₦airaland Forum

AmazingELixir:


But the menace of open defecation is perpetuated mostly by miscreants , homeless people and touts with no access to smart phones or worse still don't know how to use one...how will this initiative benefit them.

placeofallure:
Good question! Your concern is valid.

As I travel to work every day through the Third Mainland Bridge, I see them and their bum bum out, no shame!

AmazingELixir:
You can not draw a straight analogy between an institution of higher learning as UI and Lagos state in general...the demographic paints a complete contrasting picture.

Open defecation does not happen in UI, The App is workable there because it allows educated people with smart phones to locate conveniences and clean ones in real time, conversely the case of Lagos state is different the targeted people are mostly homeless illiterates, touts and miscreants with no means of accessing the App.

Luckysbab:
And in your daily travels, you've never had a need for public toilets?

Peng12345:
Too many homeless people in lagos, every facility in lagos is overuse same as the kpekus

Ofunaofu:
People like you never allow a thoughtful thread like this to flow, you derail it with bitterness and ethnic bigotry

anonimi:
What is the point of a failure comparing himself to another failure? To achieve what?

What is the business of Lagosians with Anambra state when they are not paying taxes to Anambra governor?

Should sensible Lagosians not ask what Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu have done with their trillions budget every year, such that they failed to build enough public toilets to prevent open defecation? Do you know how many public toilets have been built since 1999 in Lagos?

What am I even saying, if the four governors failed to make ordinary water available to all households, they surely didn’t make public toilets available for everyone.

AmazingELixir:


But the menace of open defecation is perpetuated mostly by miscreants , homeless people and touts with no access to smart phones or worse still don't know how to use one...how will this initiative benefit them.

naptu2:
You are not important, that's why

lilvicky68:
Lol
lets see how the application will solve this problem

Peng12345:
Too many homeless people in lagos, every facility in lagos is overuse same as the kpekus

placeofallure:
Good question! Your concern is valid.

As I travel to work every day through the Third Mainland Bridge, I see them and their bum bum out, no shame!

Offpoint1:
Lagos is filled up with mxd people, nothing that's for the public that will last. Either it's damage, vandalized or stolen

chipet67:
Not true. Laws implemented makes a society what it is. There are more badly behaved people in the US, functional institutions put them in check. If you leave men in the US, them go still shyt for streets.
If other backup infrastructure are in place, and this one is followed up, with strict implementation of penalties on defaulters, the city will be clean.

naptu2:
There's another common trick on Nairaland. I call it the "One size fits all" approach.

There are usually many reasons for a problem, so government needs to use a combination of solutions to solve the problem.

But trolls will act as if one solution must solve all problems. It doesn't work that way.

There are very many reasons why people urinate and defecate in public. These include:

⚫️Homelessness

⚫️ Lack of public toilets

⚫️ Lack of information

⚫️ Lack of planning or impatience by the violator.

Therefore, many solutions need to be used, including:

⚫️ Arresting violators

⚫️ Providing public toilets

⚫️ Providing information about the location and availability of such toilets.

This is easy for even a child to understand.

AntiChristian:
Let Peter Obi and his online police commend all these from Lagos state.

Lagos no be any state's mate!

I know Peter Obi will also do all these and more in his dream for Nigeria when he becomes president in year 3031.

PrincessDiana:
They all do.

Peng12345:
Too many homeless people in lagos, every facility in lagos is overuse same as the kpekus

naptu2:
That already exists. It's called My Lagos App. It enables Lagosians locate police stations, report problems directly to the Lagos State Government (bad roads, waste issues, etc).

I met with Adetokunbo Ogunnoiki @tokunboxyz , a young graduate of mathematics from the University of Ibadan, and his startup partner Ademola Gbadero, after his viral post on X caught my attention. They proposed a tech platform that uses geo mapping to help Lagosians locate clean… pic.twitter.com/TV4V1f67rW

— Tokunbo Wahab (@tokunbo_wahab) April 21, 2026

Offpoint1:
Which law enforcer will guard public toilet 24/7?

Most law enforcement in Nigeria are either corrupt or nonchalant.

Lagos is an extremely complex city.

When Mile2-Apapa express was rebuilt and commissioned, just 2 weeks after commission the whole gutter was filled up with dirty and excreta... Law enforcement were still active, after a month they got tired and left.

AntiChristian:
Let Peter Obi and his online police commend all these from Lagos state.

Lagos no be any state's mate!

I know Peter Obi will also do all these and more in his dream for Nigeria when he becomes president in year 3031.

placeofallure:
Me? Public toilets? Ọlọrun majẹ! That's a No No for me.

It's like you don't know the way some people are wired? I don't use public toilets anywhere; church, school, wherever! I use my office toilet because I am a senior personnel and it's just me!