By Olusegun Folarin
As part of efforts to eliminate illegal street trading during the festive period, the Ogun State Government has introduced “Boot Sales Markets” to address the perennial challenge in the state capital, Abeokuta.
The boot sales markets, an unconventional markets which allow seasonal traders to take advantage of the festival period to display their products and wares in the boots of their cars, vans and makeshift stalls to prospective and willing buyers in an organized, healthy and safe environment instead of selling illegally on roadsides.
The Commissioner for Environment, Mr Ola Oresanya, who announced this in Abeokuta said the markets located at the M.K.O. Abiola International Stadium Kuto and Farmers Market, Asero Abeokuta, would open from nine o’clock in the morning to four o’clock in the evening daily.
While praising seasonal traders who had taken advantage of the two markets to display and sell their wares, products, foodstuffs and other items, Mr Oresanya urged the traders to comport themselves in an orderly manner to justify the government’s decision to introduce the unconventional Car Boot Sales Markets.
He noted that the Boots Sales Markets would end on the eve of the New Year at the two venues and would reopen again in the two venues and other proposed venues in other major cities of the state during next year’s festive periods.
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