OWERRI –Â Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Imo State governor, has inaugurated a 25-member joint committee on the relocation of traders in Owerri municipality to an international modern market at Egbeada/Ubomiri, Mbaitoli Local Council Area.
The committee which has Mark Uchendu, the Secretary to the State Government, as chairman in a communiqué on streamlining the markets in the Owerri capital territory resolved that all markets in the municipality be streamlined along designated intentions of the government in setting up of such markets and along products and services rendered by the markets.
The committee is made up of representatives of the Office of the SSG, Ministry of Non-formal Sector and Market Development, Investors/Developers of Imo International modern market, Egbeada/Ubomiri, as well as those of market unions and associations in the state and task force on market development.
Uchendu, an Engineer who identified the 11 markets to be streamlined stated that in doing so, agreements were reached between the state government and investors/developers and the market association.
The agreements, he said, include that the relief market be designated market for food items only, that the Alaba market be designated as market for electrical and electronics, phones and phones accessories only.
In addition, he said that the Avu Market would be designated market for car dealers (Automobiles), spare parts dealers and Auto mechanics as originally conceived while the timber and allied market, Naze, be designated market for building materials and allied products along with the industrial market at Umuonyeali.
He said it was also agreed, “That all traders dealing on ceramics, tiles, plumbing and allied building materials at the Tetlow Road should immediately relocate to the timber and allied market, Naze, or the Industrial Market at Umuonyeali while all traders currently doing business at the Rotibi Street, Ihugba, School Road, Christ Church, Ekeonunwa, Iheanacho be asked to move to the Imo International Modern Market, Egbeada/Ubomiri.
“The relocation of the Ekeukwu Owerri Market has paved the way for traders to block the Douglas Road thereby forcing heavy duty vehicle to use roads that they are not authorised to use and this has destroyed most of these roads,� he stated.
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Okorocha Inaugurates Committee To Relocate Traders In Owerri
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