Mr Kazeem is one of the hundreds of traders who feel disappointed by what the market has become.
According to several news reports, the project estimated at N2.3 billion was awarded to Edward Consult Limited, an estate developer, in a private-public partnership deal.They envisaged the market would provide a good business environment for market women and men, as it was designed with facilities that include public toilets, health centres, police posts, car parks, electricity connection and CCTV cameras.
In August when UDEME spoke with some of the traders, they said the shops were not occupied because they were rented or sold to civil servants and politicians who have kept them locked up, with no apparent intention to put them to use. At Oroki Market, another roadside facility opposite Akindeko Market, a trader who preferred not to be mentioned for fear of a backlash expressed her disappointment with the market.
“I resumed as the marketing director of the market last May. Before I came, it was something else, but since I resumed office, I have done some work to encourage people to enter the market. That is why it is at this stage you met it. I did so many jingles and bonanzas to lure people in, which actually yielded result with time,” he said.
This is what you get when you attempt to play the Lagos property script in a state where majority of the middle are middle or low income earners.
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