With the influx of people to markets ahead of the festive period, the Ogun state government has threatened to close down filthy, unkempt, and unhealthy markets from trading.
Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, Commissioner for Environment, handed down the warning while monitoring the weekly Ogun state Market Environmental Exercise in Abeokuta recently.
To avoid the sanction, the Commissioner called on market leaders across the state to make sure that their markets are clean for healthy trading saying, that the state government will not fold its hands and watch buying and selling in an untidy environment.
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Abudu-Balogun added that with the prevailing situation the world over, cleanliness should be everyone’s watchword and urged traders and buyers to observe social-distancing and wear face masks while in the markets to aid government efforts at lowering the curve of Covid 19.
Responding, Taorid Amode, the Babaloja of Panseke Market, thanked the Ogun state government for the weekly market sanitation exercise and its concomitant benefits, noting that efforts on in various markets across the state to trade in a clean, tidy, and unhealthy environment before, during, and after the festive period.
