Cattle Markets Shut In 7 Kwara LGAs

Chairmen of 7 section authorities areas successful Kwara South Senatorial District, person ordered the contiguous closure of each cattle markets wrong the district.

The assembly chairmen said the improvement was sequel to the prevailing information realities successful the district.

The section authorities chairmen see Abdulrasheed Yusuf (Ifelodun), Hon. Benjamin Jolayemi (Isin), Hon. Azeez Yakub( Irepodun ), Hon. Awelewa Gabriel (Ekiti), Hon. James Fadipe of (Oke-Ero), Hon. Sulyman Olatunji (Offa) and Hon. Akanbi Olarewaju (Oyun).

In a associated connection signed by the assembly chairmen, they described the determination arsenic achy but necessary.

They said the determination was arrived astatine aft an extended stakeholders’ engagement and reviews.

“While the invading criminals person been operationally decimated successful the past fewer weeks, clean-up operations by the subject and hybrid operatives are inactive ongoing.

“Therefore, each Kara markets person been ordered to unopen down with contiguous effect from Friday, September 19, 2025, until further notice. All different nutrient markets are hereby directed to adjacent by 6pm connected marketplace days.

“This decision, taken collectively by the enforcement chairmen, is portion of the ongoing efforts to fortify the information architecture of the senatorial territory and support lives and properties.

“This measurement is simply a proactive step, aimed astatine addressing emerging information concerns and ensuring the information of residents, traders, and commuters wrong district.

“The determination volition beryllium reviewed periodically, and the markets would beryllium reopened erstwhile a conductive situation is guaranteed,” the chairmen said.

While acknowledging and regretting the economical interaction of the determination connected the people, the chairmen said they person chosen to prioritise the information of lives and properties and adhering to semipermanent coordinated and structured information counsel implicit and supra short-term inconveniences.

“However, we usage this accidental to reassure residents and indigenes of Kwara south, that the section authorities councils successful conjunction with the authorities authorities and applicable information agencies are doing everything wrong their powers to reconstruct a lasting bid to the land.

“We therefore, enjoin each and sundry, to beryllium corporative with governmental efforts and information operatives towards collaboratively guaranteeing the instrumentality of lasting bid to our land,” they said.

However, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) successful the authorities has appealed to the authorities authorities to urgently intervene connected the closure of cattle markets successful Kwara south.

The authorities president of MACBAN, Alh Shehu Garba who made the entreaty successful a connection said the projected closure without the cognition of the accepted rulers, leaders and operators, is not justified.

Garba said, “Closing the Kara markets without anterior announcement astatine this clip volition cripple businesses and adhd to the economical challenges affecting families successful the locality, the authorities and the state successful general.”

He called for the contiguous reversal of the assembly chairmen’s determination successful the involvement of justness and fairness.