Lagos Govt to arrest, prosecute buyers patronising roadside traders

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has warned residents who patronise traders operating successful unauthorised nationalist spaces that they volition look apprehension and prosecution from adjacent week.

The Authority said the enforcement would people radical buying goods from traders operating connected roads, medians, setbacks, walkways and different prohibited areas crossed Lagos State.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Authority’s headquarters, saying the determination was portion of a renewed enforcement run against amerciable trading, indiscriminate discarded disposal and obstruction of nationalist infrastructure.

Gbadegesin explained that the enforcement would widen beyond traders to their customers, stressing that the instrumentality besides makes it an offence to acquisition goods displayed oregon sold successful prohibited nationalist spaces.

“The instrumentality does not lone prohibit amerciable thoroughfare trading. It besides makes it an offence to bargain goods exposed oregon offered for merchantability successful prohibited places. From adjacent week, anyone recovered buying from traders operating connected roadsides, medians, walkways, setbacks oregon different unauthorised spaces volition beryllium arrested, alongside the traders, and prosecuted successful accordance with the law,” helium said.

He said the enforcement wo...