chachanga:
They were not in the interested in the welfare of the people from the very start. The were more after wresting power away from their political opponents and serving "Party Interest".

And now that we're in the thick of things, the first interests they get to jettison is that of the masses!!

asala1:
I don't get your point. Do you mean people should be allowed to sell on the road. Lagos has population of about 20million people, a large fraction of that are poor. If everyone is allowed to sell things on the road, you won't be able to get to work. Compare the chaotic Oshodi to the present relatively organized Oshodi with free flowing traffic and better security. There are a lot of people hustling in Lagos who I believe have no business living there.

SLIDEwaxie:
chai, who come do u this way? Must everything be abt party?

Chai, life no treat u fine o

Amberon:
Are you attributing the traffic jams which are obviously caused by narrow, insufficient and delapitated roads to be caused by street hawking?

Are you even okay? Nigga Nigeria is a third world country. A vast majority of its citizens are poor and the recent economic woes has just further plunged millions into abject poverty.

The reason you don't see hawking in the U.S is because it is a rich country and because an average american is rich as opposed to an average Nigerian. Hawking will naturally phase out when we play our cards right. You cannot just come up with such laws especially in this era of recession. Too many people are broke and our government does absolutely nothing for its citizens.

Do you expect those hawkers to resort to crime?

planetuzor:
Pls what's ur thought on this?

One major reason I never saw anything good about Babatunde Fashola is because throughout his 8 years in power he consistently undermined and abused the poor. He treated the poor like trash.

Are they not behaving like trash

Ambode appears determined to follow the same path. That is a sad shame because I thought he would be different.

Why fix our if it ain't broke

I simply cannot accept the way those Nigerian politicians continue to treat the poor. My mother sold goods on the streets of Lagos to send me through medical school. She peddled wares at Ojuwoye market. Wares that she had to collect on credit. I lived through abject poverty.
Eggs she is lucky does not mean every one will be

I knew many folks who were in similar circumstances, who later rose to achieve something meaningful in life.

And none of them had deemed it for help their fellow hawkers or of the mess with all the success that they claim
Fake success

I went to Unilag and met many children of the rich as well. None of them can look me in the eyes today and tell me I am not a match, in education, in social status or whatever classification. But my mother sold wares in Ojuwoye market and around the streets of Lagos.
You still think like a poor man so no you do not possess the same education status or classification

I am frustrated with the way we treat the poor in Nigeria.
What have you done to alleviate their poverty
I get really furious and extremely bitter.yet have made no move to help them out of the poverty


What do you want them to do? not throw problem


To go and die?
Natural selection
Sad but true

There's no social welfare, no housing, no free anything.
No free lunch any where my brother
The poor pay a very high price for so called few stuff in America and UK (high crime, children condemned to poverty,)

You kept pushing them further and further into poverty. Why are you people so callous?

Called survival of the fittest
What exactly is your problem?
His 135million nairaland is his problem

Is there no other way to accommodate these extremely poor people amongst you?

The poor bed to choose with sense instead of seeking their birthright for beans pot

My son recently entered a Grammar School in the UK. I went for the induction and sat there with all the proud parents of the so-called smartest kids all over the country; 80% of them are middle class white folks. Even right there the Chairman of the PTA was telling us about how they have second-hand school uniforms for those who cannot afford new school uniforms. I was wondering how anyone there could possibly be hard up. These are mostly middle-class folks. But the issue is they have a system that is always looking out for those who may be struggling. They never assume that everybody is fine. This is a school where virtually everything is free except your school uniform and the food. Yet, they still make provision for parents who may be unable to afford a mere £100 to buy all the various school equipment.

Nothing is free in life
You pay either with your taxes or your bent back of eternal servitude

We need to condemn these irresponsible politicians. it's the viewers that are irresponsible



To be poor is not a sin. Why do they think they have to punish the poor for being poor?
No one punished them they publish themselves

The new law in Lagos which criminalises being poor is a terrible indictment of a system that is terribly insensitive. Lagos does not belong to the rich only. Ah, why can't these rich people live and let others live too?

It doesn't criminalize poverty
It criminals street hawking

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chachanga:
They were not in the interested in the welfare of the people from the very start. The were more after wresting power away from their political opponents and serving "Party Interest".

And now that we're in the thick of things, the first interests they get to jettison is that of the masses!!

Amberon:
Are you attributing the traffic jams which are obviously caused by narrow, insufficient and delapitated roads to be caused by street hawking?

