Lagos Assembly Calls for Relocation Mile 12 Market after Hausa, Yoruba Clash

 Lagos Assembly Calls for Relocation Mile 12 Market after Hausa, Yoruba Clash

The Lagos State House of Assembly today urged the Lagos State Government to relocate Mile 12 and Owode Onirin markets from its current location to a more conducive place.

This followed the fracas between Yoruba  and Hausa youths  that occurred in the market last week, where many lives were lost and properties destroyed.

The assembly stated this under matter of urgent public importance moved by Hon. Jude Idimogu representing Oshodi constituency 1 that the incident was unfortunate and should be avoided.

The assembly consequently called on the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to relocate the markets to another location after conducting necessary feasibility studies adding that accompanying infrastructure must have been provided.

While commiserating with the family of those who lost their lives in the incident, the state assembly condemned the killings and the attitude of soldiers stationed at the market, who the lawmakers alleged could not prevent the crisis.

The assembly therefore called on Ambode to constitute a high-powered enquiry into the crisis and punish the perpetrators.

The Speaker of the assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, had earlier said the incident was as a result of disagreement among brothers, adding that the state government should summon the courage and come up with a strong political will on the issue.

"Soldiers have been stationed at the market since 1999, yet they have not been able to solve the problem. There is a police station there, what did the DPO do, when the incident occurred?

"It is an open market without structure, we can move the market to another place if we can provide an alternative. We should look at a new planning, we cannot have such a market at the centre of a megacity," he said.