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Traders at Mile 12 Market in Ketu, Lagos, have threatened to shut down the market to protest against what they called plans by the Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area to impose a new leadership on them.
Some of the traders told the that they would resist any attempt to impose a new leadership on the market’s Perishable Commodities Section.
The Financial Secretary of the traders’ association, Alhaji Sheu Usman, said, “We are capable of selecting our leaders. We may need a new leader, but certainly not by imposing a stranger on us. There is no crisis in the association. Any attempt to impose any new leadership will be resisted.”
He said all the sectional associations were in support of the current Chairman, Haruna Mohammed.
“All the associations in the various sections – tomatoes, onions, dried pepper, okra and others – are behind the current chairman, Haruna Mohammed,” Usman told NAN.
When contacted, the Chairman of the LCDA, Mr. Abdulfatai Oyesanya, said the Mohammed-led executive was a caretaker committee put in place about six years ago.
Oyesanya said, “The committee was inaugurated following a House of Assembly’s recommendation. And the recommendation still subsists. The association is the council’s revenue agent whose yearly agreement lapsed in December 2011.
“There is no agreement yet in 2012; so the council has the right to put in place a new executive and re-organise the association.’’
Culled from Punch Metro.
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