“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

KAI IMPOUNDED ALCOHOLIC DRINKS DURING A RAID ON OLUPESE TERMINAL PARK AND OSHODI-BOLADE GARAGES ON TUESDAY. (VIDEO/PHOTO).


 "As part of concerted efforts undertaken by the State Government to mitigate the trend of alcohol consumption by commercial drivers across different parks and garages in the State as discovered to be a primary trigger for motor accidents, the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (@lagescofficial ) popularly known as KAI impounded alcoholic drinks during a raid on Olupese Terminal Park and Oshodi-Bolade Garages on Tuesday. 


The Corps Marshal of the Agency, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd) equally read the riot act to street traders and hawkers to desist from their banned activities as enshrined in the Environmental Laws of the State just as he maintained that the resolve of the Agency in the war against street trading, displaying wares for sale in traffic, on walkways, setbacks, lay-bys, gutter slabs, road verges, medians and kerbs will be sustained and defaulters will be met with stiff opposition.


#ZeroToleranceLagos #CleanerLagos

@lagosstategovt"- Tokubo Wahab. 

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