The Lagos State Government on Saturday said that from July, 2016, it will commence a total enforcement against street trading and street hawkers, adding that the law banning their activities across the metropolis will take its full course.
The State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode told reporters in a meeting he was conducting at his office 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 sympathizing 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 (KAI) along Maryland Bus stop on Wednesday, regretted that
the situation led to the destruction of public assets. He added that 49
buses were vandalised and that it will cost about N139million to put
them back on the road.
Consequently, Governor Ambode said the
State Executive Council has resolved to enforce the Law, which according
to him makes both the hawker and the buyer liable of the offence.
“The issue is we need to enforce our laws because we already have a
law in respect of that and then there is a clause in it which says the
buyer and the seller are both liable and that we are going to fine them
either N90,000 or a six month jail term"
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