By Praise Chinecherem
The joint Anambra State government taskforce has pulled down illegal attachment structures and shops in Marine Modern Market, Onitsha in Onitsha South Local Government Area of the state.
The team, led by officials of State Physical Planning Board arrived at the market, located at Gohehol Avenue Marine Modern Market Onitsha to stop action of unidentified developers indiscriminately erecting structures and shops in the market.
The Taskforce also demolished an illegal structure built by youths of Ogbunike which blocked the original waterways thereby causing a high level of erosion and destruction of property in the area.
The exercise also witnessed partial demolition at the Airport Road where another developer was erecting perimeter fencing and structures without mapping out the required distance from the road.
Also visited was Azu Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area where a construction firm converted a road project that is supposedly a dual carriage road into a narrow one.
Recall that the Taskforce had served stop work notices on the developers who remained adamant.
Reacting, leader of the Taskforce, Barr. Chike Mmaduekwe said that the developer had been severally warned to stop, but remained recalcitrant and went about attaching structures to old ones in a way contrary to the law of the State.
He further appealed to wealthy developers in the State to support government in developing the State, using building codes.
“From henceforth, any developer caught carrying out unapproved structures such as blocking of the waterways and erecting of unapproved structures in the state will be made to face the full weight of the law,” he added.
Landlord at the Onitsha Marine Market, Chief Raymond Edozie condemned the action of the unidentified builder who had been erecting unapproved structures around the area.
