Business
Traders Hail Wike Over Mile One Market
The chairman of Mile I Rumuwoji Market (Phase two) Shop owners Association, Chief Young Clarke Georgewill, says traders at Rumuwoji are fully in support of Governor Nyesom Wike who according to them, had demonstrated his care and love for quality in the rebuilding of the Phase II of the Mile 1 market.
Chief Georgewill said this at a press conference at the NUJ secretariat in Port Harcourt yesterday. He pledged the association’s support for the governor who he described as Moses of Rivers State.
The chairman stated that his association had the documented original names of the shop owners, warning traders to be wary of some agents who parade themselves as leaders, deceiving people and collecting money from them over a year now and assuring such people that they will get shops depending on the amount they pay.”
He stressed the need for the governor to send a bill to the Rivers State House of Assembly on the welfare of the traders in the market to avoid litigation as well as loss of revenue on the side of the government and association.
He said that by the record available, a total of 2,054 shops were burnt down during the inferno that consumed the old market, pleading for original shop owners to be allocated when the market complex is completed.
Georgewill accused the former leadership of the association for masterminding the fire incident.
Lilian Peters