LGs Shut Cattle Markets In Kwara Over Insecurity

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

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

The chairmen, 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) successful a associated statement  said the determination was achy but necessary.

They said they arrived the determination aft an extended stakeholders’ engagement and review.

“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 Kwara 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 6:00 p.m. 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 measurement 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.

“While we admit and regret the economical interaction of this determination connected our people, we’ve chosen to prioritise the information of lives and properties and adhering to semipermanent coordinated and structured information advisement implicit and supra short-term inconveniences.

“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,” the chairmen said.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) successful the authorities has nevertheless appealed to the authorities authorities to urgently intervene connected the closure.

The authorities president of MACBAN, Alhaji Shehu Garba, made the entreaty successful a statement.

He said the closure without the cognition of accepted rulers, leaders and operators was not justified.