NURTW, Oke Odo Market Leaders Crisis Worsens
The crisis currently brewing at Oke-Odo market has assumed a new dimension as the market leaders have accused a high ranking official of the Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area of playing a dangerous game.
According to the market leaders, the local government issued them permit on 18 January, 2010 for a market parking space, to park their vehicles and off-load goods. The same LCDA on 8 September, 2010, issued another permit to NURTW to operate a motor park in the same premises.
Speaking with P.M.NEWS on the matter, one of the market leaders who does not want his name in print said they pay N100,000 to the local government every werk, without a receipt. He calculated that so far, they had paid a total of N4million to the official, yet, he gave another permit to the NURTW, which he said, has agreed to pay N200,000 per week to him.
The market leader wondered why such a high ranking local government official would deliberately create a combustible situation in his domain.
When P.M.NEWS called the branch chairman of NURTW, Comrade Adeyanju Richard for his own side of the story, he said, “I am not going to speak on that matter.â€
P.M.NEWS also called the executive chairman of Agbado Oke-Odo LCDA, Pastor Kenny O. Okunmuyide to speak on the development, but our reporter left after he had been kept waiting for several hours.
According to an elderly man who sells yam tubers and who craved anonymity, the problem was deliberate. He appealed to Governor Babatunde Fashola to wade into the matter before the traders and NURTW clash.
“The man is just causing trouble here in this market. Tell me, why must he give permit to us and went ahead to give the NURTW another permit for the same place? Governor Fashola should come to our aid because we are not as strong as the Agberos,†he lamented.
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