The Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority (ECTDA) has demolished the multi-million Kenyatta building materials market. It also reportedly destroyed goods worth millions of naira. Bulldozers were used for the demolition exercise at the market located along Kenyatta Street in Uwani-Enugu in the Enugu South local government area of the state on Thursday morning. The exercise continued on Friday morning (today).
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.
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Eke-Obinagu junction in Emene, Enugu
The Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority (ECTDA) has ordered all bystanders, hawkers, highway traders and petroleum tankers at Eke Obinagu, along Enugu-Abakaliki-Cameroon highway to vacate all sides of the Trans-African highway within 14 days or face severe sanctions including demolition and prosecution of offenders.
The Eke-Obinagu road market has in the recent time brought about perennial traffic congestion, made worse with the menace of petroleum tankers, which in several cases resulted to road crashes.
Recently a ghastly auto crash within the Eke-Obinagu market led to the death of Ebonyi state Commissioner for Infrastructure, Engr. Fidelis Nweze.
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