BEAUTIFY YOUR HOUSE OR GO TO JAIL- LAGOS STATE TELLS LANDLORDS

The Lagos State Government has passed a bill which requires all house owners/tenements in the state to beautify the perimeter areas of their properties with flowers or face six months imprisonment.

To ensure the execution of this bill, a new agency called Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency, LASPARK, was also inaugurated. The agency will also be in charge of managing all the 14parks and 128 landscaped beautified sites in the state.

The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello further expounded the bill:

“It is now mandatory for tenement/owners and occupiers to landscape and beautify the perimeter areas of their properties, while violation of this law shall warrant the penalty of N250,000 or such sums as the State shall incur in doing same on behalf of the tenement, or six months imprisonment or other non-custodial sentence.”

All houses in the Lagos metropolis, no matter how small or congested must plant flowers in the perimeters of their houses or face the wrath of the law, saying that the government wanted Lagos to be as beautiful as Singapore.

“The law stipulates a fine not exceeding N50,000 or one year imprisonment or other non-custodial sentences for any person or corporate body found felling or trimming trees in the state without obtaining the required permit from LASPARK.”

“It is an offence to walk on lawns and gardens instead of designated walkways; spitting, urinating or defecating in any area of the parks, gardens or opens spaces; loitering or soliciting for illegal purposes, smoking, distributing controlled substance or engaging in disorderly conduct; littering, polluting or dumping litter or refuse in any park or garden.

“Failure to control animals or allowing defecation; or engaging in unhygienic use of fountains, pools or water in the parks, gardens and open spaces, is also prohibited.”