Iyanoba Traders Association on Saturday urged its members at the Iyanoba Ojo Lagos Market to cultivate the habit of disposing refuse properly to avoid sanctions from the authorities.
TBI Africa said the leader of the association, Mr Basil Ezendu, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
According to Ezendu, the leadership of the market and the local government have made provision for trash bins, but the bins are not being put to use in most parts of the market while the whole place is filled with leftover materials from produce sold at the market.
“Greater part of the market is occupied by those selling agric commodities and the qantity of refuse coming from such items are hug; so it becomes herculian to control.
“It becomes worrisome these days that the refuse is now spilling over to the Lagos Badagry Expressway, compounding the periennel traffic situation of the road that has remained under construction for years, ” he said.
He advised the market dewellers to always obey the Thursday market environmental sanitation, saying that the exercise would go a long way toward making the market free of accumulated refuse.
He charged the traders to learn from the misfortunes of other markets that were closed down by the state government because the traders their kept polluting the environment with dirt.
