Lagos — Traders in Lagos metropolis have expressed displeasure on the business hours they lose every week during the Thursdays market sanitation in the state.
They told the News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews in Lagos that the weekly exercise during which, they had to lock shops, was a loss of man power.
The weekly market sanitation lasts between 7:00 am and 10:00 am.
Mr Edward Osin, a printer at Shomolu, said that locking shops for the sanitation was a waste of time and should be discontinued.
He argued that the purpose of the weekly sanitation was to keep the market environment clean.
Mr. Bathelomew Eze, a businessman, called on the government to review the policy to ensure standard environmental sanitation.
“It is a loss of manpower in terms of productivity.
“I believe markets can be opened while environment is still being cleaned, rather than make people lose substantial time of the day.
“Government should make the time flexible for businessmen like us because, in three hours, businesses are lost and this is not good for the economy,” he said.
Eze said that the environmental personnel like the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) should be strengthened to enforce the law and sanction erring traders appropriately.
But Mr Taye Sanwo, a commercial cab driver in Lawanson, supported the three-hour sanitation.
He stressed the need for strong enforcement of the law to improve the conditions in the markets.
The driver appealed to traders to comply with the sanitation law so that businesses can be transacted under clean and hygienic environment.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
