Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state has said that from July
1, 2016, it would commence a total enforcement against street trading and
street hawkers, as the law would take its full course.
Ambode made this remark during a live
interview session on Television Continental, where he sympathised 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.
“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.
“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.
“What we are doing on traffic is that we
are introducing new strategies to eliminate traffic, but Lagos being a
cosmopolitan city, you cannot totally eliminate it but now this is the case, in
the next few days, you will see on the street of Lagos signs that will be
warning you that buyers and hawkers should be aware that there are
consequences,” Governor Ambode said.
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