ILLEGAL STREET TRADING: LAGOS ADVISES TRADERS
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DAMILOLA LAWRENCE
The Office of the Special Adviser on Central Business Districts has again called on street traders to vacate the roads or face sanctions, especially within the Lagos Island Business District.
In Ikeja yesterday (Thursday), Mr. Gbenga Oyerinde, Special Adviser to the Governor on CBD, issued the warning following a strategic meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Transportation to find a long-term solution to the problem of street trading in business districts.
However, Oyerinde repeatedly emphasized the need for effective and efficient collaborative efforts among government agencies to reduce street trading. She called on market leaders, community leaders, and union leaders of the transport industry to warn their members to stop allocating trading spots on roads and major streets to vendors in the Island business district.
He lamented how influential people were interfering in the government’s attempts to reduce street trading throughout the state.
Engr. Gbolahan Toriola, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, has called for a renewed effort by government operatives, particularly CBD operatives and LASTMA, to reduce street trading in the area.
Toriola stated that street trading impedes the free flow of traffic and that operatives of the two agencies must be steadfast, honest, and unwavering in enforcing Lagos State’s Street trading laws.
The two agencies’ decision to work together to drastically reduce, if not completely eliminate, street trading on major roads in the business district was the meeting’s high point.
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