diff --git a/go-apps/meep-vis/server/vis.go b/go-apps/meep-vis/server/vis.go
index 934d60911ea3db7a3c2955e6f2d5795a3c3e9342..3a820722c30f3a3cb50956df0c860c7dd67cdfd0 100644
--- a/go-apps/meep-vis/server/vis.go
+++ b/go-apps/meep-vis/server/vis.go
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ func Init() (err error) {
 	log.Info("MEEP_LOCALITY: ", locality)
 
 	// Get V2X brokers. E.g. mqtt://172.29.10.56:1883, mqtt://broker.emqx.io:1883 or amqp://ofriqrpk:e_vS3dw1zs2gb8CVlyzGwQZ8gCRoyTt5@lrat-01.rmq2.cloudamqp.com:5672
-	v2x_broker := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MEEP_BROKER"))
+	v2x_broker = strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MEEP_BROKER"))
 	log.Info("MEEP_BROKER: ", v2x_broker)
 
 	// Get V2X topic. E.g. 3gpp/v2x/obu or AMQP queue name