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By Chimaobi Nwaiwu
The Anambra State Government has warned the traders of Onitsha Bridge Head Drug Market, popularly known arsenic Ogbo Ogwu, that disobeying the directives of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, the authorities authorities and the enactment of the marketplace volition effect successful their being forced to permission the market.
Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo issued the informing done his Senior Special Adviser connected Markets, Chief Evarestus Ubah, who besides cautioned troublemakers disturbing the Ndubisi Chukwuleta-led enactment of the Market Caretaker Committee to refrain from further disturbances successful the market, arsenic they would person themselves to blame.
Chief Ubah who was successful the marketplace to commissioning a 500 KVA Transform procured for the marketplace by Chukwuleta led Caretaker Committee of the market, said that the Governor is satisfied with the benignant of the enactment of the contiguous medication successful the market, and warned that the authorities authorities volition not tolerate immoderate enactment of indiscipline from the traders particularly those who engages successful breaking shops sealed by the enactment of the marketplace owed to their owners engagement successful illicit cause dealings.
Chukwuleta’s medication has been having moving battles with immoderate traders who were allegedly banned from entering for illicit cause dealing, who person reappeared successful the marketplace and person been engaging successful illicit cause dealings and breaking the shops of illicit cause dealers sealed successful the marketplace by the enactment of the marketplace Caretaker Committee.
However, addressing the traders soon aft the play Market Evangelism Prayers, Chief Ubah, said that the Anambra State government, is satisfied with the measures the enactment of the marketplace has taken successful sanitizing the marketplace of fake, expired and substandard drugs, and warned the absorption to the Caretaker Committee to permission the marketplace oregon comply with the directive of NAFDAC, the authorities and the enactment of the marketplace arsenic led by Chukwuleta.
Ubah noted that 99 percent of the traders successful the marketplace person shown committedness to ensuring the eradication of illicit cause commercialized successful the marketplace and warned that it volition not let 1 percent of disgruntled elements successful the marketplace who are allegedly backed by illicit cause merchants, to origin occupation successful the marketplace that volition marque NAFDAC to adjacent the marketplace again.
According to Ubah, “Ndubisi Chukwuleta led Caretaker Committee is doing good successful the combat against fake, expired and substandard drugs successful this market, the medication is besides doing good successful the interior gross procreation to the state, the authorities of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the Solution government, volition not tolerate distraction of the Caretaker Committee enactment by traders causing occupation successful this market. If we drawback anyone who breaks the law, and their store is sealed, and they proceed to origin occupation and interruption the keys utilized to seal the shop, we volition seal the store indefinitely.
“Traders indispensable comply with the directives of NAFDAC successful this market; traders indispensable besides comply with the directives of the enactment of the market, and immoderate levy that the authorities is collecting, everybody indispensable wage it. Nobody is supra the law.
“Governor Soludo appointed radical who were asked to tally the markets successful the state, and immoderate are not doing what the Governor said, but the Chairman of the Ogbogwu and his Caretaker Committee are doing well.
“Ogbogwu has 21 members connected the executive. We recognize that Ogbogwu has the highest fig of members connected the enforcement due to the fact that the Governor wanted to accommodate arsenic galore arsenic imaginable to guarantee sanity successful the market. My 1 rule is that immoderate person successful the marketplace indispensable person a store successful the market.
“Anybody who does not person a store successful this marketplace has nary concern being a subordinate of the executive. We recognize that the individuals causing occupation successful the marketplace bash not ain immoderate shops successful the marketplace and truthful tin spend to disrupt the market. However, we volition not let them.
“Ogbogwu is simply a government-owned market, and you indispensable wage Government tax, and cipher should spell against the instrumentality of the marketplace and the regulatory agency. Those who interruption the cardinal utilized to seal up the store by the marketplace enactment should beryllium alert that they are breaking the law. This is the past warning; we volition instrumentality enactment against them precise soon.
“Allocation of shops to them is an accidental to commercialized successful the shop. The authorities tin revoke the ownership of a store and springiness it to different person. If...
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