Osuwon Omoluabi, a modern gauge for
measuring of stuffs in marketplaces in Osun
State which was introduced by the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola was rejected today as representatives of all the
market women in the state stormed the state
Secretariat in a protest.
The market women especially those dealing
with grains and measurable products closed
their shops and stormed the popular Olaiya
Junction around 11:45 am before they headed
to the State House of Assembly to register
their grievances.
The angry traders frowned at what they
described as imposition of Osunwon Omoluabi
measurement scales, vowing to resist any
attempt by the state government to compel
them into using the scales.
It would be recalled that the state Ministry of
Commerce, Cooperative and Empowerment's
task force and compliance officials had on
Tuesday, thronged the market to enforce the
usage of the measurement scale by the market women especially those dealing with grains and measurable products.
Amiloaded gathered that the women were
chanting various anti-government songs to
express some marketing policies of the
Aregbesola led administration especially as
per the usage of the modern scale.
They therefore rejected the new scale and
told the state government to instead, produce
en-masse, the old scale and ensure full
compliance with its usage through strong
monitoring team which will prosecute non-
compliance by any trader who tampers with
such scale, weights and measures.
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