Nigeria: Lagos Shuts Ketu, Mile 12 Markets Over Sanitation

24 January 2013

Lagos — The Lagos State Government through its ministry of Environment has insisted that Mile 12 and Ketu Fruits markets which were clamped down on Tuesday would remain shut until the state sanitation laws were complied with by the market operators.

While reiterating the reason for the closure of the two markets in Lagos, the State Commissioner for Environment, Tunji Bello said both markets were closed for flagrant abuse of the state environmental sanitation law and indiscriminate loading and off- loading of goods on the main highway which often lead to traffic gridlock especially those plying the ever-busy Ikorodu road.

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