Buying from street hawkers prohibited in Kaduna state

– A new injunction has been enacted in Kaduna state

– The law prohibits residents from patronizing street hawkers

– Those who flout the law are liable to be sentenced to jail

It has become a crime to patronize a street hawker in Kaduna state, says the government, after the enactment of a law which makes it a criminal offence for both the hawker and buyers in the state.


Vanguard reports that the disclosure was made by spokesman of Kaduna state House of Assembly, Nuhu Goro Shadalafiya.

Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday, May 24, Shadalafiya said, Governor Nasir El-Rufai should be credited for the new act passed last month.

The member who also spoke against the allegation that the 34-member KDHA have been compromised with new exotic cars, said that the cars were for the official works of the 34 Chairmen of the 34 committees of the House as every member of the House chairs a committee.

On the anti-hawking law, he said: “We have also pass a bill into law to checkmate hawkers who deprive people from owning shops.”

Governor El-Rufai has been in the eye of the storm recently, following the push for the passage of certain bills into law in Kaduna state. A move to enact a controversial religious bill, set the governor against some clerics who did not spare anything as they attacked him verbally in the media.https://www.naij.com/

this I support

wait oh...34 legislators,34 chairmen,34 c'ttee? So nobody has membership to any c'ttee? So when a bill is referred to a cttee, only one legislator, i.e the chairman reviews it as if one good head is better than good heads? I am pretty sure that it is the c'ttee on street hawking plus another c'ttee on street patronage that accounted for this law.

This is anti people policy.Nigeria is not ripe for this kind of policy especially from the northern region.Rotimi Amaechi tried it in Rivers State but it's never lasted for long.Apc administration is bend on making her citizens suffer.