PHOTOS: Lagos govt evicts street traders in Yaba rail tracks, seals Mushin market

The Lagos State government on Tuesday dislodged street traders operating along the Yaba railway corridor and sealed a market in the Mushin area of the state over poor sanitation.

The eviction was enforced by the state’s ‘Lagos State Waste Management Agency ’ alongside the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps popularly known as KAI operatives to ease traffic movement.Tokunbo Wahab, the state’s commissioner for environment and water resources, made this known via his X handle.

Mr Wahab said he ordered the seal up of the Alamutu market at Idioro, Mushin due to “its poor sanitary conditions and inefficient waste disposal practices.”Lagos state seal up Idi-Oro, Mushin market over poor sanitation.. On Monday, the commissioner said that LAWMA cleared an illegal dumpsite, a major black spot, on Eric Moore Road, Surulere, near Orile Bridge.Good journalism costs a lot of money. Yet only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent governmentFor continued free access to the best investigative journalism in the country we ask you to consider making a modest support to this noble endeavour.

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