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The Ekiti State Government has announced the allocation of six-month rent-free stalls and shops for itinerant and thoroughfare traders astatine the Oja Oba main market, Agric-Olope and Awedele markets.
Ekiti State Commissioner for Trade, Industry, Investment and Cooperatives, Mrs. Omotayo Adeola, made this known during a bilingual assemblage participatory simulcast successful some Ekiti and parts of Ondo states.
She said that the gesture, which is successful commemoration of the 2nd day of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s medication successful office, was portion of efforts to escaped the authorities of thoroughfare trading, boost commercialized activities and capable the vacant spaces and shops astatine the markets.
Stressing that the purported precocious outgo of renting shops would nary longer beryllium tenable for engaging successful thoroughfare trading, the commissioner explained that authorities is offering store allocations connected an yearly rent postulation ground with an archetypal six-month rent-free play arsenic against the erstwhile 15-year lease statement that whitethorn beryllium beyond the scope of an mean petty trader.
Adeola, however, added that traders would beryllium liable for inferior bills, including energy and sanitation services for due cleaning and hygiene successful the markets.
She urged funny businesspersons to registry and use for abstraction escaped of complaint astatine the installation absorption bureau connected the archetypal level of the Oja Oba main market, adding that they would lone beryllium required to taxable their name, quality of trade, passport photograph and National Identification Number, NIN.
She warned that traders who already person shops successful immoderate of the markets are not eligible for the scheme.
She besides warned that shops already allocated but remained unused oregon unutilised would beryllium forfeited to authorities and reallocated to those successful request of abstraction to trade.
According to her, much than 1 petty trader whitethorn collaborate to get a shop, depending connected the size of their concern and suitability.
She said that authorities would statesman strict enforcement of the instrumentality prohibiting thoroughfare trading successful the authorities arsenic soon arsenic the allocation process is completed.
The commissioner stressed the committedness of the Ekiti State Government to curbing the menace of thoroughfare trading, saying: “Government has spent a immense magnitude of wealth connected the markets to boost economical activities successful the state, and we don’t privation the wealth spent connected fixing these markets to spell to waste. We besides privation to support thoroughfare traders from accidents. The instrumentality against thoroughfare trading volition beryllium enforced.”
Lamenting the precocious outgo of nutrient items and the unfavourable commercialized signifier of disposing of workplace products successful the state, the commissioner further disclosed that the authorities authorities had concluded arrangements to mop up excess nutrient items during the harvest play to guarantee a continuous proviso concatenation astatine affordable prices each twelvemonth round.
That authorities would henceforth beryllium progressive successful each cultivation concatenation activities, from the proviso of workplace inputs to the farmers to the question of cultivation products from the farms to the consumers, successful the involvement of each stakeholders.
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