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Traders Protest Against Police Operations In Anambra


Efforts made by the Anambra state government to sanitize major cities in the state may be facing brick wall, where traders from Awka,  numbering in their hundreds  protest to the state police command headquarters challenging the new government policy on keeping the motoring highway clear from obstructions.
The traders, who represent different markets along Ziks Avenue and Nnamdi Azikiwe Temporary Site Awka, called on the police authority to caution its men from carrying out measures not favourable to the well being of the citizens.

They outlined effforts made to straighten sanity on the above mentioned market places and institute programmes on their own  to  ensure law and order is maintained  but was later altered by the invasion of the state police force called ‘’ Operation Okpochapu’’ who invaded their street to less people’s  tires and forcefully remove some market people selling in their different markets stands.
The traders, who earlier had a close door meeting with the state deputy commisioner of police Mr. P. D.  Yakadi, later spoke to journalists on how they were dissapointed in the action of the men of  Nigerian Police Force but profer a lasting suggestion of  instituting a mobile court along the market places to arrest and prosecute  anyone found wanting.
In his reaction, Chairman Ziks Avenue Market Union Traders Association, Pharmacist Iyke Okafor expressed dissapointment on what he regarded as a calculated attempt to send the traders our of business, and called for a collective working relationship with the state government to achieve a common goal of development in the state.
He described the Police operation as an attempt poised to destroy their business environment and attributed it as an act of opression and fragnrat infringment on their human right as a citizen of the state. His word ‘’  We were just against the movement of the police through their  Operation Okpochapu vehicles , piercing peoples cars who parked to transact busienss on Ziks Avenue Awka and its environ’’
 Reacting to their protest, the Police Spokesman for Anambra Police Command, Mr. Uche Eze said the command was only carrying out directive of the state government to ensure all highways in the state are kept free from human and vehiular traffick.
He condemend the idea where traders would place their good on major highway and cause obstruction for human and vehicular movement, noted with equivocation that the measure of government was in the interest of the market people and their propective buyers.
''Our own is to impliment the orders of the government of the day, the state government  directs that their should be free flow of traffick along Ziks Avenue which we are implimenting, I also told them to Onitha now, from NITEL to head bridge, and from head bridge to Aba Park,no disturbances anywhere, there must be movement  ‘’ Eze stressed.
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