Following the clash between Yoruba and Hausa traders at the popular Shasha Market in Ibadan last week, the Oyo State House of Assembly has urged the State government to consider the possibility of relocating the market to a new and bigger site.
The lawmakers in their resolutions noted that the present place where the market is located can no longer accommodate the number of traders and the volume of goods in the market hence the need for the government to move the market to a new area. The Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin said it is unfortunate that the crisis was not well managed by the Hausa and Yoruba indigenes at the market.
“The clash between traders of Yoruba and Hausa extractions should not have been allowed to snowball into a situation where lives and properties would be lost.“Our Police should collaborate more with various security agencies to enable them arrest criminals who are bent on tormenting trouble amongst us.”