Lagos State Government Bans Street Trading, Hawking

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Lagos State government, on Tuesday, banned street trading and hawking across the metropolis, describing the order as one of the measures taken to curb crime.

The chairman, State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Unit, a Superintendent of Police, Mr Bayo Sulaimon, said this at a news conference in his office in Alausa, Ikeja.

He said, "the government is now out to enforce all environmental laws to the letter. Lagos is not a jungle where anybody does what he likes. As a result of this, we are banning street trading and hawking in the metropolis."

According to Sulaimon, many of the street traders are into crime but pretend to be selling products to the public, adding that, "they carry short guns to rob innocent people of their belongings while hawking on the roads."