Okiki_Oluwa: Honestly, there's nothing LASG can do about sanitation in that market. Dirtiness is in the genes of all traders there. I suggest the traders should be moved to another place.

Drock4christ:
In its strides to keep a healthy and sustainable environment in the state, the Lagos State government has shut down Mile 12 and Ketu fruit markets for not keeping to the state sanitation law.

Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, noted that both markets were closed for their flagrant abuse of the state environmental sanitation law and indiscriminate loading and off-loading of goods on the main road, thereby creating traffic bottlenecks for other road users.

According to him, there were inadequate toilets in the markets, while traders in the markets pollute the surrounding environment with human wastes.

He pointed out that the closure of the markets became inevitable after several unheeded warnings to forestall epidemics and other health hazards in the state.

Tunji Bello reiterated the fact the Government’s policy of not allowing traders reside in the market was still in force, adding that markets were meant for business activities and not for residential purposes and that converting markets for residential purpose would evidently have untoward consequences on the environment.

As conditions for the reopening of the markets, Commissioner Bello hinted that all illegal structures within the market must give way; traders in the market must make further commitment for patronizing the PSP operators and not cart pushers.

He also said that the traders must be prepared to re-organize the loading and off loading of their goods in such a way that would ensure free flow of traffic on the road.

“The traders in these markets must ensure their environment is clean, clear the adjoining road of street traders and make adequate provision for toilets to eradicate open defecation and urination, as well as sign an undertaking to abide by our sanitation laws before their markets can be re-opened” he noted.

The Commissioner further sounded a note of warning to all markets in the state that after several warnings and stakeholders meeting with respective market executives across the state, the state Government will not hesitate to shut down more markets if they refuse to abide and religiously observe the state sanitation Laws.

He also reminded Lagosians that global climatic weather conditions has become so unpredictable, as such, Lagosians should properly dispose their waste through LAWMA and authorized PSP operators.


http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/3690-lagos-closes-mile-12-ketu-fruit-markets

walescounis:

Idiota, mmhtew

slimyem: Why can't dey build a mordern market with stalls,tar the roads and equip with mordern facilities and see if things won't change for better...just like the Ondo state government?
Until that happens,the unclean/terrible state of that market isn't going to change except its not re-opened.

Panter215: Sjurprise the commissioner is asking market women to build public toilet, organise loading and off loading, clear adjacent streets etc. What is the work of governments (local & state) if these women do all these task. Will tbey still collect tax from them?

2Mekus: [b]Fashola and his cronies are tribal bigots. He is always quick to close down anywhere his people are not predominant. A bomb ripped apart a building during the Christmas period inside Lagos causing several buildings there to quake. Till date, the owner of the warehouse that stored the explosive devices is never fished out and the market still thriving there; whereas an adjacent street that had a building burnt by fire in a separate incident had all the shops there shut-down since October last year with majority of the traders there being Ibos.

He has shut down mile 12 again for second time in less than six months. Ebute Ero market by the foot of Eko Bridge is worse than any other market in Lagos, yet nothing of such has ever happened there. The stench that oozes out of that market can kill. The traffic congestion it causes by shop owners who pack their vehicles right on top the bridge linking third mainland bridge is excruciating. There are double and triple packing on the bridge without any consideration to users. I have never seen a single LASTMA official there towing vehicles for wrong packing or challenging the chaos it creates simply because the Yorubas dominate the market. Fashola is worse than Awo in tribalism. His time will surely come and he will move over just like every bigot. [/b]

2Mekus: [b]Fashola and his cronies are tribal bigots. He is always quick to close down anywhere his people are not predominant. A bomb ripped apart a building during the Christmas period inside Lagos causing several buildings there to quake. Till date, the owner of the warehouse that stored the explosive devices is never fished out and the market still thriving there; whereas an adjacent street that had a building burnt by fire in a separate incident had all the shops there shut-down since October last year with majority of the traders there being Ibos.

He has shut down mile 12 again for second time in less than six months. Ebute Ero market by the foot of Eko Bridge is worse than any other market in Lagos, yet nothing of such has ever happened there. The stench that oozes out of that market can kill. The traffic congestion it causes by shop owners who pack their vehicles right on top the bridge linking third mainland bridge is excruciating. There are double and triple packing on the bridge without any consideration to users. I have never seen a single LASTMA official there towing vehicles for wrong packing or challenging the chaos it creates simply because the Yorubas dominate the market. Fashola is worse than Awo in tribalism. His time will surely come and he will move over just like every bigot. [/b]

mstutu: This is pretty heartless .u dont just go and close peoples souce of livelihood and expect them to clean up the market and do all that the govt is surpposed to do 4 them. Why not build a better place n ask them to move there.if they were fasholas relatives, i can bet my 2 cents he would have acted differently.

mstutu: This is pretty heartless .u dont just go and close peoples souce of livelihood and expect them to clean up the market and do all that the govt is surpposed to do 4 them. Why not build a better place n ask them to move there.if they were fasholas relatives, i can bet my 2 cents he would have acted differently.

2Mekus: [b]Fashola and his cronies are tribal bigots. He is always quick to close down anywhere his people are not predominant. A bomb ripped apart a building during the Christmas period inside Lagos causing several buildings there to quake. Till date, the owner of the warehouse that stored the explosive devices is never fished out and the market still thriving there; whereas an adjacent street that had a building burnt by fire in a separate incident had all the shops there shut-down since October last year with majority of the traders there being Ibos.

He has shut down mile 12 again for second time in less than six months. Ebute Ero market by the foot of Eko Bridge is worse than any other market in Lagos, yet nothing of such has ever happened there. The stench that oozes out of that market can kill. The traffic congestion it causes by shop owners who pack their vehicles right on top the bridge linking third mainland bridge is excruciating. There are double and triple packing on the bridge without any consideration to users. I have never seen a single LASTMA official there towing vehicles for wrong packing or challenging the chaos it creates simply because the Yorubas dominate the market. Fashola is worse than Awo in tribalism. His time will surely come and he will move over just like every bigot. [/b]