Why Post Office Flyover Vendors Were Forced To Leave-Kwara Environment Ministry
The Kwara state Government has again reiterated its commitment to removing any impediment to free flow of both vehicular and human traffic on roads in the state, especially Ilorin, the state capital.
The state Commissioner for Environment, Mallam Shehu Ndanusa Usman said this on Wednesday while giving an update on the exercise carried out by officials of the Ministry at some strategic locations in the Ilorin metropolitan areas.
Recall that the Ministry officials had earlier in the day forced vendors under the flyover at Post office to leave. Many among the affected people are vendors of women’s clothing.
‘The Commissioner for Business, Innovative and Technology , Commissioner for Works including me have had several meetings with Post Office vendors and other stakeholders on the need to stop displaying their goods under the bridge, road median and pedestrian walkways in oder to ensure easy movement of people and vehicles.
During our discussions, we took them to Soludero park and showed them where to display their goods and also informed others to move to Kulende Market to display their goods, with no avail’ Mr Yakub Kamaldeen Aliagan, who is the Press Secretary of the ministry, in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Wednesday quoted the commissioner to have submitted.
Ndanusa also added that the ministry had told them to leave the flyover area on or before 15th of December, 2023 ,but they had appealed to the Ministry to give them till December ending for them to make their good available to customers ahead of the yuletide.
‘We granted their request and they agreed to vacate the place on the first week of January, 2024 but to our dismay, they refused to vacate up till this morning that we started the enforcement.
Let me use this medium to warn vendors at Post Office and all other major markets in the state that we are not going back on our decision in respect of the encroachments Whoever is caught displaying wares on the pedestrian walkway, road median, under the bridge and any other area that will inhibit the free movement of vehicles or people plying the road will face the full wrath of the law’ he added.
Mallam Ndanusa also restated the commitment of the present administration in the state, to putting sanity on our roads, in order to allow free human and vehicular movements and prevent incessant havocs often caused by encroachment on roads-Team@orientactualmags.com
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