Ebonyi community backs market reconstruction, demands compensation

Ebonyi

From Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki

Leaders of Mgbom Na Achara Autonomous Community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, have thrown their weight behind the planned reconstruction of Nkwo Echara Market into an international daily market.

This was contained in a letter written by the leadership of the community and addressed to the council’s chairman.

Notable leaders in the community, including the President General, Philip Eze; Chairman, Town Union, Chief Aja Nwanto; Secretary-General, Udechukwu Obaji; Woman Leader, Chinwendu Chukwunyere; Youth President, Anayochukwu Wilson; and Chairman, Okposi Achara, Barnabas Nwogbuba, acknowledged the importance of the project. They called on the government to address historical grievances before proceeding with the  construction. The community leaders stated that “for the sake of equity, fairness, and justice, the local government must compensate the rightful landowners, many of whom lost their ancestral homes and economic trees when the market was originally established.”

The letter noted that Nkwo Echara Market was originally a branch of Ogwumabiri Market in Amata, where the people of Mgbom Na Achara traded their farm produce.

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