Hundreds of traders from Ikosi/Isheri market on Tuesday stormed the Lagos House of Assembly to protest the demolition of the Ikosi/Isheri fruit market in Lagos.
Adejuwonbi indicted the chairman of Ikosi/Isheri local government, Mr. Abdulfatai Oyesanya as the prime mover of the destruction of the market. “We can’t challenge them. They were even firing guns at us. Some people died, while some people got serious injury. “Since they say that the government is for the people. So, we are here to cry to them that they should come to our aid and deliver us from the destruction of our market.“It is from the market we get money to send our children to school. By doing this to us, we are going to suffer. That is why we are here to come and plead to intervene in this issue.
“We pay our taxes and we pay our local government money. So, we don’t know why the chairman should do such a thing and even if he wants to do such, he ought to have called all the market leaders to inform us of the latest development. But he did not. Ajani pointed out that such is not happening to the northerners doing their businesses in Yorubaland.“We are Yorubas. The market belongs to the Yorubas. You did not sell off the market that belongs to the Northerners. Why us?
A member representing Somolu Constituency 1, Hon. Olowo Rotimi, who represented the Speaker of the Lagos Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa said that the Local Government Chairman had been called upon to stop forthwith.“My colleague and I have called on the local government chairman to stop what he is doing now and I know that Mr. Speaker and other colleagues will be interested in this case and they will call the chairman.