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Former councillor in the Port Harcourt Local Government City Council (PHALGA), Hon. Alhaji Nyekachi Ibrahim Orlu has urged the state government to demolish all illegal structures in market to help bring back the state to its lost glory.
Former councillor in the Port Harcourt Local Government City Council (PHALGA), Hon. Alhaji Nyekachi Ibrahim Orlu has urged the state government to demolish all illegal structures in market to help bring back the state to its lost glory.
Hon. Orlu stated this in an interview with Telegraph in Port Harcourt recently.
He said Port Harcourt City Council is not helping matters in any way and such, if illegal structures continues to take place in the state, it would never bring back the state to normal status quo.
The former councillor lamented that instead of the markets in the state especially the popular Mile 3 market to lead in other markets, it is getting worst day by day and called on the Port Harcourt local government chairman to enter into agreement with the state government on how to move the market forward.
"All the things they are doing in the state deface the market because as far as I am concerned, Mile 3 is the best market in Nigeria. I want the federal government to intervene in the matter on how to bring down all the illegal structures. If there is any fire outbreak, there is no way lives and property could be saved. The way I am seeing it, the kind of materials used in building those illegal structures, one day will collapse unless appropriate step is taken to prevent it".
Hon. Orlu who recently bagged a chieftaincy title from Muslims frowned at the cheap materials used in building which he said were below standard and urged the authorities involved to do something urgently to save the situation.
He lauded the state governor, Dr Peter Odili for beautiful infrastructures he put in place in the state, and urged everybody to help build the state because according to him, the governor cannot do it alone.
Hon. Orlu, however, pleaded with him to assist in producing his predecessor who would take over from him in 2007 and it should be a person who knows his programme for the state.