The Iyanoba Traders Association has urged its members at the Iyanoba Ojo Lagos Market in South west Nigeria to cultivate the habit of disposing refuse properly thereby avoiding sanctions from authorities in the state.
The leader of the association, Mr Basil Ezendu, gave the advice in an interview with Journalists 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 quantity of refuse coming from such items are hug; so it becomes herculean to control.
“It becomes worrisome these days that the refuse is now spilling over to the Lagos Badagry Expressway, compounding the perennial traffic situation of the road that has remained under construction for years, ” he said.
He therefore advised the market dwellers to always obey the Thursday market environmental sanitation, adding that the exercise would go a long way toward making the market free of accumulated refuse.
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