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On America's ban on sagging pants (II) Lessons from America: let us copy this too  (Published on Leadership Newspaper, Tuesday, June 25, 2013) I am a true and proud Nigerian, an African. And like I always say, we can only be Nigeria, Africa, and that’s the best we can be. I have been genuinely concerned and most times perturbed by the crudeness of majority of Nigerian youths as regards what they wear in this part of the world and how they wear them. Originally, it was not in God’s plan that man should have something to cover his nakedness, perhaps because there was never going to be that consciousness of nudity, unless man had gone amiss. And that was it – Adam disobeyed God - and then he became conscious of his nakedness…and covered himself with leaves. And we are all descendants of the fallen man. On April 16, 2013, I wrote an article on thescoopng.com titled ‘On America’s ban on sagging pants’ . It was about the disgraceful and distasteful trend of “sagging,”

On Amreica's ban on sagging pants

On April 16 th , 2013, the Daily Trust p ublished a story - ‘Town in the US bans sagging pants’ culled from the nydailynews.com . According to the story, a certain Lousiana town ‘wants to prohibit people from sagging, or wearing pants below the waist and exposing their underwear.’ The ban was to set fine as high as $50 for first offence, $100 for a second offence and $100 plus 16 hours of public service for each sequence of offence on violators.  Historically, two reasons account for the emergence of sagging practice originally from America. One, in American prisons, sagging was practiced by the inmates because prisoners were not allowed to wear belt and other strings because it was one of the most popular weapons that inmates used to commit suicide or even murder their colleagues either by hanging or strangling.   As a result inmates whose trousers were oversized had them hanging loose below their waist. It wasn’t a fashion. Secondly, there is a strong association of sag