The Oyo state government has declared a renewed war against street trading with unequivocal warning to all indulging in the acts to desist from doing so or face the appropriate wrath of the law. This was announced by the commissioner for information and orientation, Prince Gbade Lana at a news conference held at the ministry of information conference hall, secretariat, Agodi Ibadan. The new stance of the Oyo state government after a deafening lull in its urban renewal drive follows last week inferno at Molete area of Ibadan which claim no less than 25 lives, most of whom were street traders. At the inception of the current administration in Oyo state in 2011, one policy that was pivotal in its agenda was the urban renewal policy which focused to reform the dirty nature of Ibadan, the state capital and its other cities. However, the implementation of that policy went to sleep not too long as it became business as usual with the return of traders to the streets and the stench taking over until the night of Saturday, the 11th of October, 2014 when a fully loaded petrol tanker fell and caught fire at the popular Molete round about killing tens of lives twenty three of whom have been discovered to be traders at the market at the last count. This seems to be the wakeup call needed by the Oyo state government to return to the trench in the fight against street trading as the state government has now announced that it has upbeat the law banning street trading in the state. The state commissioner for information, Prince Gbade Lana who also announced the setting up of a committee including himself as the chairman, the commissioner for trade, investment and cooperatives; the commissioner for environment and habitat; commissioner for physical planning and urban development as well as special advisers to the governor on media and environment; to see to the total eradication of street trading and return of street traders to various neighborhood market built by government, said the state government is now ready to use all legal instruments at its disposal to enforce the ban on street trading. The state government denounced insinuations from some quarters that it soft-pedaled on the policy on urban renewal in the wake of the coming elections to garner votes from residents of the state, particularly the traders.