No fewer than 169 adire/kampala traders in Itoku market have petitioned the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and the state House of Assembly against an alleged illegal allocation of shops at the newly constructed Adire mall shopping complex .
The aggrieved traders protested the alleged illegal allocation of shops at the mall by the people believed to be loyalists of a former governor of the state, Ibikunle Amosun.
The traders forcefully shut the mall and vowed to resist the opening of the mall until the alleged lopsidedness and injustice in the allocation of the shops were addressed by Abiodun’s government.
Amosun had last month invited President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate some projects which included the Adire Mall Shopping complex, Itoku, Abeokuta.
The traders in the petition which was written through their legal adviser, Idowu Adepeju and Co, obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, accused the former governor of giving the newly constructed mall to people that were not traders at the market whose shops were demolished.
The traders further alleged that a sum of N10, 000 was paid to obtain a form from the past government as a requirement for allocation of shops.
The petition reads in part, ”My clients are complaining of illegal allocation of the shops in the Adire Mall Shopping Complex at Itoku market to the members of Allied Peoples Movement by the Amosun-led administration on his last day in office, 28th May, 2019.
“The worst of it is that, many of the purported allottees were allotted four shops each, and they were not traders at all, neither were they known in Itoku market, while my clients (169 Kampala traders in Itoku market) were not allowed any shop at all.
“It is this injustice that we passionately appeal to your Excellency to correct.”
The aggrieved traders protested the alleged illegal allocation of shops at the mall by the people believed to be loyalists of a former governor of the state, Ibikunle Amosun.
The traders forcefully shut the mall and vowed to resist the opening of the mall until the alleged lopsidedness and injustice in the allocation of the shops were addressed by Abiodun’s government.
Amosun had last month invited President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate some projects which included the Adire Mall Shopping complex, Itoku, Abeokuta.
The traders in the petition which was written through their legal adviser, Idowu Adepeju and Co, obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, accused the former governor of giving the newly constructed mall to people that were not traders at the market whose shops were demolished.
The traders further alleged that a sum of N10, 000 was paid to obtain a form from the past government as a requirement for allocation of shops.
The petition reads in part, ”My clients are complaining of illegal allocation of the shops in the Adire Mall Shopping Complex at Itoku market to the members of Allied Peoples Movement by the Amosun-led administration on his last day in office, 28th May, 2019.
“The worst of it is that, many of the purported allottees were allotted four shops each, and they were not traders at all, neither were they known in Itoku market, while my clients (169 Kampala traders in Itoku market) were not allowed any shop at all.
“It is this injustice that we passionately appeal to your Excellency to correct.”
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