Monarch Sets Up Taskforce To Fight Illegal Street Trading

The Paramount Ruler of Rumuogba in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, HRH Eze Temple N. Ejekwu, has inaugurated a 10-man task force to rid the Rumuogba Flyover and its environs of illegal street trading activities, as directed by  the state Chief Executive, Governor Nyesom Wike.
Ejekwu inaugurated the ten man task force committee at his palace in Rumuogba, over the week.
During the inauguration, he ordered them to arrest and prosecute any defaulter operating illegal trade at the newly commissioned flyover.
“Arrest and  prosecute those bent on defacing the newly constructed fly over and stop all forms of illicit trading under the flyover”, he said .
The Eze Ogba Iji Nu Ede also warned that collecting all forms of monies from vendors to trade under the bridge should desist forthwith or offenders would face the law.
He also warned a popular hotelier in the area to stop his hotel from being used for the purposes of commercial sex as such was not in consonance with the provisions of the law.
The Monarch further urged the task force members to go after girls loitering around the hotel at night or face total shut down.
On his part, the chairman of the task force, Mr Innocent Igweh, promised to work assiduously with his members to ensure illegal trading became a thing of the past in the area.
The community was among the ones listed by Governor Wike as those involved in illegal trading.
But the monarch who is a trained lawyer, was ready to restore law and order among traders operating in the area, and swift by inaugurating the ten man task force committee.

By: King Onunwor