An anonymous Jakande Ikosi Market Trader has come out to complain on the treatment they are getting from the developer who recently developed their Market. The anonymous traders has taken his/her time to send a complaint messages to the President elect and the Governor of Lagos State, the message reads “Dear President-Elect of Nigeria Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu & Our Executive Governor of Lagos state Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-olu, am a one member of jakande ikosi fruit market we have be suffering from the developer they contracted to us to develop our market the name of the developer is Mr Chris onyekachi Samuel immediately he started the project, his been treating us like a slave now , he has taking over the management of the market , he is the iya oloja & the baba Oloja, he relegated all the market executives before he started to develop our market we had an agreement with iya Oloja General where we signed an MOU that he will not take the market from us , inside the MOU He will sell the store to us for N700,000 (installments) but he has reneged on the agreement, He now ask us to pay N1.200M for a store against the amount we agreed on.”
“Unfortunately Majority of all our traders are poor, who can’t afford this additional cost of N500k , now that the market is ready Mr Chris Onyekachi wants us to pay in cash immediately insisting we must pay the cash , we pleaded with him ,we cried and , then he went to go and meet the executives at ikosi LCDA council , the woman told him that she will talk to him the second day our local government chairman come to our market ,he said the price of the cement and blocks have gone up, so anyone that did not have money to pay The New Price of N1.2M should leave the market, so we now went to microfinace bank but they gave us money with interest we bought 850 pieces of kick clab (shops) finance by three microfinace bank , we deposited N200k each , micro finance added N1M , paid Mr Onyekachi N1.2M , we will now pay MicroFinance Bank N1.4m , the total money we bought the kickclap shop from Onyekachi is N1.6M – Grand Total paid to him without bank interest is N1Billion & 20 Thousand Naira this man has been treating us like slaves and then before we allow this man to develop our market we went to Lagos state house of assembly, we went to Lagos state high court at ikeja , we went to federal court at ikoyi we went to alafin of Oyo and the baba alafin called the king of ikosi land that they should not allow a igbo man to develop that market that is a Yoruba market so late baba alafin Oyo reminded Oba of ikosi how they sold all Lagos island to all igbo people after we went to the court and Late alafin of Oyo & iya Loja in general of Nigeria in a meeting with the chairman of ikosi LCDA pleaded with us to withdraw the case from court that we should allow Mr Chris onyekachi Samuel to develop our market and this man is a pdp man in is he contest for house of rep at Enugu During this president election this man went to his state to go and vote while did the labour party win at kosefe local government is this Igbo man onyekachi Samuel sponsor all the Igbo people to vote for labour party at ogudu kosefe area so is the man that sponsor all the Igbo people to vote against apc that is why we lose kosefe to labour party and then this man is been proud that he will be controlling our market for 25year before he leave our market and then we have never seen any where a developer have develop a market that we will be controlling the market in this Nigeria or Lagos state what we know In this Nigeria is that when a developer develop the market when he sold is shop finish he must leave the market, we are begging The President-Elect Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu & The Executive Governor of Lagos State to come to our rescue to save Jakande ikosi fruit market from this Igbo man Chris onyekachi Samuel.”
From a Concerned & Affected
Jakande Ikosi Market Trader.
