MOMTA Partners lg, RSESA Against Street Trading

The chairman of the
Mile One Market Traders Association, (MOMTA), Deacon Kenneth Chigozie Eze, has said that the association was collaborating with the Port Harcourt City Local Government Council, (PHALGA) and the Rivers State Environmental Sanitation  Authority (RSESA), in checking illegal street trading in the  area.
Eze, who stated this recently, while speaking with  newsmen in Port Harcourt, said the traders who were displaced  last December by  fire disaster were looking forward  for assistance from the Rivers State government.
The MOMTA boss, who attributed the frequent fire incidents in the market to makeshift  stalls erection said the construction of  the second phase of the  mile one market would check the  menace.
He assured the traders that the state government under the leadership of Governor Chibuike  Rotimi Amaechi, which has promised to award contract for the building of the second phase of the market  would be done in no distant time.
He further revealed that a temporary site has already been provided at the former Obi Wali Cultural Centre and Njemanze street for the displaced traders even as he said construction by traders was ongoing.
According to him, the traders were in high spirits and in a short while,  business activities would  commence at the two temporary sites.