Warehouse owners at Ladipo International Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin Local Council, Lagos State, have commended the Federal Government for intervening in the traffic crisis in the market, which affects the Apapa–Oworonshoki Expressway.

Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola led a Federal Government delegation last week to assess the situation, after which he made recommendations on the way to ease the traffic congestion created by hoodlums on the busy federal road.

Coordinator of the group, Mr. Olisah Chigbo, said that fencing will ease the artificial traffic bottleneck.

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Chigbo, however, appealed that his group be allowed to take charge of the setback, even if it means providing security and landscaping for the area to avoid hoodlums using it.

“As law-abiding citizens, we have written series of letters to the state government through the local council as well as the police through their representatives. The response has always been that we should settle the matter with the hoodlums amicably, which made the hoodlums to remain defiant,” he said.

He described the perimeter fencing the government plans to construct as a good development, but suggested that it should be done in a way that will not bring discomfort to millions of Nigerians, whose sources of livelihood are attached to the market.