Kunle ADELABU
Hon. Wasiu Adeshina, Chairman, Ikorodu Local Government speaking at the 2019 budget presentation to the lawmakers on Thursday
The Chairman of Ikorodu Local Government, Hon. Wasiu Adedeji Adeshina, has sounded a final note of warnings to those engaging in street trading that they would henceforth be arrested and prosecuted immediately.
Hon. Adeshina revealed this during the budget presentation ceremony held at the Ikorodu Local Government Secretariat in Ikorodu on Thursday(yesterday).
THE IMPACT had reported the plan by the council to get rid of street trading with its attendant effects on traffic at the Ikorodu garage roundabout and Sabo market with a special taskforce which was recently put in place.
“We have setup a taskforce to take care of these menaces at Ikorodu garage and the road leading to Sabo market from Itunmoja and Sabo market axis. The rate at which traders contravene traffic laws with their trading activities calls for intervention from all of us.
“I want to implore all of us to tell our relatives so that they would not start saying that the chairman is acting arbitrarily after voting for their party.
“We have empowered our taskforce to seize any good displayed on the road and immediately arraign the offender at the Customary Court.
“I want to plead with our market men and women to desist from selling on the streets and major roads in Ikorodu.
Adeshina stated that those engaging in illegal trading have been served with several warning notices but they are uncompromising in their illegal engagements.
“We have served several notices to them to desist from street trading but they are not listening and now we are ready to enforce the provisions of the law to the letter.
He also revealed the Council’s plan to rehabilitate the traditional Ajina market to accommodate traders in need of shops and stalls.
“We plan to rehabilitate the Ajina market which is the first night market in Ikorodu. The market has been abandoned.
“The council is in agreement with the traditional institutions concerning the redevelopment of Ajina market and very soon, we shall start t work in that regard.
“We plan to construct stalls and allocate them to whosoever is interested. We appeal to the members of the public to tell their relatives who are illegally hawking on the streets, especially at garage, to approach the council for allocation”, he appealed.
THE IMPACT can authoritatively report that the Taskforce committee put in place by the council to arrest street traders, which is being chaired by the Majority Leader of the Ikorodu Local Government Legislative Arm, Hon. Omotayo Awolesi, would soon start operation.
Sources within the taskforce and council told THE IMPACT that the committee has been meeting regularly to design modalities of operation that would sustain the long term action in order to bring sanity back to Ayangbure road, Ikorodu garage roundabout, Itunmoja-Sabo road and Sabo market axis.
We also gathered that the council is also putting in place logistics for smooth taking off and effective operation of the taskforce.
