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The Government of Anambra State has sealed the popular Uwa Mgbede Market, located along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway in Onitsha, over poor “environmental and unapproved practices.”
The officials of Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra Brigade, led by its Managing Director, Celestine Anere, shut the facility on Friday evening.
This Eastern Updates reports that this development is coming barely weeks after the popular fruit market along the expressway was also sealed and traders forcibly relocated.
Anere disclosed that the market was sealed for various environmental contraventions such as unapproved location, filthy environment, blocked and littered drainages, illegal and indiscriminate parking, and abandonment of trucks on the major road, among others.
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He said, “The market was sealed off for various environmental contraventions such as unapproved location, filthy environment, blocked and littered drainages, illegal and indiscriminate parking, and abandonment of trucks on the major road, among others.
“Traders should use the various approved markets by the state government which are secured and off the roads for their safety and betterment. This is to warn traders constituting self-markets without approval from the state government. Anyone caught will have his or herself to be blamed.”
The development generated reactions as the traders lamented that no notice was given before the officials embarked on the action.
One of them, Joseph Ukonne, denied the allegations of the government.
In another report, a Mobile Court in Awka, Anambra State has sentenced a middle-aged driver for six months imprisonment for alleged overload of his vehicle.
The Eastern Updates reports that the court presided over by a Chief Magistrate, gave the convict an option of fine.
The vehicle was contravened on Tuesday near the Amawbia flyover, along the Awka-Onitsha expressway by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Speaking with reporters in his office on Friday, Sector Commander, Adeoye Irelewuyi, said the driver was immediately arraigned before the court upon apprehension.
