Insecurity: Lagos shuts Oshodi market

In a move aimed at addressing the growing security challenges within the axis, the Lagos State Government has shut down Owonifari market within the notorious vicinity of Oshodi in Oshodi/Isolo Local Government area.

Shedding more light on its decision, the Lagos State Government in a statement by its Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, lamented that the market has constituted a menace and is an eyesore within the locality.

The move has however put the traders in a precarious situation, as they will be starting the new year with the dislocation of their means of livelihood. According to findings, many of the traders, who had traveled for the Christmas and New Year festivities, are yet to return when the government took the action.

Ayorinde noted that they have relocated affected traders and shop owners to the newly built Isopakodowo market stalls at Bolade area in Oshodi.

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According to the statement, “the Owonifari loop will be transformed into an ultra-modern bus terminus with new bus shelters that are befitting of a structured park in a mega city.”

It added that the fencing-off of the long stretch of the set-back is being undertaken to assist the Federal Government and the Nigerian Railway Corporation in particular with a view to beautifying it and safeguard lives along the railway corridor by discouraging street trading and indiscriminate use of the space.

He stated further that Lagosians should expect from this transformation exercise, a new Oshodi that will be sane and safe and where both traders and commuters would be pleased to visit and trade.

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