{"id":20554,"date":"2018-01-15T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=20554"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:46:21","slug":"banned-cart-pushers-lagos-ssg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/banned-cart-pushers-lagos-ssg\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Banned Cart Pushers In Lagos- SSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yiv7442048821yMail_cursorElementTracker_1515945988495\" dir=\"ltr\">Tayo Olanipekun<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv7442048821yMail_cursorElementTracker_1515946136808\" dir=\"ltr\">Secretary to the Lagos State Government (SSG), Mr. Tunji Bello, has said cart pushers and wheelbarrow operators were &#8220;totally banned from Lagos streets&#8221; because their activities were &#8220;inimical to the environmental cleanliness in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv7442048821yMail_cursorElementTracker_1515946364291\" dir=\"ltr\">According to him, with the flag off of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI), the state had to enforce the ban as the activities of cart pushers would pose a threat to the success of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bello said investigations had also revealed that the said cart pushers were responsible for most of the illegal dumping of waste in canals and road medians at night which causes flooding, adding that aside constituting environmental nuisance, they were also traces of security threats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhat the state government has discovered is that these set of people use the night to perpetrate all sorts of dastardly acts. They dump refuse indiscriminately on the median of major roads and highways. They also pose serious security threats because they use those carts to hide arms and ammunitions and hide under the guise of carrying refuse to rob unsuspecting residents,\u201d the SSG said.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said the state government had finalised plans to ensure that the CLI would cover every area of the state and ensure that refuse were well packed and collected, urging residents to desist from patronising them or risk prosecution.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe state government has declared zero tolerance for the activities of cart pushers and wheel barrow operators. Security agencies in the state have been directed to ensure that those found still operating are arrested and prosecuted according to the State Environmental Laws.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yiv7442048821yMail_cursorElementTracker_1515945986693\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe law also applies to residents who patronise cart pushers. It is an offence and the state government would not hesitate to enforce the law to put a stop to such practice,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tayo Olanipekun Secretary to the Lagos State Government (SSG), Mr. Tunji Bello, has said cart pushers and wheelbarrow operators were &#8220;totally banned from Lagos streets&#8221; because their activities were &#8220;inimical to the environmental cleanliness in the state.&#8221; According to him, with the flag off of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI), the state had to enforce &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593,17],"tags":[3499],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-20554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-metro","category-news","tag-cart-pushers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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