Wednesday, April 22, 2026 -The Ogun State Waste Management Authority has shut down the Ijebu-Mushin market in Ijebu East Local Government Area over allegations of indiscriminate waste disposal.
In a statement made available to The PUNCH on
Tuesday, the Special Adviser to the Governor on OGWAMA, Hon Farook Akintunde,
said the decision became necessary after market leaders repeatedly failed to
heed repeated warnings from the agency.
He said, “To make their behaviour unacceptable, they refuse
to patronise the PSP assigned to them for proper evacuation of their waste and
prefer to dump their waste indiscriminately in the market.
“Despite this, OGWAMA decided to clean the market through
mechanical evacuation of their heaps of waste and thereafter provided a roll-on
roll-off bin for them to deposit their waste for easy evacuation, but they
refused to make use of the bin and continued dumping waste indiscriminately in
the market.”
Akintunde added that the government would not allow a few
traders to jeopardise public health through poor sanitation.
“The state government, through OGWAMA, will not fold its
hands and watch a few traders put the health and well-being of a flourishing
town into jeopardy by operating in such a filthy environment,” he said.
He urged traders and market leaders to clean up the market
and adopt proper waste disposal practices, warning that failure to comply could
lead to health risks, including contamination of goods and the spread of
diseases.
Akintunde said the market would remain shut until proper
sanitation measures were put in place, stressing that the action was taken in
the overriding public interest.
The closure of the Ijebu-Mushin market adds to other similar
enforcement actions in the state, including the popular Kuto Market in
Abeokuta, which was temporarily shut down in 2022 over filthy and unhygienic
practices within and around the market premises.
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