The Oyo State Government has denied plans to eject traders from Gbagi international Modern Market in Ibadan.

The State Commissioner for Trade and investment Adebayo Olagbenro while speaking with newsmen at the Ministry of Trade and investment after a meeting with the leaders of Gbagi market executives said that government has decided to transform Gbagi market and ensure that hoodlums removed from the market.

The State Commissioner said that the plans to implement this decisions was after series of meeting with leaders of the market who agreed that the beautification of the market is paramount but the oppositions may have been instigating some of the traders.

He also said that the state government will come to the market and have a town hall meeting with the traders to educate them on the need for government to give the market a face lift and eradicate fraudsters from it.

The State Secretary of Gbagi Market Association Folorunsho Tunde said that the traders in the market are interested in the beautification of the market and that those that led the protest this morning will be properly dealt with because they did not inform the leaders of the market before taking such decisions.

The secretary of the association also said that all those that were involved in the protest will be suspended from the market for a whole week, so that anyone planning to do such in future will not do so.

The association urged the state government to support their actions to punish the protesters that went around Ibadan metropolis alleging that the state government has concluded plans to eject them from Gbagi market.

CEOafrica gathered that some food stuff traders selling in Gbagi market were said to have begun a protest from the market area to the Oyo State Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo state BCOS where they alleged that the state government is planning to eject them from the market without providing an alternative.