EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State Government has said that traders at the Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in the Mushin Local Government Area of the state must clean up the area, as well as create sanitation monitoring team before the market can fully be reopened.
EKO HOT BLOG had earlier reported that the Lagos State Government shut the popular auto spare parts market on Friday, July 29, 2021.
It was earlier reported that the Ladipo Market was shut by the state government indefinitely after the traders contravened environmental laws.
However, since the closure of the popular market, commercial activities have been on a low scale.
When contacted, the Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, said the state government was ready to reopen the Ladipo Market if the traders fulfilled the conditions given to them.
Odumboni said, “They should clean up the canal; employ people – like a monitoring team – that will stop people from pouring things inside that canal. They must tidy up the market.
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“Then, they should take pictures of the market and give us an action plan of what they will be doing every month to ensure that it is clean. Then, we will open the market,” the LAWMA boss said.
He further stressed that the popular Ladipo Market was shut after repeated warnings by LAWMA were ignored, saying, “If you go to Ladipo market, you will see that the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has cleared the drain behind the market; but the traders have been pouring waste inside the drain. We provide them with four bins and we have been picking the waste for over a year now, they refused to pay for the services.
“We called them, served them notice of contravention more than five times, they ignored them.
“There is also the aspect of outstanding debt, but it is not the reason we closed the market. They should find a robust system of waste management and stop pouring waste in the canal,” Odumboni said.
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However, the President-General of Ladipo Market Association, Mr. Jude Nwankwo, while reacting to the latest development said the market leadership did not receive any notice from the government.
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