Friday, 21 March 2014
A displeased
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has ordered officers of the Kick
Against Indiscipline, KAI, to henceforth arrest people urinating and defecating
in public places across the state.
Fashola, who
was on his way to the free health mission at Oke-Ira, Ogba area of Lagos,
southwest Nigeria, Thursday, said he saw five people urinating in public places
and was disgusted by such a despicable act.
“This is a
violation of our sanitation law and I will ask KAI to move out en-masse and
prosecute those who violate our laws,” he lamented.
The governor
urged residents to shun the practice and adopt healthy lifestyle, saying that
environmental pollution contributes to the cases of ill-health that affects
community dwellers.
“The biggest
doctor you can have is prevention. If we all can imbibe better habits, it will
reduce the incidence of ill-health. Citizens must be ready to take
responsibility for their own healthcare to live a healthy life, if we chose to
be cleaner than we are now, we would have a healthy environment than we have
right now,” he said.
Fashola
charged traditional rulers, Community Development Associations and community
leaders to move to stop the habit which he described as unhealthy and not
speaking well of the residents of Lagos as a people, saying officers of the
Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) would enforce the law in this respect.
He tasked the
people of Oke Ira to lead from the front by being the first community to stop
urinating in public, adding that when people engage in such dirty habits, the
environment becomes unclean and it is easy to contract diseases.
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