It has become a crime to patronize a street hawker in Kaduna state, says the government, after the enactment of a law which makes it a criminal offence for both the hawker and buyers in the state.
Governor Nasir el-Rufai has prohibited street hawking in Kaduna state.
This disclosure was made by spokesman of Kaduna state House of Assembly, Nuhu Goro Shadalafiya.
Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday, May 24, Shadalafiya said, Governor Nasir El-Rufai should be credited for the new act passed last month.
The member who also spoke against the allegation that the 34-member KDHA have been compromised with new exotic cars, said that the cars were for the official works of the 34 Chairmen of the 34 committees of the House as every member of the House chairs a committee.
On the anti-hawking law, he said:
“We have also pass a bill into law to checkmate hawkers who deprive people from owning shops .”
Governor El-Rufai has been in the eye of the storm recently, following the push for the passage of certain bills into law in Kaduna state. A move to enact a controversial religious bill, set the governor against some clerics who did not spare anything as they attacked him verbally in the media.
Meanwhile, El-Rufai declared a state-of-emergency on tomatoes farming in the Kaduna state, on Monday, May 23.
The governor said that 80 per cent of tomatoes farms have been ravaged by an exotic pest, called tomato blight (Tuta Absoluta).
He said about 200 farmers in only three local government areas in the state lost one billion Niara in the last one month.
Speaking at a Press Conference through his Commissioner for Agriculture in Kaduna, he said already, some officials of the ministry had been sent to Kenya to liaise with experts
and return with the best way of arresting the situation.
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