Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu Donated N100 Million To Traders At Burnt Akere Auto Spare Parts Market
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu Donated N100 Million To Traders At Burnt Akere Auto Spare Parts Market
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, donated N100 million to merchants of Akere Motor Components and Allied Dealers Sodality (AMPADA) in Ajegunle area of the state.
Sanwo-Olu additionally laid substructure for the building of incipient extremely contemporary market for the traders.
Akere Spare Components Market, used to be on March 8, razed by fire, leading to ravagement of goods worth thousands and thousands of Naira.
According to the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Accommodation, the motive of the Fire would require details investigation to ascertained as nicely as post incident enumeration to account for the range of lockup stores and wares lost.
The Governor who made the donation for the duration of his visit to the burnt web page on Wednesday, verbally expressed the efforts by way of the state regime had been to avail placate the plight of the merchants who lost goods and cash in the fireplace incident.
He reproved those fanning embers of discord among Lagosians, and advised the humans to continue to be amalgamated regardless of tribe, faith or spiritual persuasions.
“A week or less in the past we promised to come lower back here to provide immediately help to the humans who had been affected by way of the lamentable incident. This is no longer politics, it is simply a coincidence that it is a political season,” he said
“I am ecstatic to be here to lay the substratum for the incipient market building. Now it is a storey building and a minute emolument that will alleviate the suffering and loss of our traders here. It is for us to make a clear stand that we are now not about ethnic or spiritual division. We are a regime that is people-centered and working to make things higher for them, no matter what birthday party or where they emanate from.
“As long as they are law-abiding, hold to laws guiding the environment, and reverence the heritage of the place they do business, they will continually be accommodated.
“This will additionally send a clear message to human beings who choose to divide us that we won’t let a diminutive variety disunite a sizably voluminous quantity of people. We won’t provide them a house in Lagos and our regime.”
Additionally verbalizing, the Market Chairman, Izuchukwu Uba, assured Sanwo-Olu of the trader’s aid in Saturday’s gubernatorial election.