The men being forced to lie on dirty grounds by combined team of armed military and police personnel are traders at the Ladipo Market, Lagos, which was recently shut down by the Lagos State Government purportedly over issues with ‘environmental sanitation’ – and we all know where they hail from. Why treat them as mere criminals – for goodness sake, these are men whose wares have been seized/locked up and they are now being paraded as mere criminals!
Anybody familiar with the Lagos terrain knows quite well that the reasons’ being advanced by the Government is hogwash!
If you want to see ‘environmentally unsafe’ markets in Lagos, visit Mushin, Oyigbo, Oke Arin, Idi-oro, Agege and some other markets which for obvious reasons are ‘no-go areas’ for ‘closures’.
The squeeze is on….. Yet some are talking of an ‘alliance’ under a skewed Constitution which makes men unwanted in their home contraption!
Let's restructure and renegotiate the contraption whilst there is yet time.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114557%3Alagos-explains-closure-of-ladipo-market-&catid=1%3Anational&Itemid=559
Picture: Ladipo Market, Lagos
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