The Ladipo International Auto Spare Parts Market during the visit of Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Sunday, March 3, 2013. INSET: Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN (2nd right), Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello (left), Chairman of the Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, CSP Bayonle Sulaiman (2nd left), President General, Ladipo Central Executive Auto Dealers Association, Comrade Ikechukwu Animalu (middle) and Director of Enforcement, Ministry of the Environment, Oluwatoyin Adesina Onisarotu (right)

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LAGOS State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Sunday said the Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market that was shut last week would not be re-opened until the environmental situation in and around the market improves and the umbrella union of the traders enters into an agreement with the government.

The governor, who spoke during a visit to the market, told members of Ladipo Auto Centre Executive Committee (LACEC) that the reasons for the closure included gross disregard to the environment, erection of illegal structures and improper business dispositions by the traders, adding that all must be thoroughly addressed before the market could be reopened.

The state government’s role in the market, Fashola said, was to encourage the traders understand the importance of a tidy environment, not just for good health but also a crucial factor for a thriving business.

Fashola noted that the rainy season would soon begin in earnest and that government’s intervention was to ensure there would be no casualties as a result of the unacceptable activities the traders had perpetrated in and around the market.[/b]

He said the state government would not want to be responsible for casualties of flood as recorded in previous years in Lagos and other states of the country, adding that shutting the market was only a proactive measure at preventing such casualties.

He said the market would remain closed till “the government is satisfied, after which another fresh agreement between government and the union would have been reached.”

He also assured that government was ready to help traders and anybody doing business in any of the markets to prosper but that a shabby condition lsuch as Ladipo Market, before closure, could not encourage customers.

“No business associates will be courageous enough to visit such an environment. It will no longer be business as usual. The old ways cannot continue. Those responsible have seen where their error lies, and I hope they are ready to adjust so that business can continue.”

Fashola urged the traders to co-operate with the Mushin Local Council in cleaning up and ensuring an environmentally sustainable market environment.

In his response, President, Ladipo Auto Centre Executive Committee (LACEC), Iyke Animalu, assured the governor of the union’s and traders’ readiness to comply with the relevant directives towards immediate evacuation and disposal of refuse and removal of whatever might impede free flow of traffic on the roads, so as to have the market reopened.

“The union will do whatever it takes to ensure that it does not disappoint the governor and make sure the market is made a business-friendly environment for traders and customers”, he assured.


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nedu2000: Pls gov. Amaechi come and do the same to slaughter market

babyosisi: Is there provision for refuse disposal in Nigeria?
No be for bush or street people dey throway dorty?
The country is one big poo

dayokanu: If you cant conduct yourself in a normal way befitting of human they relocate back to your villages in Ekiti, Gombe or Abia

Na the same people go come dey lament say Lagos dirty. Dem spoil dem village wan come spoil Lagos for the indegenes

Ati oko wa ba Ile je gbogbo

ikeyman00: ^^^ well fool listen up

as long as they tackles ur uncle who dump his stools in the gutter behind the scene im happy

get a life fool u and u and that foolish yeye garriman

Rhino.5dm:
^
You ain't happy that the slumps are no more, right? Fool

ikeyman00: ^^^^ wat about the animals that flushes seawage into the gutter in the background

if u ask me those are the real animals

they are ur kin men oo me afraid oo

babyosisi: Is there provision for refuse disposal in Nigeria?
No be for bush or street people dey throway dorty?
The country is one big poo

Bliss4Lyfe: Y do the traders pay tax? Local gov should stop sharing money and start working.

Traders will not wait forever for the local gov to clean the market.

Life most continue and families must to chop.

nedu2000: Pls gov. Amaechi come and do the same to slaughter market