Several Traders with stores around Apongbon bridge in lagos Island pleaded with the Lagos State government to rescind its decision to evacuate them from under the bridge, Oyogist reports.
The traders took to the streets on Monday various placards, appealing to the Lagos State Government for reversal of the eviction order.
Recall the popular Apongbon market was razed by fire last week.
The state government while responding to the incident shut down the bridge and gave the traders a seven-day quit notice to evacuate their makeshift shops and containers.
However, the traders who were affected by the fire outbreak pleaded that the state government should allow them to continue their businesses at the same location, noting that they had nowhere else to go.
They displayed various placards lamenting that they were helpless and depended on their stores located around the bridge for means of livelihood.
“We are over 20,000 businessmen and women, please don’t displace us,” one of the placards by the traders read.
