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Market Sanitation Defaulters To Face Sanctions
Traders who absent them
selves from the weekly Thursday sanitation exercise at the Mile I Market are to be sanctioned.
The station officer, Mile I Police Station, Mr Mara Judge who handed down the threat during the exercise of the Mile I Market last Thursday said that every trader in the market must obey the rules and regulations governing the market.
Judge who is in charged of Sanitation in the market said that no trader is allowed to sell during the sanitation hours as anyone doing so is taking the laws into his hand and warned that any unlawful acts should be reported to the police for necessary action .
Also speaking, the divisional police officer (DPO) Mile I, Mr Akindele Birinyin said that the police is out to protect the traders against unlawful act noting that it beholves them to obey the laws governing the market.
A trader, Mr Emeku Nwanko said that the weekly sanitation exercise has made the market neat and conducive for businesses, while diseases have been kept away from the market.
Another trader, Mrs Adanne Godswill said that during the period of the exercise, the market executive can seize the goods of any trader who stays away from the exercise.
According to her, the exercise is compulsory for everyone doing business in the market, stressing that it’s the obligation of every trader to participate in the exercise.
Sowari .S. Ogolo Nkiruka/ Robinson Emmanuel Okon