Rivers Community Faults News Of Renaming Mile One Market

The Rumuwoji Community Council (RCC), the apex and decision making body of Rumuwoji Community of Abali, Rebisi in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State has faulted a purported publication by a local tabloid that the popular Rumuwoji Market also called Mile One Market may be renamed by the state government.
The Chairman of the community council, Hon Isaac Chibueze Wigodo, in a statement at the weekend, said the story was misleading and had no bearing, adding that the state government was not considering renaming the popular Rumuwoji Market.
A Port Harcourt based local tabloid, South South Voice, had reported recently that the state government was planning to rename the Rumuwoji Market at Mile One, Port Harcourt.
Wigodo urged the general public to disregard such insinuation by the local tabloid, adding that the news was concocted to mislead the public and create confusion amongst the people.
According to him, “although, I do not hold brief for the state government, it has not come to our notice and the government we know will not think that direction”, adding that the writer was only trying to cause confusion between the chiefs of Port Harcourt  and Rumuwoji community.
He said the market has been named Rumuwoji Mile One Market even before the civil war, and alleged that the writer who is from a neighbouring community wanted the market to be renamed to reflect the name of his community.
“The story is misleading and falls short of the ethics of journalism profession. Nobody from the state government or chiefs as stated in the story spoke of the purported move to rename the market”, he insisted.
According to him, the aim of the originator of the news was to bring factions, confusion and mislead the public.