Abiodun orders cow sellers, others to vacate Lagos-Ibadan expressway in 21 days

All unauthorized cow vendors and street vendors on the road setbacks along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have been ordered by Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State to leave the region within the next twenty-one days.

The expressway’s Kara, Isheri Warewa axis is where the illegal traders are located.

Abiodun stated that all of the traders’ shanties will be destroyed in order to properly clean up the axis if they did not leave after the 21-day deadline.

According to the governor, the shanties that the vendors had built pose a risk to public safety and the environment.

In addition, he claimed that street kids and drug dealers “rob innocent citizens of their valuables in broad daylight” by using the shanties as their illegal hiding places.

According to Abiodun, the cleanup is being done in advance of the setbacks being beautifully redesigned to go along with the Federal Government’s renovation of the expressway.

The command was given by Abiodun during a meeting with community leaders at the palace of the Olofin of Isheri, Oba Sulaiman Adekunle Bamgbade, in Isheri. The message was delivered on his behalf by Ola Oresanya, the Commissioner for Environment.

In a statement released on Sunday, the governor said that after multiple warnings, abatement notices, and other entreaties to relocate to government-approved markets failed, the decision to remove the street vendors and destroy all of their shanties was made in order to restore environmental sanity.

According to a press release issued by Rotimi Odunniyi, the Ministry of Environment’s press officer, Abiodun voiced worries about the animal vendors’ and other traders’ ongoing presence in the “filthy shanties,” which he claimed they had turned into their homes.

The governor stated that open defecation is becoming a common practice among the traders at the illegal market and warned that this trend could result in the spread of infectious diseases like cholera in nearby towns.

Abiodun emphasized, “So, my government will not wait and allow a small group of individuals to put the safety and health of our decent people at risk by trading outside approved markets.”

In response, Oba Bamgbola promised that the locals would support the government’s endeavors to eradicate the street vendors’ threat from the axis.

The monarch acknowledged that in addition to creating environmental problems, the shanties are being exploited by criminals as a means of attacking defenseless inhabitants and other gullible members of the public.

claims that the sale of cows, rams, and other animals is a common activity at the Kara market, which is located along the Lagos-Ibadan highway.