Lagos Govt issues 72-hour quit notice to street traders

The Lagos State Taskforce has fixed a 72-hour ultimatum to thoroughfare traders and amerciable occupants operating on the Alaba Rago corridor of the Mile 2–Badagry Expressway, up of a planned enforcement workout aimed astatine restoring biology bid successful the area.

This ultimatum was fixed by the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, Adetayo Akerele, on Wednesday in Lagos.

Akerele disclosed that the cognition forms portion of ongoing efforts to enforce the Lagos State Environmental Management and Protection Law and different regulations designed to support biology sanity crossed the metropolis.

He further stated that persistent amerciable trading and biology violations on the corridor person generated complaints from motorists, pedestrians, residents, visitors entering the state done the Seme border, and biology stakeholders.

According to him, the planned cognition would tackle the proliferation of makeshift shops, amerciable structures, mini brothels, utilized integrative depots, indiscriminate discarded disposal, unregulated trading activities and different biology infractions affecting the area.

“Lagos State cannot unreal oregon look the different mode implicit the level of amerciable activities and biology hazards here. This concern does not bespeak the status...