Nigeria sweeps up
NZPA-Reuter Lagos Thousands of Nigerians swept streets, moved mountains of rubbish’and cleared blocked drains yesterday to compete for cash prizes offered by the military authorities on a “National Sanitation Day.” The cleanest city will get 1 million naira ($2.09 million), the runner-up 600,000 naira ($1.2 million) and the third 400,000 naira ($855,000). It is not clear
how the money will be used. Men in Lagos reported to work with brooms, rakes and shovels while women and children cleaned homes.
At a road block in Lagos, police piled rubbish into boots of private cars and ordered motorists to take it to rubbish dumps. Hundreds of scrap vehicles were removed to tips on the outskirts of the city and their owners told to pay the transport costs.
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Press, 5 August 1985, Page 6
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