Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,
The Onitsha South Shop Owner Trader Association of Nigeria, OSSOTAN, yesterday embarked on the decongestion of unlawful structure along the streets and roads in their markets.
Our Correspondent, Mr. Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed, says this follows an order given to them by Governor Chukwuma Soludo at Women Development Center, Awka during a meeting.
The President General of OSSOTAN, who led leaders of the traders including the Chairman Haruna Street Traders Association Onitsha, Chief Emmanuel Idoko, Chairman Bids Road Traders Association Onitsha,
Chief Chima Esionye, Chairman Soloto Road Traders Association Onitsha, Hon Emeka Mbachu, and his Secretary, Mazi Uche Izuogu, and Chairman Kano Street Traders Association Onitsha, Chief Nonso Ihejiahwa did the dismantling of all the illegal structures on the roads and water drainages that have for many years defied successive government from dismantling.
Speaking separately the visibly happy leaders of the markets expressed happiness for the easy vehicular movements into and exit of their markets, saying that for the first time in over twenty years vehicles could pass through the roads to their markets without struggling for space to pass with the traders who took over the roads.
The traders who spoke one by one the exercise, are: Chief Idoko, Esionye, Ihejiahwa, Hon. Mbachu and Mazi Izuogu.
They claimed that after their meeting with Governor Soludo in Awka, the saw the need for the decongestion and formed a joint taskforce, named Sokoto road, Haruna, Nida and Kano Street Traders Association Joint Task Force on decongestion of roads, under OSS.
