Huge Compliance In Lagos As Buyers Keep Off Street Hawkers To Avoid Gov Akinwunmi Ambode’s N90k Or 6months Jail Term Sanction

…as talks hawkers have become baits make the round

Digs by societynowng.com confirmed that there is an ongoing huge compliance in the law forbidding street trading in Lagos.

This is directly comes in the face of directive by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of total enforcement of the law that stipulates a N90,OOO fine or 6months jail term for both sellers and buyers.

prior to this the agency in charge only target sellers as offenders.

The Lagos helms man adopted the tough stance of going after buyers in the aftermath
of destruction of public buses by angry street traders over alleged killing of one of theirs by a BRT bus in attempt to apprehend him by state agency, Kick Against Indiscipline.

The governor disclosing over 49 buses were vandalised and that it would take almost N139m to put them back on the road confirmed a total enforcement of the law that ropes in buyers into the offence is needed to combat the menace of street trading.

The governor made disclosure on Friday July 2 2016.

Today Monday June 2016 is effectively the first day the compliance of the law would be observed.

And rounds made by societynowng.com and checks made on various parts of the state revealed though some sellers braved the situation to hawk their wares in places such as Obalande and related areas, the buyers totally kept off.

‘’especially those in traffic…nobody bought’’ a source pointed out.

Societynowng.com sources on the stretch that is Ikorodu road, Oworonsoki axis, Falomo, Awolowo road and street, Ikeja, Shomolu and parts of Lekki and different areas in Victoria Island confirmed the it wasn’t business as usual for the hawkers.

‘’those that came out were left hanging with their wares…people understand that with this new enforcement order, the hawkers aren’t really the target now..it the buyers, especially private car owners because the sellers have now become the bait’’ a source pointed

According to consensus of opinions available to societynowng.com, the situation is government a master stroke that would force the hawkers off the streets as buyers with more to lose take extra care to avoid falling on the wrong side of the law that is that has strangled the means of livelihood of the army of street traders catching in on the traffic situation both on the major road and sidewalks.