Gov Makinde Has Taken Over Bodija Market, Chased Us Away to Please His Cronies – Traders Allege As Govt Demolishes Shops, Buildings

Gov Makinde Has Taken Over Bodija Market, Chased Us Away to Please His Cronies – Traders Allege As Govt Demolishes Shops, Buildings.

Victimized traders of Bodija market, in Ibadan, have lamented their ordeals and inhuman demolition of their allocated shops and shopping complexes without due process and provision of alternative one, by Oyo State Government led by Engr Seyi Makinde.

One of affected traders who discussed with our correspondent on the condition of anonymity fingered the state Governor, Engr Makinde as a sole brain behind it and alleged that the number man in the state took over the parcels of the landed properties, to please the prospective occupants of the area, whom he described as Mr Governor’s cronies acting behind the cameras.

“Everybody knows that markets, motor parks and some other places, constitutionally, are under the watch of local governments without exception to Ibadan North Local Government Area but unexpectedly, we’ve confirmed that the state Governor of Oyo-State, Engr Makinde have taken over Bodija market, ordered demolition of our allocated shops and chased us away to please his cronies”,victimized trader alleged.

Another affected trader, who also pleaded anonymity revealed that,”When government representatives visited our place and we suspected them that they might be trying to do something strange, we challenged them but they denied that they were not planning to demolish our place. We even told them to their faces that they must not try to do so and they must remember that it was parts of what they said against the immediate past administration which made us to vote for them and if they do so, it means that they’re not promise keepers. Hmmm, they have done so now and it shows that they’re deceitful. Time shall tell”,she fumed.