Residents and businessmen at Ipodo and Olowu areas in Ikeja on Saturday morning woke up to see the presence of hundreds of military men cleaning up the environment and clearing their drainages.

Majority of the soldiers were dressed in branded white vests and military camouflage trousers with the inscription NADCEL/COSAT 2019 while a few others wore complete military camouflage.

They were all kitted with rain boots, hand gloves, mouth/nose guard and working with shovels, rakes, brooms with wheelbarrows carting away the refuse to standby compactors.

The soldiers who came from the 9th Brigade, Nigeria Army Cantonment, Ikeja were led by the Commander of the Brigade, Brigadier-General Nasir Jega who represented the General Officer Commanding 81Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Sanni Yusuf.

Speaking with the press, Jega said the sanitation exercise is part of the activities to mark the 2019 Nigerian Army Day Celebration which is an annual event, the exercise he said was also going on in two other locations in Lagos namely, Ikoyi and Ojo.

“It is part of the task from the Army Chief of Staff that on this day we should go round and carry out this exercise so as to promote civil-military relations with civilians and communities around us.

On why Ipodo/ Olowu was picked for the exercise, the commander said it is because the area is close to the Cantonment, “Ipodo is a little bit closer to the cantonment and we chose it in order to relate with the community that is closer to us so that we have very good civil/military relations with them”, he said.

Jega imployed everybody to continue with the sanitation exercise so as to keep the surroundings clean, “they should be coming out to have their surroundings clean, having a good and clean environment will foster good health for everybody”, he said.

A businessman who owns a shop in the area, Mr. Ogbonna Onwuzuruike from Imo who said he feels good and happy about the cleaning stated that as he came to open his shop he met the military doing environment sanitation.

“I am happy to see them come out enmasse to do the cleanup exercise, I feel so good and happy about it, it is not their duty, this is to show us good example that we businessmen should clean our environment and make Lagos clean.

“It is good for us to continue with the trend, it is good for we businessmen to keep our environment clean,” he said.

Onwuzuruike also said he would want the state government to reintroduce the monthly environmental sanitation exercise so as to keep Lagos clean.


See more photos here; http://gistmore.com/soldiers-clean-up-ikeja-as-it-celebrates-army-day

nice

They'll clean it today and start harassing innocent citizens tomorrow.

Let's be frank to ourselves, Lagos is truly over rated!!! If Ikeja could be this dirty, imagine how places like Ajegunle, Ikotun, Iba would look like.

Echo oooo

Nice 1

Lagos is overrated
Tueh Zoo

Nice

Nice one

Dats good

Who want go dump waste for that place now? make Him help carry my own ma

Davash222:
Let's be frank to ourselves, Lagos is truly over rated!!! If Ikeja could be this dirty, imagine how places like Ajegunle, Ikotun, Iba would look like.

No be yah bothers from the mudslides dey cause dirty for Lagos?

Lalasticlala, mynd44

Nice, and if anybody litters the place again, I support make dem beat am till he or she collapses

basty:


No be yah bothers from the mudslides dey cause dirty for Lagos?

They contracted the habit from you guys as you guys are naturally dirty

Lalasticlala

All na eye service...
2weeks now that place would be like its old self...The goverment should wake up and save this country...
They always travel out but to copy what is in those nations and replicate it here Na wahala.

who will follow me to go there and shout for them to clean that place very well

basty:


No be yah bothers from the mudslides dey cause dirty for Lagos?

To deep you inside this crowd just dey Hungary me.

x

Says a man that hail from Iwo village in Ibadan, probably squatting in an ancient boy's quarter in agege oja.

Iranu

Pride of the Nation. Can police emulate them?

Police officers should learn from them.

The dirty residents should be ashamed of themselves.

see gutter...afonjas r too dirty

can't they clean up sambisa and celebrate the army Day there??

basty:

No be yah bothers from the mudslides dey cause dirty for Lagos?

See dirty man... Dey call another person dirty..

Let them make themselves useful even if for once

But just look at where human beings live in this 21st century

You accused someone of rape and then said "I Dare You To Go To Court"



Hantie isnt it You who was raped that should first file a case at the court?


Abi your aim na just to slander his image as pay back?


I'm SHOCKTALISED