The Ekiti State Government has announced the allocation of six-month rent-free stalls and shops for itinerant and street traders at the Oja Oba main market, Agric-Olope and Awedele markets.
Ekiti State Commissioner for Trade, Industry, Investment and Cooperatives, Mrs. Omotayo Adeola, made this known during a bilingual audience participatory simulcast in both Ekiti and parts of Ondo states.
She said that the gesture, which is in commemoration of the second anniversary of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s administration in office, was part of efforts to rid the state of street trading, boost commercial activities and fill the vacant spaces and shops at the markets.
Stressing that the purported high cost of renting shops would no longer be tenable for engaging in street trading, the commissioner explained that government is offering shop allocations on an annual rent collection basis with an initial six-month rent-free period as against the previous 15-year lease arrangement that may be…