Stop turning markets into dumpsites or have them shut – Ogun Govt warns traders

The Ogun State Government, done the Ogun Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA, has warned traders to halt depositing discarded wrong markets, stressing that it aboriginal crook to dumpsites and constitutes biology and wellness hazards.

The Managing Director of OGWAMA, Farouk Akintunde, noted that if they neglect to output the warning, the markets would beryllium shutdown successful nationalist interest.

Akintunde, who doubles arsenic the Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun, gave the informing aft the evacuation of discarded deposits astatine the Farmers Markets, Solu Road successful Ifo and Mamu Market successful Ifo and Ijebu North section authorities aeas of the state.

“A concern wherever marketplace leaders dump discarded wrong their markets alternatively of depositing them astatine designated points for due evacuation by government-licenced discarded collectors is not lone unacceptable but constitutes biology and wellness nuisance to the market.

“Aside from that, these heap of discarded exposes nutrient items sold astatine these markets to avoidable contamination that could pb to imaginable food- poisoning which whitethorn pb to wellness challenges to the wide nationalist thereby exposing residents of the authorities to undesirable diseases.

“Markets operates successful cleanable situation with due discarded absorption and not haven for amerciable discarded deposits due to the fact that it is simply a nationalist spot wherever we each bargain what we consume. Exposing what we devour to discarded is not acceptable...