By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI.
The Igbo National Congress, INC, has called on Governor Rochas Okorocha to “immediately stop further demolition of business places of peasant traders in Owerri municipality, as well as pay compensation to all the traders, whose businesses were destroyed and goods vandalised in the name of urban renewal”.
The INC made the call in a press statement signed by the group’s National President, Mr. Chili’s Godsent.
It was the considered opinion of the group that the current demolition and balkanization of business places of traders in Owerri metropolis, has caused more hardship to the famished traders and residents of the municipality.
INC claimed that the result of the intensive socio-economic and environmental impact assessment of the on-going demolition and balkanization of streets by the state government, which it conducted, was…
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