Peace Returns To Nnewi Auto Parts Market
Normalcy has returned to Agboedo Motor Parts Dealers Association section of Nnewi Main market after a protest against the chairman, Bro Dennis Ikegwuonu and members of his executive team.
The protesters had alleged that the the chairman was using the association resources for personal purposes.
They accused the chairman of diabolism and also alleged that a powerful auto manufacturers
waa having an overbearing influence on him.
But Ejike Ndubuizu the Assistant Secretary of the association, in a reaction said allegations were untrue.
Ndubuizu accused the protest as a handiwork of some members of the executive working in concert with enemies outside the market.
Ndubuizu said the incumbent executive council has delivered good governance to the traders since they came on board in 2019.
“Our administration has solved the power issue in our section of the market, we have procured a 330 kva generator and ensure that power is supplied to all the shops between 9.00am and 5.30pm.
“Before we came on board, the market lost three traders due to exposure to carbon monoxide from individual micro power generation sets.
“The levy being paid to sustain power supply to the market is common knowledge except for the trouble shooters who are misinforming the unsuspecting members of our association.
“We have approached EEDC for industrial line but they only gave us commercial line which can only meet 20 percent of what we need in the market, so we spent a lot of money to ensure an uninterrupted power supply to our members,” he said.
Ndubuizu claimed that crisis was stirred by those who were jealous the the was being positioned to become the chairman of Nnewi North LGA in the planned Anambra State Local Government Area elections.
“The persons set up whatsapp platforms where they said many unprintable things against Bro Iiegwuonu and other members of the executive council, but the chairman, a law abiding personality, reported them to security agencies.
“I can tell you authoritatively that the 18 man protest has not in anyway affected the stability and equilibrium of our section of the market.
“Trouble makers outside the market should leave traders alone, they should take their negative politicking somewhere else,” he said.
