Comments on naijablog: The banning of street trading in Lagos

those street traders need to move back to their vi...

2007-12-25T12:57:00.000+01:00

those street traders need to move back to their villages and farm.

lagos is a city not a village.

They've been banning street traders for as long as...

2006-01-07T07:07:00.000+01:00

They've been banning street traders for as long as I remember now in Lagos. They'll be back...

Its the same window dressing/fire brigade mentalit...

2006-01-06T23:40:00.000+01:00

Its the same window dressing/fire brigade mentality all over again. Never hit the root just keep in motion...dont matter where to
Think about Abuja.... Im sure the place is far more dangerous after smashing an entire market without an alternative... we did have this conversation at nicks.....

And fortunately for the oppressors, Yoruba people ...

2006-01-06T16:43:00.000+01:00

And fortunately for the oppressors, Yoruba people enjoy life too much to even contemplate revolution.

As long as owambes are not proscribed, people will put up with almost anything.

The street traders are slightly annoying sometimes, but they are very far from being the biggest problem Lagos has to deal with.

It is ridiculous. It happens all the time, useless...

2006-01-06T06:15:00.000+01:00

It is ridiculous. It happens all the time, useless governors thinking that they can clean up a state by evicting people without compensation. The history of modern Lagos is incomplete without Maroko which was destroyed to make way for VI extension, abode of the moneyed elite. It's a typically Nigerian response - point out the problem, but offer no viable solution.