In furtherance of the state government’s policy to decongest the streets of the major commercial cities in the state and to enforce the ban on street trading, the Transition Committee Chairman of Onitsha North Local Government Area, Hon. Patrick Agha- Mba led a combined task force team to Ose market and Onitsha Main Market, both in Onitsha North Area Council to clear obstructions on water ways and street traders along the adjoining streets in the markets to make way for a free flow of traffic and free movements in the markets.
The Onitsha North Council Chairman Honourable, Agha- Mba with the combined team of Anambra Traffic Management Agency, (ATMA), Operation Clean & Healthy Anambra (OCHA) Brigade, Onitsha North Traffic Agency (ONTA) and the Nigerian Police from Onitsha Area Command carrying barricades with inscriptions: ‘TOW ZONE, No Parking, No Street Trading stormed Ose market through Bright Street into Main Market, to Sokoto Road, Bida Road and Johnson street, clearing and seizing goods displayed at unauthorized areas, while placing barricades at designated portions along the roads.
Speaking to the press, Hon Agha- Mba said the exercise is to complement what the state government is doing to improve ease of doing business in the state and to safeguard the life of the road users along the streets in the markets.
He commended Governor Willie Obiano for his resolve to ensure that Anambra state remains clean and safe and warned those building structures on drainages, displaying their goods on top of gutters and trading on the streets to desist or face the full weight of the law.
Also speaking, the Anambra North zonal Commander of ATMA, Mr. ThankGod Chukwura explained that the state government is determined to enforce a steady free flow of traffic in all the major markets in the state and charged the traders to abide by the government directive. =UPSOT= In his reaction, the Chairman of Onitsha Main Market, Mr. Kenneth Onyeka expressed happiness with the decongestion exercise and praised the determination of Onitsha North Council Chairman to embark on the exercise which he promised to sustain using the market task force.
In their separate reactions, some of the traders, including Messrs Ifeanyi Ofodile and Chigozie Mozie described the exercise as a welcome development that can make for easy movement in the markets and Mrs Rosemary Chieji who trades on the street said she has no money to pay for shop rent inside the market.
Meanwhile, the entire adjoining streets visited were all cleared during the exercise.
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