story time (educative)

Barely literate ugo emmanuel did not have any relations in lagos. But he had heard so much about the city from those of his kinsmen who returned from their different stations to celebrate the yuletide back home in the east. Those from lagos caught his fancy, what with the exotic attire and cars they paraded on such occasions.
Emmanuel was fed up with the rustic life in the village. So he gathered enough money and headed for lagos. He believed that the city must offer so much, given the lifestyle of his kinsman he saw each time they visited the village.
Being the commercial nerve centre of the country lagos, famed as a megabits, plays a strategic role in offering endless opportunity to the residents. Some arrived in lagos from their villages only to see the arduous task of survival stare them in the face. Again, the city throws up other realities,where some breadwinners who hitherto were gainfully employed were sacked due to one reason or another from their places of work. And for those in thos categories, the rat race for survival begins. This becomes more excruciating if such people are not educated, as there seems to be limits to which they could go in search of white-colar jobs. Since survival is a natural instinct to man everybody wants to survive. So, they device ways of surviving; and in the process, many take to street trading.
During recent raids by men in KAI (KICK AGAINST INDICIPLINE), many of this traders were arrested and persecuted in KAI Court situated at alausa. Some street traders who could not pay the fines imposed on them had ended up in kirikiri prison. Besides, those arrested usually have their goods confiscated.
Despite incessant raids, the culture of street trading has refilled to die. However, divergent views are being expressed about the phenomenon. While some believe that street trading is a result of a failure of government to provide employment and introduce social security for the unemployed, some have come to see it as an alternate markets, where it satisfies a need