falsehood to rationalize a sinister plan. I would like Mr Onanuga to present any evidence to justify his comment

Let it be clear that I have nothing against protests. It is a legitimate instrument of democracy for raising the voice of citizens. I have participated in many in my time. From my undergraduate days at UNN to marching with concerned professionals following the June 12 elections annulment. Even though I did not know the organizers of the EndSARS protests I supported it. So if I were part of whatever is being planned for August I would wear it as a badge of honor and not wait to be called out by Bayo Onanuga

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