Traders start clean-up in Alaba Rago market to avoid sanctions

In a bid to evade potential sanctions from government authorities for environmental violations, some traders at the Alaba Rago Market in the Ojo area of Lagos State have initiated a cleanup exercise.

The Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on New Media, Jubril Gawat, disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Tuesday, October 24.

He wrote: “Aside from the ongoing clean-up on the Lagos Badagry Expressway by our special squad led by ACP Bayo Sulaiman, which has already reached Alaba Rago, Igbo Elerin, and other parts, the Alaba Rago Market has started their own ‘magic clean-up’ of their market because they have seen the war against environmental infractions across markets in the state.”

He added: “Though the clean-up by the Alaba Rago market is clearly ‘sudden’, they are not playing the blame game or complaining about being victimised; they are moving to quickly clean their very dirty environment. This exact thing happened to Owode Market too; they still got locked even after their sudden cleaning; even after being sealed, they still did not complain; they hustled to clean up.”

On Monday, the Lagos State Government demolished structures along the Blue Line/BRT corridor on the Lagos-Badagry expressway by a special squad led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Bayo Suleiman carried out the clean-up adding that the operation is now getting to Alaba Rago and its surroundings.

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