The Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority (ECTDA) has ordered all bystanders, hawkers, highway traders and petroleum tankers at Eke Obinagu, on the Enugu-Abakaliki-Cameroon Highway, to vacate all sides of the Trans-African Expressway within 14 days or face severe sanctions, including demolition of structures and prosecution of offenders.
The Eke-Obinagu Road market has experienced perennial traffic worsened by the menace of petroleum tankers parked on both sides of the road.
The most recently ghastly auto crash on the road claimed the life of the Ebonyi State Commissioner for Infrastructure, Fidelis Nweze.
Travellers and motorists are usually held up in traffic for hours in the Emene axis of the Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway on account of congestion caused by heavy-duty trucks and petroleum tankers parked by the sides of the road and commercial activities in Eke-Obinagu market.