Ibadan explosion: Market leader wants
compensation
By Ola Ajayi
IBADAN – FOLLOWING last Saturday’s explosion of a fuel tanker that claimed no fewer than 15 lives at the popular Molete market in Ibadan, the Babaloja of the market, Mr. Wahab Bolarinwa, has called on Governor Abiola Ajimobi to evacuate all street traders in the area.
According to him, the traders contributed to the casualty figures in the accident.
Governor Ajimobi had moved traders away from the roadsides but this was used against him by the affected traders and opposition parties. Apparently because of the fear of being voted out in the 2015 elections, the governor has relaxed his urban renewal policy.
The market leader also pleaded with the government to construct speed breakers on the Molete fly-over up to the market area to reduce the speed of vehicles.
Bolarinwa who spoke at an interdenominational service held at the market said that normal transactions at the market which was suspended last Sunday will resume today.
During the prayer session, Moslems, Christians and traditional worshippers said prayers according to their beliefs although the prayer points were on the repose of the soul of the dead and those who lost property in the accident.
Mr. Dan Onwuo, Mr. Salami Jogunosimi , Mr. Isiaka Yakubu (Hausa leader in the community) as well as Alhaja Iswat Abiola Oyinlola, lamented that for the past thirty years that the market had been in existence, it had not recorded such accident.
They all called on government to reduce the trauma of the families of the deceased and those who suffered material loss by giving them compensation.
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