Lagos govt warns celebrities, influencers against patronising ‘agberos’

Lagos State Government has appealed to celebrities, societal media influencers and different members of the nationalist to halt actions that could promote the activities of thoroughfare urchins, popularly referred to arsenic agberos, crossed the state.

The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made the entreaty successful a station connected X on Sunday after being tagged successful a video documentary depicting the activities of thoroughfare urchins successful Lagos.

Reacting to the footage, Wahab said the authorities authorities had repeatedly carried retired operations to apprehend and region thoroughfare urchins from assorted locations.

He, however, noted that the fiscal assistance and patronage received from immoderate members of the nationalist continued to undermine efforts to support the streets escaped of specified activities.

“The authorities authorities has consistently apprehended and dislodged these thoroughfare urchins from assorted locations crossed the state.

“However, the continued fiscal enactment and patronage they person from immoderate influencers, celebrities, and members of the public, arsenic seen successful this video, inadvertently promote them to instrumentality to the streets and, successful immoderate cases, presumption it arsenic a lucrative mea...