Security: Anambra Market To Mount #1.3M Solar Light In The Market
By Julie Sylvia, Onitsha
The Old Motor, Car Parts Dealers Association, Mgbuka Obosi, Idemili North Local Government, Anambra State headed by the Chief Samuel Ifurunwa has expressed his readiness to mount Solar Lights in and around the market.
This was done following the outcome of the recent meeting of the State House of assembly with the market leaders in the state pertaining the installment of solar lights and CCTV cameras in all the markets in the state.
Speaking immediately after the Friday market weekly prayers in the market, the President General, Anambra State Market Amalgamated Traders Association, PG ASMATA, Chief Humphrey Anuna thanked Chief Ifurunwa and his executives whom he said are doing very well.
He reiterated that the market Chairman Chief Ifurunwa is a blessing to the market and one among the market leaders that are doing well, urged the traders to give him and his executives a maximum support.
According to Anuna, we have many agendas which opening of the market from 7am to 12 midnight is one of them, stating that they are planning the things that would be involved like CCTV cameras which would be displayed in the morning to check out the activities that played out at midnight.
He used the opportunity to informed the traders of another agenda which is the ASMATA New yam festival which he said would be done next week and would be an annual event, with the yams harvested from the ASMATA farmland.
He also said that all the market leaders would have their own portion of the farmland for their yearly new yam festival where they can also plant any cash crop of their choice.
Chief Ifurunwa in an interview with Newsmen said that it was the meeting with the State House members that spur him to do it, noted that he mounted satellites in assumption of office but was not useful due to lack of light from Enugu Electrical Distribution Company, EEDC.
He said” After the failure of the satellite, I decided to go with the outcome of the meeting, I met with my caucus and we met the big fishes in the market who helped us to buy this twenty seven pieces of solar, from Saturday we would mount them.
“This is the first batch and it cost about #1.3M plus, more are still coming, before now, we used to off the light during the close hours and would not disconnect them from the transformer, but this fire outbreak we witnessed 3 days ago in the market made us to be come up with a decision of disconnecting the light from the transformer during closing hour.
“I commended this great idea of Governor Charles Soludo, the Special Assistant to the Governor on markets, SPAD, Chief Evarist Uba and ASMATA PG and thanked our traders who supported in provision of the solar light”,he said.
The market Public Relation Officer, PRO, Pastor Chinedu Igwoegbu in his speech, thanked Chief Anuna, noting that his visit to their market shows that their chairman is doing very well
There was presentation of the first cash crop(yam) from the ASMATA farmland by Chief Anuna to the market chairman,Chief Ifurunwa, accompanied with 10% cash of the money donated by a trader in support of the upcoming ASMATA new yam festival.
Chief Anuna also dedicated the solar light to God, prayed that the light shall bring light and good things in the market.
