The Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, yesterday issued a 72-hour notice to food vendors operating on an access road opposite the Airport Hotel, Awolowo Road, Ikeja, to relocate from there or face the wrath of the law.
Egbeyemi noted that the activities of the traders were preventing residents of the area from gaining easy access to or from their respective homes, particularly at night, adding that such an act contravened the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Law.
The task force chief gave the directive at the end of an operation which the agency carried out at the weekend to rid Ikeja of hawkers, whom he accused of operating “recklessly” without regard for other road users. Read more