The Federation of Informal Workers’ Organisations of Nigeria (FIWON) has condemned the recent enforcement of Lagos State Street Trading and Illegal Markets Law 2003, saying it is another vicious attack on the poor.

According to the federation, if indeed this is a democracy, the enactment of spurious laws to satisfy the hackneyed taste of our neo-elites in flagrant violation of the constitution must be discontinued.

“It would be recalled that since the enactment of the law and the Gestapo methods and structures that were established to implement it among which is the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) Brigade as well as the Black Maria trucks used to ferry ‘captured’ traders to prison, there have been gross violation of fundamental rights of Nigerians, to move around freely.