The Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Micah Jiba, has called for the cooperation of aggrieved Karu Market traders as the council makes efforts to complete the new modern market.
The chairman who spoke through the council’s Supervisory Councillor for Special Duties, Mr. Alex Edim, said the council had been dialoging with the traders and that a lot of things had been done already so that they would not have any reason to complain.
He further stated that developers had been engaged and mobilised to site and added that the resettlement site for the market was already about 95 per cent
completed, thereby.
The chairman advised traders with genuine shops to occupy the already built provisional shops made available for then in the market.
“We have done verification to know who has genuine shops in the market and the traders were all happy.? But there is no way you can bring development in a place without one or two persons passing through pains.
“The genuine shops owners were all carried along, no trader will say that he or she was not consulted. This process started from the previous administration and we built on it,” he added.
Speaking further, Jiba said the administration was pained that traders were doing business along the road and in the sun, to the detriment of their lives and health, and stressed: “We feel everybody should have a shop, and the shops will be affordable to the traders.”