Electricity To Be Restored At Eke Awka Market Ten Years After

                                                

Electricity will be restored in Eke Awka modern market ten years after before end of February 2014, so said the Executive chairman of Awka-south local government area of Anambra state Hon. Prince Azubuike Iloh.

Iloh who stated this during his ongoing tour of markets in the council area, informed that he will equally provide a generating set as an alternative to.

He said that arrangements have been concluded to restore electricity in the market on or before the end of February 2014.

The council boss equally said that his intentions for the market include the construction of toilets at vintage points, bathrooms, crèche for infants, adequate water supply for sanitary purposes as well as address infrastructural decays in the market to ameliorate the situation.

Chairman of market 3 axis of Eke-Awka market Mr.Christopher Eze  confirmed that in the last 10 years there was nothing like electricity supply to the market and they took to alternative sources as last resort. He said they spent more than 2000 naira to power their gen sets on a daily basis for many years now.

Eze noted that the state governor Mr.Peter Obi had installed a transformer in the market but it is yet to function stressing that they have made several appeal to those in-charge of power distribution but their pleas fell on deaf ears.

Coordinator of Eke-Awka market, Mr.Christian Obi stated that he has spent 30, 000 naira every month just to power his gent set because according to him due to cluster of shops in the market there was need for ventilation and that health implication that resulted from heat whenever there was no electricity was devastating.

Obi maintained that most worrisome was the fact that there have been incessant fire outbreaks in the market due to the fact that most of the gen set were placed on top of the buildings. He called on government to intervene as the situation has taken a serious toll on their business.