Vandals Destroy Stalls At Mile One Market

Some temporary struc
tures to be used as shops, recently built at the new Rumuwoji Ultra Modern Mile One market in Diobu, Port Harcourt have been destroyed by a group suspected to be against the new executive of the market union.
The group alleged to be a combination of loyalists of a former caretaker chairman, and some natives of Rumuwoji community said to be working with him, last weekend allegedly broke all the newly erected structures.
Believed to be an attachment to accommodate some other traders that did not benefit from the last allocation of shops, the structures built in September this year, numbering about 20 shops were said to have generated some argument among traders at the market.
While some said they paid for the space before the structures were built, others said they paid to the former caretaker chairman, Chief Georgwill.
When contacted, the Chairman of Mile One Market Traders Association (MOMTA) Deacon Kenneth Eze, said that what he saw was a surprise to him, on how people just came into the market to destroy property.
He said that those behind the act were likely to be those working with the erstwhile leadership of the association, but added that the market was under the control of Port Harcourt City Local Government which would prosecute the offenders.
Some officials from PHALGA were seen going round the area to ascertain the level of damage done to the structures.

Corlins Walter