[size=14pt]40 Iddo Traders, Trucks Arrested [/size]

Officials of the Lagos State Task Force on the Environment (Enforcement) Unit and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, yesterday arrested 40 traders and impounded nine trucks at Iddo, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
The impounded trucks were found blocking the BRT lane.
Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello had last week hinted of government’s plan to launch a fresh onslaught against illegal street traders and enforce the restriction order on the illegal use of BRT lanes by motorists.
Fully armed task force officials and LASTMA officials stormed the area with a Black Maria to dislodge the traders and arrest motorists using the BRT lane.
Sighting the officials, there was pandemonium as traders packed their wares to escape being arrested. Fourty of them were arrested and hauled into the Black Maria. They were taken to the task force office at Alausa, Ikeja for prosecution at the special court.
P.M.NEWS gathered that in the last two weeks, the recalcitrant traders had returned to the area on more than two occasions to continue trading after task force officials had dislodged them.
When P.M.NEWS contacted the chairman of the taskforce, Superintendent Bayo Sulaiman on the raid, he confirmed that 40 traders were arrested and nine trucks impounded in the area, adding that the taskforce would continue to monitor the area to ensure that illegal traders did not return.
According to him, the order to clear Iddo of street trading was from Governor Babatunde Fashola who was not happy with the filthy environment when he passed through the area.
Sulaiman said yesterday’s raid was the third time taskforce officials would be raiding the area. “The traders are fond of returning after the officials had gone. From now, we will continue to monitor the area to ensure that they do not come back again,” he assured.
Sulaiman said the 40 traders would be charged to court for degrading the environment. He added that the nine trucks impounded had been handed over to LASTMA officials while their owners would have to pay the necessary fines before the trucks would be released to them.
— Kazeem Ugbodaga

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/12/02/40-iddo-traders-trucks-arrested/

O God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I call on you today to save us from the hand of the tyrants and oppressors, who, having used our own resources to start, but not finish a road project, now want to punish us with the heavy burden of tolls which we must pay to them before we pass on a road built with the taxes of our parents.

Everlasting King of Glory, if indeed you are in Heaven, Lord come and give us victory over the oppressors of the people. Father, turn their devious wisdom into foolishness, their stolen wealth into desolation. Let the property they have stolen from us turn into curses in their lives and in the lives of their generations to come. As they feed fat from the riches they have stolen from us, let that which they eat poison their bodies. Let the doctors that treat them make mistakes as they do so.

Let desolation be their companion and grief their escort. Father, let them weep over their children, as they cause the poor to weep over their children because they cannot afford to educate them. Cause them to misbehave, to bring public disgrace upon them. Cause the eyes of the people to open, that they may see them for the evil serpents that they really are. Destroy their divinations from today, O Lord. Deliver your people from the hands of these locusts, O God. Afflict them, their households and their possesions, O God, with the plagues of Egypt. Cause all who conspire with them to rob the people to gather wealth for robbers, armed and unarmed. Dispossess them, O God, of every possession they have stolen from the people, "legally" and otherwise.

Father, once and for all, cause all their divinations, deciet, hypnotism, witchcraft and propaganda to fail from today, O Lord. Let them know that you, O Lord, are not mocked. Show them, Father, that you are not decieved. Reveal unto them that you cannot be bribed, like the unjust judges they use against the people, O Lord. Cause all who collaborate with them in their oppression of the people to gnash their teeth and weep perpetually, O Lord. This I ask in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen

God bless Gov. Fashola and the great state of Lagos.

A safe and oderly society is in our future, its a must and task that must be done.

djustice:

O God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I call on you today to save us from the hand of the tyrants and oppressors, who, having used our own resources to start, but not finish a road project, now want to punish us with the heavy burden of tolls which we must pay to them before we pass on a road built with the taxes of our parents.

Everlasting King of Glory, if indeed you are in Heaven, Lord come and give us victory over the oppressors of the people. Father, turn their devious wisdom into foolishness, their stolen wealth into desolation. Let the property they have stolen from us turn into curses in their lives and in the lives of their generations to come. As they feed fat from the riches they have stolen from us, let that which they eat poison their bodies. Let the doctors that treat them make mistakes as they do so.

Let desolation be their companion and grief their escort. Father, let them weep over their children, as they cause the poor to weep over their children because they cannot afford to educate them. Cause them to misbehave, to bring public disgrace upon them. Cause the eyes of the people to open, that they may see them for the evil serpents that they really are. Destroy their divinations from today, O Lord. Deliver your people from the hands of these locusts, O God. Afflict them, their households and their possesions, O God, with the plagues of Egypt. Cause all who conspire with them to rob the people to gather wealth for robbers, armed and unarmed. Dispossess them, O God, of every possession they have stolen from the people, "legally" and otherwise.

Father, once and for all, cause all their divinations, deciet, hypnotism, witchcraft and propaganda to fail from today, O Lord. Let them know that you, O Lord, are not mocked. Show them, Father, that you are not decieved. Reveal unto them that you cannot be bribed, like the unjust judges they use against the people, O Lord. Cause all who collaborate with them in their oppression of the people to gnash their teeth and weep perpetually, O Lord. This I ask in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen

@ Djustice
It is people like u that makes Christianity looks like comedy, BLOODY HYPOC>RYTE. I blame Fashola 4 been too lazy dis 2nd term, those unruly traders and truck drivers should be made to sweep, clean up and control traffic around the entire Iddo market daily for 3 months.
This is what we call economic sabotage, Fashola please wake-up.