By Princely Onyenwe, Imo
Imo state traders have continued to count losses as Imo govt demolished World Bank Market but the OCDA Boss insists that only shanties were demolished.
Speaking with the press, traders at the World Bank Market in Owerri, Imo State, at the weekend protested over the demolition of parts of the market by the Owerri Capital Development Authority.
The traders lamented that the state government only gave them notice to quit on Thursday, adding that the demolition of the structure was an insensitive decision by the state government.
It was gathered that some traders lost goods worth millions of Naira to the demolition.
Ikpamezie however explained that he had in May and November, 2020, gone to the market to inform the traders of the government’s decision to demolish the shanties.
OCDA boss said the agency would not only stop at the demolition of the shanties but would also make sure that all the traders use structures in the main market.
He said, “I personally went to that market in May and November, 2020, with a public address system, telling the traders to vacate because the government wanted to destroy the shanties. What we destroyed was not the structures in the market but the shanties that were defacing the market.
Meanwhile, the General Manager of OCDA, Innocent Ikpamezie have insisted that only shanties were destroyed by his agency and advices traders to go into the approved shops by government and stop hawking along the road ways.
9News Nigeria (Owerri)
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