Alaba market: What Ohaneze said about Igbo traders’ plight
By Alex Enebeli
The Ohaneze Ndigbo has expressed self-discipline about the planned demolition of some Alaba Market property dominated by Igbo merchants.
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, President Fashioned of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, said this in a assertion issued by the crew’s National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, on Saturday in Enugu.
Ohaneze said that for the reason that disturbing recordsdata broke, they’ve conducted investigations to resolve the gentle relate.
“The honour of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has been drawn to several unfaithful publications circulating on social media alleging a resolution by the Lagos Pronounce Authorities to rob actions to victimise Igbo voters domiciled in Lagos,” Iwuanyanwu said.
Fixed with his investigation, one respectable provide, Comrade Chinedu Ukatu, Member of the Lagos Pronounce Market Advisory Council, said, “The Lagos Pronounce Atmosphere and Pattern Authority has been issuing warnings referring to the obstruction of some waterways.”
Ukatu, the President of the Ndigbo-Amaka Innovative Market Affiliation in Lagos, went on to converse that “all that came about at Alaba and the emergency discuss about with by express authorities officials were without extend about these blockading the free movement of water via the supplied waterways.”
Ukatu clarified that the directive has “nothing to manufacture with plazas and outlets on markets or along market roads.”
He urged all people to “dismiss the statements and video messages trending on the rep and admonished that such propaganda became once now not well-known for the Igbos today.”
Every other Alaba resident, Chief Ikechukwu Okolo, suggested Ohaneze that some constructions were constructed on waterways, obstructing drainage and causing flooding, namely at some stage in the moist season.
Okolo added that “the homeowners of the affected constructions own since been notified for months, but as we can see, each time the execution pronounce became once to be performed, adversarial authorities officials were compromised, and the flooding anguish continues to this cloak day.”
Chief Evaristus Ozonweke, an Ohaneze chieftain living in Lagos, has also backed up the above assertion. Iwuanyanwu urged the Lagos Pronounce Atmosphere and Pattern Authority (LASEDA) to inform warning and actual judgement in undertaking their duties, and he urged the Igbo in Lagos to dwell silent.
He indicated a urgent deserve to discuss about with Lagos and the South West in the coming weeks, as he became once confident that every of the challenges confronting the Igbo in Lagos would be addressed at some stage in his discuss about with.
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