The Imo State Government has commenced engagement with the stakeholders of Eke-Ukwu Owerri market and opened the subscription for the newly built Eke-Ukwu Owerri Ultra-Modern International Market for traders and interested members of the public.
The Commissioner for Trade, Commerce, and Investment, Rex Anunobi, made this known at the conference room of the ministry during a stakeholder engagement organized by his ministry to engage the relevant stakeholders as he rolled out the plans for the commencement of subscription from the traders and interested public.
The commissioner recalled that Douglas Road, which was a presidential route when the state was created in 1976, is now blocked because of the activities of street traders.
Anunobi revealed the state government’s intention of clearing Douglas Road of street traders with the view of relocating them to their permanent site at the newly built Eke-Ukwu Ultra-Modern International Market, while stressing that the government has provided a credible alternative with modern features befitting trading activities.
Also speaking, the representative of the indigenous people of Eke-Ukwu Owerri market and the chairman of Amawon Youth Taskforce, Onuoha Christopher, said that the Governor has made the people of Owerri proud by not destroying their market, as past administrations tried to do, but by turning it into an Ultra-Modern International Market.
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