Jubilation As Anambra Commissions Market, Gives Deadline to Erring Traders

          

There was jubilation yesterday in Onitsha as the Anambra state Government commissioned the new ultramodern polythene and allied market built by traders of polythene and plastic materials dealers of Madueke Street, Onitsha even as the traders were given December 1^st, 2014 deadline to pack in reports Odogwu Blog.

Commissioning the market located at Ikenga, Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Governor Willie Obiano said he was highly elated at the effort of the traders in completing the market which he said was aimed at decongesting Onitsha market.

Obiano represented by the state Commissioner for Commerce and Industries, Mr. Ifeatu Onejeme  noted that government would always encourage traders on completing their new business site by providing social amenities such as: security, streetlight and other facilities to make such market attractive to traders and their customers.

 

Obiano however, expressed anger over the conversion of toilet facilities to shops as experienced in some markets across the state.

He warned traders of Madueke Street Polythene and Allied Dealers Association who built the market to pack into their new site on or before December 1^st as government would do everything within its power to enforce the law banning street trading.

Obiano further reminded traders of the need to embrace electronic trading which according to him is widely used by traders for safe and quick transaction of their businesses.

In his remarks, President-General of Anambra Markets Traders Association (AMATAS), Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo expressed delight with the leadership of the market union in completing the site and advised all the traders of the polythene and allied dealers presently doing business at Madueke Street, Onitsha were expected to join hands in developing the new market.

In their separate speeches, the Chairman of Polythene and Allied Dealer Association, Chief Matthias Nwokoye and a major stakeholder, Chief Chukwudi Nwokediuko both pleaded with the state government to build the access road that leads to the market as it was almost impassable to motorists, adding that an electricity transformer was also a priority to enable traders power their machines with electricity.

Chief Ezenwankwo told the traders that as landlords they were naturally compelled to do everything possible to protect the market as their property by relocating to its new site in order to make the site boom with business.

Highpoint of the official commissioning of the new market which was earlier preceded by a mass officiated by Rev. Fr. Dr. Ignatius Onwuatuegwu.