The
Lagos State Government on Friday said that from July 1, 2016, it would
commence a total enforcement against street trading and street hawkers,
saying that the law banning their activities across the metropolis would
take its full course.
Speaking at a live interview session on
Television Continental, the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode said
that the renewed enforcement is in line with Section One of the Lagos
State Street Trading and Illegal Market Prohibition Law 2003 which
restricts street trading and hawking in the metropolis.
The Governor, while sympathising with
the family of a street hawker who was knocked down by an articulated
truck while trying to evade arrest from officials of Kick Against
Indiscipline along Maryland Bus stop on Wednesday, regretted that the
situation led to the destruction of public assets.
“It is not in our DNA to allow someone
to just die by road accident or the way it happened in respect of the
incident. But beyond the fact that we lost one person while crossing the
road as a result of evading arrest by KAI officials, I need to tell
Lagosians that over 49 buses were actually destroyed and it is costing
us like almost N139m to put those buses back on the road,” he said.
Credit: Punch
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