By Eben Enasco
Oredo Government Council has a big central market location for wholesalers and retailers alike in Edo State, according to Dr. Tom Obaseki, the Chairman of the Council.
He said he discovered after a close study that even as the biggest trading center, it is not confined such that street trading will be abolished.
The Council Chairman averred that long-term comprehensive plans have taken shape to build more trading centers that will accommodate not less than 12,000 street traders within the Oredo metropolis.
Dr. Tom Obaseki disclosed this on Friday as a guest of Man Around Town, a live radio program of the Independent Television and Radio, to climax the final day of the one-week-long sensitization project, “Beat Plastic Waste” which recorded huge turnout of staffers of the council.
He maintained that in the past few days, the council has encouraged the larger society to embrace the project Beat Plastic Waste, stating the need to make Oredo cleaner for residents.
He said in the last 30 to 40 years, there have not been existing new trading centers built within the metropolis to accommodate traders apart from the one at Ekae and Ugbor communities, stressing that with the increasing population, there is the need to have more trading spaces.
He said as a government, they have special reservations for the people and have taken veritable steps to make everyone feel relevant in the scheme of things.
