The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, on Friday, instructed stakeholders within the control of markets in Oyo Condition to embed protection measures and protocols within the operations of the numerous markets around the atmosphere to stop screw ups prominent to lack of lives and constituent.
The PUNCH studies that the decision got here within the aftermath of the hot hearth extremity on the Aleshinloye marketplace in Ibadan, the atmosphere capital, which reportedly gutted over 500 retail outlets and stalls.
“I’m really not pleased with the spate of fireside screw ups out there and alternative playgrounds in Ibadan and the atmosphere. It’s too popular for reassurance. My name is for the managers of markets to build and put into effect stringent protection protocols and measures in our markets to stem the current of incessant hearth outbreaks and alternative screw ups.
“Lives and property are precious. It is imperative that we protect and preserve both for sustainable living and economic development. All stakeholders must work together to prevent and mitigate this negative life and economic threatening trend.”
He subsequently sympathised with investors within the Aleshinloye marketplace whose items and wares have been destroyed within the fresh inferno, praying to God to fill up them and pleading with the federal government to peer the way it can mitigate the governess losses.
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