‘Hand over new Oyingbo Market to traders’

The women’s leader of the popular Oyingbo Market on Lagos Mainland, Alhaja Basirat Balogun, yesterday appealed to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to hand over the new market complex to traders.

She told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the handing over was long overdue since the market was inaugurated in March.

She lamented that ex-Governor Babatunde Fashola could not fulfil his promise to hand over the complex before leaving office.

“Fashola delivered on his campaign promise to build the market and we are happy, but we do not know why he could not handover the market to us after it was commissioned. We complained to the Lagos State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure which promised that Governor Fashola was going to hand it over.

“My market members have been asking questions on when they would move into the shops; some of them feel so disappointed. We want the new administration to officially hand the market over to us,” she said.

The market leader, however, said that lack of adequate drainage channels around the entire market was causing flooding whenever it rained.

She appealed to Ambode to construct drainage channels around the market to avert flooding.

NAN, however, learnt that Fashola could not hand over the market before his exit because of incomplete documentation.

The complex has 902 lock-up shops, 49 open offices and 134 toilets.

Other facilities in the complex include 150-capacity car park, water, sewage and refuse treatment plants, fire safety gadgets, heavy duty generators and six gate houses, among others.

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