Ondo Govt Prohibits parking along Oja Oba Akure.

– Steve Ovirih.

In its bid to end traffic logjam and clustering by passersby in this period of the second strain of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Ondo State Government has Prohibited the parking of vehicles by car owners and commercial drivers along the busy Oja Oba / Adesida road in Akure, the state capital.

Commissioner for Information and Orientation , Ondo State, Mr. Donald Ojogo who announced the ban said government provided Market Parking Corridors to prevent the clustered parking of vehicles along the market area, adding that trading on the market walkways has already been banned by the government.

Mr. Ojogo appealed for a safe walkway along the market corridor as the clustering is dangerous considering the new wave of Covid 19 that is ravaging the country.

In a related development, Governor Akeredolu alongside other members of the newly inaugurated committee on the cleaning of the state capital had visited Oja Oba walkway in Akure to gauge the level of compliance with the ban on trading on the market walkways.

Marketers who spoke with thepolity.net noted that it was a good idea for Government to curb the massive trading activities going on along the Oja Oba corridors as it has posed economic disadvantage to traders who have stalls in the market as most buyers simply do their brisk buying and selling at the Oja Oba walk way and return home.

An Igbo trader, Mr. Peter Nnaemeka who sells wares beside Olukayode House appealed to Government to provide those who sell along the walkways an alternative site so that they don’t go bankrupt and become a liability , stressing that their only means of survival was hawking their wares around the Olukayode House axis of the main market.