Shrill cries and wailings rent the air yesterday at the popu­lar Ladipo automobile mar­ket in Mushin Local Govern­ment Area of Lagos State, as traders watched helplessly when bulldozers demolished their shops to pave way for remodelling of the market.

Area boys helped themselves to the wares and goods of the traders.

Tension started building up in the mar­ket in June following the disagreement between the traders and the council over the demolition of the market, and its re­modelling.

Based on the protest, Ttracing the gen­esis of the crisis, the market leader said, the problem started with the Mushin Lo­cal Government that wanted to remodel the market by demolishing it, without carrying the traders along and also to give them enough notice to remove their goods.

The leader of the traders’ association, Mr. Kingsley Ikechukwu Ogunor, had told Saturday Sun last July, how they were coerced into signing eviction notice by the authorities of Mushin council and the developer. But Mushin council denied it.

Based on the protest, the demolition that had started in July, was stopped.

However, events took a sour note yes­terday when bulldozers ran over the mar­ket.

Saturday Sun findings revealed that a group, Igbo Consciousness in APC had tricked Mr. Ogunor into signing an undertaking that the remodelling of the market should start by October 1, and by then the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the developers would have been signed.

Few days after the leader of the traders signed the undertaking, the developer was said to have travelled outside the country without sealing the MoU as agreed, only to return on September 30, for demolition to commence the following day.

Commenting on this latest develop­ment, Ogunor said the developer was acting in line with the agreement they reached.

According to him, they agreed that demolition would begin by October 1, and each stall, after completion, will be leased for N20 million for 10 years pe­riod.


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/looting-spree-as-ladipo-market-is-demolished/

I smell WAR!!!

This is good ,just as I do not rule out court cases from Ladipo traders, the attendant schism it is going to forment between igbos and lagos government. I suggest igbos should be gearing up for long term economic war, scorched earth policies aimed worse than the £20 policy aimed at depriving hard working igbo businessmen of their sweat and fruit of their labour to lazy clever yoruba land Lords.

Igbos were scammed with £20 policy, indigenisation decree and decree 6,I am waiting to observe if igbos will still be scammed in 2015 by very discriminatory business policies coming from the government of lagos or are there very smart igbo business men who saw this coming and took precautionary measures.

i don't see anything tribalistic about the demolition, if the government has good plan for Lagos , let no foreigner come and destroy the plan

kilode100:
I smell WAR!!!

Between?

kettykin:
This is good

its indeed a fantastic development. Ladipo has always been a mess. Next they should look into Houloby at Ebute metta those market women needs to be organized and stop displaying their wares all over d place

kilode100:
I smell WAR!!!

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kilode100:
I smell WAR!!!

War at alaigbo abi?
Waiting for the reactions of Internet chestbeater.

nice one