KAI officials descend on vendors over money demand

Different national dailies, valued over a million naira, were yesterday either vandalised and others seized by operatives of Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), at Ikeja, under- bridge Roundabout.
The vendors, who lamented over their losses, alleged that the KAI men swooped on them and their wares because they refused to give them money.
The coordinator of the Ikeja Newspaper Vendors Association, Mr. Emmanuel Edede said he and other vendors arrived at their usual selling point yesterday morning, only to see KAI operatives. The KAI officials vandalised and seized their newspapers and magazines.Edede said: “They said we should vacate the walkways or pay them in order to sell our newspapers at our newsstands.
We refused this demand of payment and the disagreement which ensured led to this vandalism.” Another vendor, Mr. Orji said that all the newspapers and magazines on his stand, valued over N500, 000 were carted away by KAI the officials. He cried: “I don’t know our offence in selling newspapers! We have not caused any pedestrian or traffic obstruction.
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