If you're planning on heading out to the Ketu, or Mile 12 Markets in Lagos, then you'd better forget about it, 'cos the Gidi government has shut down these markets indefinitely for sanitation offences.
The government swooped down and sealed the markets over what they called non-compliance and flagrant abuse of the state sanitation laws as well as indiscriminate loading and off-loading of goods on the main road, creating traffic bottlenecks for other road users.
The closure was announced by the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, who said that while there were adequate toilets in the markets, traders messed uo the surrounding environment with human wastes, and that the closure became inevitable after several warnings went unheeded.
Tunji Bello noted that markets were meant for business activities and not for residential purposes and that converting markets to residential purpose would evidently cause untoward consequences on the environment.
This could actually be one thing the government's done right. Anyone who's ever plied the Ketu-Mile 12 Ikorodu route will understand the issues involved with traffic bottlenecks around the vicinity of those markets. . . it's simply Hell!
One glance will tell you that that place is a breeding ground for future generations of germs. . . and this is supposed to be a place where we buy food for consumption?
Not me.
I'd rather consume Wood.
The drains in those places are clogged; the place is muddy; they smell, and the people. . . Let's not even go there.
This isn't the first time these markets have been closed down for sanitation offences: It's happened again and again, each time sees the government shifting ground.
They should stand their ground this time, and insist that stringent sanitary conditions in the market should be adhered to before it can be opened again.
No comments:
Post a Comment