sweetgala:


Area boys in Lagos roaming. When did you last visit Lagos ?

Day11:


Ambode is very clever an he lead with wisdom.

Taking area boys outta d Street not d solution, but making them useful for themselves is d point.

3rd mainland bridge is traffic free now. All thanks to Ambo.

Meanwhile - Ambo for President

StunningCEO:
This is bad news for us all....the ibos control the hawking market with gala...pure water etc..... ....now that they've banned this nuisance trading...we are going to get an increase in armed robbery from these people....the police need to be armed to deal with the fallout.....ibo and crime be like bread and butter...

franciskaine:
that you are comfortable doesn't mean others are. Government is for all and must accommodate all. Many will be displaced of their only means of livelihood, whr do dey start from? Is govt ready to arrest over 10,000 people doing street hawking? Which prison will accommodate dem? This policy will fail before 2months.

Whathaveidone:

Hehehe Gigbo sef dey talk. Wetin man no go see
Maan y'all control the Hawking industry
You dey here dey console yourself, you better go look for alternatives.
Else na your fan-yogo get all of una for jail

bigass:


Who told you i am living comfortably? What they are doing is illegal according to Lagos laws!! What were they doing before they became hawkers?
Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. same thing was said when Oshodi was cleared, when okada was banned in some areas.

bigass:


Who told you i am living comfortably? What they are doing is illegal according to Lagos laws!! What were they doing before they became hawkers?
Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. same thing was said when Oshodi was cleared, when okada was banned in some areas.

franciskaine:
I concur with your last point, differing in that alternatives were provided for those u mentioned. Okada riders were removed from risky roads, Oshodi traders were moved to a different location, or those wu can moved to beta places. In the case of hawkers I doubt any of them has the financial capacity to start anew.

bigass:


I am not against hawking. It is a symptom of poverty. However public safety is important too. They should be banned on the highways, like Third-mainland bridge, Ikorodu road Lagos Abeokuta road etc

illuminada:


Hahahahaa....hiaaan! Biko, where did you obtain this statistical information from?

Cool down bro...lol

sweetgala:


Keep telling yourself that lie

mikkypel:
But to face reality, do they hawk in America, France and the likes.. Lagos is a city for crying out loud
.. Instead of hawking around, let them just stay in one place, then the buyer meets them there

ProfyJay:


Perhaps an empowerment programme for them or something close or else crime would take its course

Firefire:


Within the next 60 days crime rate will increase in Lagos. Many who could not go into robbery will die of hunger and starvation.

54.78% of Lagosians fall within this poverty line and has been supporting themselves by trading, either in the streets of in traffic.

Congrats to the Nigeria Police force Lagos Command , time to seek transfer to Lagos as implementing this wicked order bring riches.

Afritop:
So if we buy and we lacasera and we see Kai coming and the seller running away we just throw away the lacasera inside gutter to prevent arrest

ASL33:
In all those places you mentioned do that experience the kind of traffic we have in Lagos. Put things in place and hawkers will disappear without government saying a word. If I can enter my car in VI and drive straight without any gridlock on the road what is my business shopping to buy gala or lacasara. If I can enter train, stop at the train staion and catch a bus that will drop me a working distance to my destination, what is my business with okada? What our government know is ban ban ban. A serious government don't need to ban, create a better alternative and the archaic one does off. Simple.

ProfyJay:
In enforcing this law the state government should also make provisions for an alternative for these hawkers who rely on this business solely for their daily bread!

TheAlchemist:


The Kai officer with his gloved hands would put the lacasera bottle into a ziplock bag, you will be asked to respectful accompany them to the Lagos state forensic centre, once your finger print matches does on the lacasera bottle you would be required to pay the N90,000 charges, plus additional cost for finger print verification which i assume would be about N30,000 and inconvenience charges for initially denying your guilt of about N30,000.

i bet every police officer would want to now work in Lagos.

Good move Governor Ambode.

SuperS1Panther:
That will definitely be a bad news to the Red Mudsters, the relatives of Benjamin Netanyahu residing in Africa.

No more gala in traffic.

Oksman:
Your excellency sir, i quite agrée that with your plans to ban street trading and hawking in the metroplis, but i am disappointed wth the manner the govt. is going about it, with the resultant death that also led to the destruction of properties belonging to the state govt., the apologies came a bit too late but the insincererity on the part of your administration over death of that young man was exposed by the réeling out of those figures you claimed was the
cost of the damages inflicted by the mob on the states assets. My advise to you is to build enough prison to açcomodate the defaulters thank you.

ProfyJay:
In enforcing this law the state government should also make provisions for an alternative for these hawkers who rely on this business solely for their daily bread!

Toks2008:


I just broke a tear when I read that part that a young lad was chased to his death to avade arrest not because he stole a dime but while trying to make money to survive n I'm still tryn to hold back tears.

How on earth will a Governor commit a blunder by juxtaposing damaged properties with the life of an Innocent hustler.

Ambode needs to tender an unreserved apology for uttering such insensitive statement.

collinsVP:


Too much movie. Cut it down.
What's your experience with crime investigation in America? People commit crimes and walk away undecteted on daily basis.

The law enforcement agents there are quite advanced but people still outsmart them.

Tunjihadeshelay:


Thieves enter a bank, and took away 20million naira, then the manager and 2 other staffs planned there way too by keeping 80million naira to themselves just immediately after the successful robbery, then announcing to the public that 100million was taken away. Who is the thief here?

Inspectahdeck:
They gave the government a great opportunity to finally get them off the streets.

I wonder why they damaged state properties.

Pavarottii:

90% of tax collected from people to make it a fancy state don't av their state of origin as Lagos state. So if everybody leaves, where will Lagos get tax money from to make it a fancy state.

anthonanik:
useless regime with useless decisions....
those hawkers will now be doing what...if u stop them from doing their business?


empty brains....


government should provide something for those else for them...cos hawking is their livelihood..

not making things unbearable for the poor masses.

reborn1:


This is trash, some of you kids are amazing.

Pavarottii:

Am sure u stay in Lagos state. Is ur state of origin Lagos?