Ayee Idris: While I sympathise with the ram sellers, I don't understand why they still want to make use of the same location. I thought what they should be asking for is that their rams be released and that they would move to the designated area. Instead, they are asking to use the banned area this year. I don't get that. Sallah is still a week away.

Yeah I thought so too, but realise it'll take them eternity to get customers at a new location (which most likely is occupied by now). And this would result to huge losses for them.
I think the best thing is for them to pay a li'l fine, sell-off their goods, clean the place after their sale and relocate to the new location for their next sales. But I hope the LASG, would be benevolent enough to allow them this one.
Thinking about it is just too saddening

sanniemoe: I drove past d place yesterday when d thing dey happen. If u see as dem imprison ram...kai,I love my country.....those rams were going to jail

Jail ke? Those rams are going to cell made of stomach walls.

eddiebruk:


If you think this guy is a bigot like this post.

sorry

“An official from Agriculture Ministry gave
us permission to use this place, but I was
surprised when I heard that he had been
arrested,” he said.

Bunch of illiterates; so after settling him, you didn't deem it fit to put it in black and white as form of defence for situation like this.

*some text missing

eddiebruk:


“An official from Agriculture Ministry gave us permission to use this place, but I was surprised when I heard that he had been arrested,” he said. “These ram sellers came from Sokoto State and they are not aware of the relocation order.


Did you read that part of the Report....?

Whenever you hear or read that an official of any of our Govt MDA's was "approached", be sure some "things" went down.

Not surprised the said official was arrested

I believe in due process....its this short cut things and runs that's killing Nigeria. am sure the Min of Agric guy had been bribed with rams to facilitate the trade in an unapproved area.
every where is not a market place my people....

sure way: Lagos is fast turning a mega city...you don hear say them dey drag ram along the street in developd countries..let everytin be done in order.pls lasg av given u a space go there.#simple.
eko o ni ba je o..

if tomorrow the state looks dirty, they will say D govt is nt working.

Messi j: if tomorrow the state looks dirty, they will say D govt is nt working.

You dey mind them?
Everything must be done in their favour...

Gabbysky:

Yeah I thought so too, but realise it'll take them eternity to get customers at a new location (which most likely is occupied by now). And this would result to huge losses for them.
I think the best thing is for them to pay a li'l fine, sell-off their goods, clean the place after their sale and relocate to the new location for their next sales. But I hope the LASG, would be benevolent enough to allow them this one.
Thinking about it is just too saddening

U r right. I agree with u

First the rams will be sent for rehabilitation then back to their states of origin for reunion with family. I hope they are not from Anambra State sha

hammedkola: They 'll be released later

AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN EATEN OR SOLD EH?

Let them go and bail their ram

The rams have been released. Just passed there now.. there is a neighbourhood watch patrol van there,guarding them I guess. There r other vehicles on the main road too,maybe they buyers too

sanniemoe: The rams have been released. Just passed there now.. there is a neighbourhood watch patrol van there,guarding them I guess. There r other vehicles on the main road too,maybe they buyers too

I hope so.

maclatunji: With just seven days to the Eid-el-Kabir festival, some ram sellers have lost their rams to the Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit which raided their stalls and confiscated dozens of rams.

Olaide Agboola, the Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) who led the team, said the ram owners were trading in prohibited areas in state.

Agboola said that the State Ministry of Agriculture had designated some locations for sale of rams in the state but the owners, instead of making use of those places, had converged at Ijora Olopa.

The CSP said the traders refused to relocate from the place despite officials from the unit giving them a 24-hour deadline to vacate the place.

“We have told them that Lagos State Government will not tolerate littering the state with waste; they should go and sell their rams in designated areas. I will make sure that not a single ram remains in this place today. This will serve as a lesson to other traders,“ he said.

The ram sellers, however, denied they were notified that their sales point was prohibited. They also claimed that the Enforcement Unit did not give them any notice.

They appealed to Governor Babatunde Fashola to release the rams.

Speaking on Monday, Muhammed Mudi, leader of the ram sellers, said that they were not expecting the officials since they had had approached an official of the Ministry of Agriculture who gave them permission to sell rams at the location.

“An official from Agriculture Ministry gave us permission to use this place, but I was surprised when I heard that he had been arrested,” he said. “These ram sellers came from Sokoto State and they are not aware of the relocation order.

“That is why we are appealing to the governor to allow us to make our sales here this year; we promise not to bring our rams here next year.”

Mudi said that the task force came to the market and carted away their rams in trucks..


http://telegraphng.com/2013/10/lagos-government-detains-sallah-rams/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

ram confiscated to be shared by ACP cohorts

why is my post deleted. Is NL too poor for intellectual debates?

free R1: why is my post deleted. Is NL too poor for intellectual debates?

You guys were starting to derail the thread with the "who owns Lagos debate?". You can debate that all you want on a thread created for that purpose in the right section.

OMG... Na naija we D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ sha. Ho̶̲̥̅̶̷̩̥̊͡ will D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ confisticate their ram. If @ all they want to bring them to book of law, it is d seller that should be arrested. Probably dem ŊO̶̷̩̥̊͡ get money to buy ram for ileya, but remember ileya can't be celebrated with unlawful and unjust items. Ma sha ALLAH

Notin Good and brilliant comes easy. If We Nigerians look on dis situation with prejudice, Nigeria will neva grow.. Cage ur domestic animals, dont dispose material wer it shud not b disposed. Y are all dis so difficult to aclimatize to. Sooner we go say we won go london, go America if na like so den dey treat der own surroundings, were dey b able to boast of it... Think wise and big guys!!!

maclatunji:

You guys were starting to derail the thread with the "who owns Lagos debate?". You can debate that all you want on a thread created for that purpose in the right section.

I gave a candid response to an ignorant question so you decided to delete the response and not the question. Why is the other post which started the debate still up? Hypocrisy? Lagosians own Lagos, its heritage and ancestors! Period!