Mile 12 traders threaten shutdown

Traders at the Mile 12 Market in Ketu, Lagos, have threatened to close the market in protest of what they described as the Ikosi-Isheri Council’s plan to impose a new leadership on them.

The Financial Secretary of the traders’ association (Perishable Commodities Section), Shehu Usman, said they are capable of selecting their leaders and will resist any attempt to impose a new leadership on the market.


 
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However, the Chairman of the Ikosi-Iseri Local Council Development Area, Abdulfatai Oyesanya, said the current executive was a caretaker committee inaugurated about six years ago.

“The committee was inaugurated following a House of Assembly recommendation. And the recommendation still subsists. The association is the council’s revenue agent whose yearly agreement lapsed in December 2011,” Oyesanya said.

“There is no agreement yet for 2012. So the council has the right to put in place a new executive and re-organise the association.”

The police have deployed officers and an Armoured Personnel Carrier to the market to prevent breakdown of law and order.
                                            Culled:Dailytimesng