BENIN CITY - Chairman Oredo Local Government Council Hon. Mike Nosa-Ehima has again warned traders and illegal structures’owners around the King’s Square to stay off the streets, and move into the empty market stalls, as council is ready to forcefully move them out.
The council chairman, who led top council officials and the special Adviser to the state Government on sanitation and Beautification, Hon. Pat Adamu around the King’s Square which has become a beehive of illegal trading and car parking activities emphasised the readiness of the council to bring a high level of sanity into activities around the King’s Square.
Hon. Nosa Ehima explained that his administration had taken the responsibility of decongesting the King’s Square which has informed the construction of the Oredo central Motor park at first Ibiwe to take a huge chunk of the chaotic traffic off the Kings Square
While noting that the construction of the central park was almost completed, the Oredo council boss further noted that with the simultaneous reconstruction of the Lagos street, a huge breathing space was in the offing at the King’s Square, and called for the cooperation of all and sundry.
At the Lagos street, mission Road and Oba Market Road ends of the King’s Square, Hon. Nosa-Ehima appealed to street traders not to display their wares beyond the gutters, into the road, adding that in a few weeks time council would order a demolition exercise that would take offending structures off the street.
The council boos emphasized that his administration would not fold its arms and watch people turn the city centre which is the face of the state, into a dirty and rowdy environment.
In her own remarks the Special Adviser to the Governor on Sanitation and Beautification who is also chairman, Operation Keep Edo Clean, Hon. Pat Adamu, assured of the support of the state government to the efforts of Oredo Local Government council to decongest, especially the King’s Square and ensure its environmental sanitation.
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