{"id":80680,"date":"2023-07-24T03:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=80680"},"modified":"2023-07-24T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T02:28:22","slug":"lagos-task-force-quits-traders-on-rail-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/lagos-task-force-quits-traders-on-rail-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos task force quits traders on rail tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disclosing this in a statement made available to journalists, the task force\u2019s Director, Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, said the exercise was led by the agency\u2019s Chairman, CSP Shola Jejeloye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jejeloye, according to the statement, said the operation was necessary to save lives and property and also ensure safety and security along rail tracks in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the exercise was carried out to discourage all forms of business activities on rail tracks and prevent obstructions that could hinder the smooth movement of trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe activities of these traders are defacing the outlook of the rail tracks by setting up these slums and makeshift buildings here, but we will make sure that we leave no form of environmental crimes unchecked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The task force boss said the ongoing enforcement across the state would be sustained for a month to dissuade traders from returning, to ensure all rail line corridors are completely recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lagos State Task Force on Sunday said it cleared trail tracks on the Agege area of the metropolis, as part of its ongoing exercise to restore sanity along the railway corridors of the state. Disclosing this in a statement made available to journalists, the task force\u2019s Director, Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80681,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80680\/revisions\/80681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}