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Brazil ex-official returns toilet she had removed from office

Ruth Comerford

A former city councillor in Brazil has returned a toilet and two sinks she had removed from her office after losing a bid for re-election.

Footage of one of Janaína Lima's employees hauling away the facilities was posted online as her tenure as Sao Paulo councilwoman ended.

"I decided to donate the equipment I acquired with my own resources to the chamber," she said in statement on X, following a social media backlash.

"Obviously, neither I nor my advisers need a toilet."

CCTV cameras caught employees in her office removing the facilities that were installed when she took office eight years ago.

In a statement posted on social media, Lima said the bathroom renovation was paid for with her own money and therefore not an asset belonging to the council.

Lima said she had followed the guidance of the legal department, that had indicated that all personally installed resources should be removed.

She told Brazilian media outlet G1 the hydraulics in the building are "sensitive".

She added that other fixtures she had bought for the office - such as a glass partition and industrial-style light fittings - would remain in place for her successor.

Lima served as a councillor for the New Party until 1 January.

The 41-year-old lost her position to Adrilles Jorge, of the Brazilian Labour Party, in the 2024 elections.

At his inauguration on Monday, Jorge quipped to G1 that his team would "use a communal potty" until the situation is resolved.

"I visited the office and thought the architecture was brilliant. But she took everything out," he said.

"They even took out the toilet and the sink. She didn't say [that she was going to take them out]. And it's something that neither she would say, nor would I ask."

The new president of the House, Ricardo Teixeira said "appropriate measures" would be taken.

FreeStuffsNG:
"Obviously, neither I nor my advisers need a toilet."

Awon team 'saner climes ' with low self esteem and inferiority complex should see this

tollyboy5:
Team saner clime.

E don happen lol

FreeStuffsNG:
"Obviously, neither I nor my advisers need a toilet."

Awon team 'saner climes ' with low self esteem and inferiority complex should see this

MasterJayJay:
They have a toilet. Unlike Nigeria where they celebrated installation of toilet in their village.

tollyboy5:
Nigeria is a special place. I speak for my hometown alone.
Do you hometown have toilets?

MasterJayJay:
Hush!!! All these bots that are anti saner climes.

tollyboy5:
You did not answer my question. My state is sane place.
My hometown Epe is a wonderful place.
Why are you scared to mention your village? Do you lack toilet there?

MasterJayJay:
I didn't ask you about your village. Your low IQ turned the topic to saner climes vs not saner climes.

Your village is in Nigeria.
The village I used as illustration is in Nigeria.
If you believe that my village got no toilet, it still doesn't change that my village is in Nigeria too.

So it's basically Nigeria vs Brazil.

So why should you be mocking saner climes when a village in your country celebrated installation of toilet after 183 years?

tollyboy5:
No one is mocking a saner clime.
It's just you inferiority complex individuals that thinks everywhere abroad is a London city.
You never get responsible for your actions, what you like doing is blame and comparison.
That is why they're tagged with "set awon saner clime".
When people visit a country they visit mostly the best cities and get a view of the country from those cities.
So if we in my village can compose ourselves to give Nigeria a good name let other state do the same.
No climate is saner

MasterJayJay:
No climate is saner? If there's emergency in your hometown now, can you call any emergency lines? If you can call any emergency line in your hometown and someone in USA is dialing 911 at same time, between both of you who would get a faster response?

FreeStuffsNG:
Awon team 'saner climes ' with low self esteem and inferiority complex should see this

FreeStuffsNG:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rne2d540lo

FreeStuffsNG:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rne2d540lo

SeverusSnape:
Shut up jare... Nigeria is still a shithole compared to Brazil. You know it, Brazil is a billion times better than Nigeria.
This same Nigeria that kleptomaniacs and Drug dealers become leaders.

SeverusSnape:
Shut up jare... Nigeria is still a shithole compared to Brazil. You know it, Brazil is a billion times better than Nigeria.
This same Nigeria that kleptomaniacs and Drug dealers become leaders.

tollyboy5:
Frankly speaking. Oyo State governor need to do alot about that state. Some year ago I was passing the bridge at Iwo road sh!t was smelling everywhere.
I hope things are better there now