The government has sealed up the Mile 12 International Market and Owode Onirin Market over non-compliance with environmental laws.

This was disclosed by Senior Special Assistant on New Media to Governor BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU, JUBRIL GAWAT, in a post on his social media account.

GAWAT explained that enforcement operatives from Lagos Waste Management Agency and Kick Against Indiscipline, in a joint operation sealed up the markets acting on the directives of Commissioner for Environment, TOKUNBO WAHAB.

According to him, the decision to seal up the markets is due to indiscriminate dumping and burning of refuse, filthy environment, and blocked, and littered drainages.

He said that the menace of illegal and indiscriminate parking and the abandonment of trucks on major roads that impede the free flow of traffic are also reasons for the closure.