How to Solve the Waste Management Issue in Lagos, Nigeria Within 3 Months.
1. Provide waste containers at designated sites, monitor them regularly, and empty them on time.
2. Be very intentional about arresting and prosecuting people who dump waste indiscriminately. Impose heavy fines, and sentence those who cannot pay the fines to 6โ8 months of community service.
3. Ensure they are arrested and prosecuted regardless of how much they plead.
Employ enough personnel to carry out these tasks, and install digital surveillance (CCTV cameras) on major streets and at designated dump sites. This will serve as critical evidence during prosecution.
@Wizarab10 There are a lot of vehicles in Lagos with no side-view mirrors.
Leakages from the vehicle when it's raining, and water dripping on passengers.
No functional brake.
To be honest, a lot of vehicles on the road should never be on the road.
There is no value for human life here.
Nigerians desperately need to stop this blunder of assuming our governors are stupid, grossly incompetent or somehow lacking in basic brainpower.
The Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, may very well be corrupt, but he is neither incompetent nor stupid for launching this grand theatrical mass wedding featuring 3,000 couples.
To grasp the sheer genius of this scheme, you have to recognise that the budget for this extravaganza dictates the state government pays the mandatory dowry of โฆ100,000 for each bride and provides an additional โฆ100,000 grant per couple to help them start a small business, a petty trade, a neighborhood kiosk, or a joint venture.
The lion's share of this multi-billion Naira budget is not even handed over as traceable direct cash to the couples.
Instead, it will be miraculously spent on purchasing physical goods such as thousands of wooden beds, oversized wardrobes, thick mattresses, sewing machines, bags of rice, cartons of spaghetti, and flashy wedding attire for the couples.
You must be smoking something highly illegal if you think the supply contracts for these items will be awarded to genuine independent businesses, rather than shady proxy companies indirectly controlled by the state government and the highly placed Hisbah officials.
The logistics racket is where the real premium tears of joy are shed by the politicians. Mattresses and bed frames are incredibly heavy to move and they require rented heavy-duty trucks, expensive loading crews, massive storage warehouses, and armed security escorts.
Also, the couples undergoing medical screening will be housed, extensively fed, tested for HIV, screened for drug abuse, checked for genotype compatibility, transported back and forth, and thoroughly monitored.
Every single one of these line items will be shamelessly inflated, padded to the heavens, and mercilessly added to the final bill that the tax-paying public is forced to cough up.
When you zoom out and do a proper forensic analysis, you quickly realise these people are not intellectually challenged. They are systematically funneling billions of Naira that should have provided the people of Kano with functional hospitals, reliable primary schools, clean drinking water, paved roads, and CCTV cameras for state policing, straight into the deep pockets of government officials to buy private jets and luxury estates in Dubai.
What's even said is that, the very citizens whose futures are being looted into oblivion, instead of demanding a serious investigation, instead of assembling a crack team of accountants to x-ray the accounts where this public money flows, instead of auditing the fake supply invoices, instead of tracking the nepotistic subcontracts, they will just run to social media, type out a few angry emojis, and start calling the government stupid, misguided, or retrogressive.
How exactly does your lazy online name-calling help stop this monumental, meticulously planned, and spectacularly executed daylight robbery?