The Executive Chairman, Egor Local Government Council Area, Hon. Eghe Ogbemudia moves heavy equipment and men to Uwelu spares parts market to begin the reconstruction of the burnt section of the market.
It will be recalled, the market was recently gutted by fire, where over fifty luck up shops, containing goods worth, hundreds of millions where completely destroyed.
This singular incident, has practically, rendered many families who are either directly or indirectly dependent on the market inputs and out puts proceeds, incapacitated, leaving them in a state of both shock and in near complete penury.
In view of this, the Executive Chairman, Egor Local Government Council, Hon. Eghe Ogbemudia had resolved to put the affected structures in a better state than it was, as soon as possible, so as to give the traders a leverage of starting their businesses, from some advantageous point.
Today’s activity, even on a Sunday, is a deliberate, conscious, prearranged response to a painstaking, long sensitisation drive, and pragmatic planning by the Executive Chairman, Hon. Eghe Ogbemudia and her team of council management and technocrats along with Uselu spares parts market internal management.
In her address, Hon. Eghe Ogbemudia stated that it purely the responsibility of Local Government to build and manage markets an in this case, her administration very much ready to rebuild and allocate the shops to traders and advised the union the be informed of their limitations and cooperate with the her administration as she begins the rebuilding of the burnt structures in the market.
It is worthy of note that, It was during one of her post inferno visitation to the market, that Hon. Eghe Ogbemudia, assured them of her administrations’ readiness to promptly reconstruct all the affected shops and also add new features in the market that will prevent reoccurrence of this kind of misfortune that brings nobody, any good.
Hon. Eghe Ogbemudia assured the traders also during her earliest visitation, that in as much as she empathises with them on their current misfortune, she assured them emphatically, that her administration intends to give a better structural arrangement in the market, to house their businesses and bring succor to them as traders and their dependents as well.
On ground at Uwelu spares parts market on this Sunday to clear the debris from the foundation level, for the main work of reconstruction of the stores to commence, is her ever dependable team of Council Administration, lead by Dr. Charles Okpere the Head of Administration, the technical team of Egor Local Government council area, as lead by Engr. Edward Omoregbee and the Director of Environment, Mr. Edenamegho, the Director of Information, Mrs. Augusta Osayende, and the internal management team of Uwelu spars part market, lead by the market administrative Chairman, Mr. Ibie Augustine.