Hawking causes drivers to slow down causing traffic

Are you even okay? Nigga Nigeria is a third world country. A vast majority of its citizens are poor and the recent economic woes has just further plunged millions into abject poverty.

It will make them view with sense next election

The reason you don't see hawking in the U.S is because it is a rich country and because an average american is rich as opposed to an average Nigerian. the reason is because you will be started for Hawking without a permit


Hawking will naturally phase out when we play our cards right.

Come to New York you go see hawking enough
There will always be poverty
Hawking will never naturally phase any where
Only law enforcement can ensure that

You cannot just come up with such laws especially in this era of recession. Too many people are broke and our government does absolutely nothing for its citizens.


Why do anything for citizens who sell their vote for cups of rice and integrityless individuals election after election

Do you expect those hawkers to resort to crime?

adjoviomole:
The elites keep making laws that will affect the poor.

The poor keep voting for these elite and donating their money to them

They build mega plazas and chase away poor women selling tomato n pepe etc, telling them to goan rent shops.

Why don't they strive for higher class after 66 years
[/b]This so called plaza's or modern market built are so expensive, so how do u want the poor to survive?....
[b]
By thinking and asking questions till they get answers to those questions

.I just hope to be the president of this country some day, I hate seeing ppl suffer.

MIKOLOWISKA:
hope will not get you there same as hope causes poverty

Only concerted action will
Action
Not words

adjoviomole:



I will try my best to go for it den. But nigerians most of d time are the cause of their problems. And I fear for my life.

asala1:


What are you saying? If you have to break the law to survive in a place, then you don't belong there. There is no justification for that! Who is comparing U.S to Nigeria?

BTW, what has third world has to do with the economy and poverty level of Nigeria? Nigga!

Amberon:
Break what law sir? Since when did hawking become a crime in Nigeria if not yesterday?

Third world meaning that hawking is prevalent in every third world country. Hawking and poverty is synonymous. There is no hawking where is no poverty. If not for decades of corruption, Nigeria would have gone beyond this stage. What do you want those masses to resort. They lack the finances to rent shops for trading.

planetuzor:
Pls what's ur thought on this?

One major reason I never saw anything good about Babatunde Fashola is because throughout his 8 years in power he consistently undermined and abused the poor. He treated the poor like trash.

Ambode appears determined to follow the same path. That is a sad shame because I thought he would be different.Nigeria leaders and society are mainly hypocrites Angels on Sundays and Fridays Demons on other days no real concern for others except during electioneering and to gather cheap popularity on social media this country has no future

I simply cannot accept the way those Nigerian politicians continue to treat the poor. My mother sold goods on the streets of Lagos to send me through medical school. She peddled wares at Ojuwoye market. Wares that she had to collect on credit. I lived through abject poverty.

I knew many folks who were in similar circumstances, who later rose to achieve something meaningful in life.

I went to Unilag and met many children of the rich as well. None of them can look me in the eyes today and tell me I am not a match, in education, in social status or whatever classification. But my mother sold wares in Ojuwoye market and around the streets of Lagos.

I am frustrated with the way we treat the poor in Nigeria. I get really furious and extremely bitter. What do you want them to do? To go and die? There's no social welfare, no housing, no free anything. You kept pushing them further and further into poverty. Why are you people so callous? What exactly is your problem? Is there no other way to accommodate these extremely poor people amongst you?

My son recently entered a Grammar School in the UK. I went for the induction and sat there with all the proud parents of the so-called smartest kids all over the country; 80% of them are middle class white folks. Even right there the Chairman of the PTA was telling us about how they have second-hand school uniforms for those who cannot afford new school uniforms. I was wondering how anyone there could possibly be hard up. These are mostly middle-class folks. But the issue is they have a system that is always looking out for those who may be struggling. They never assume that everybody is fine. This is a school where virtually everything is free except your school uniform and the food. Yet, they still make provision for parents who may be unable to afford a mere £100 to buy all the various school equipment.

We need to condemn these irresponsible politicians. To be poor is not a sin. Why do they think they have to punish the poor for being poor?

The new law in Lagos which criminalises being poor is a terrible indictment of a system that is terribly insensitive. Lagos does not belong to the rich only. Ah, why can't these rich people live and let others live too?


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Amberon:
Break what law sir? Since when did hawking become a crime in Nigeria if not yesterday?

Third world meaning that hawking is prevalent in every third world country. Hawking and poverty is synonymous. There is no hawking where is no poverty. If not for decades of corruption, Nigeria would have gone beyond this stage. What do you want those masses to resort. They lack the finances to rent shops for trading.