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  • Ekiti to build cattle market

    Ekiti to build cattle market

    Ekiti State Government has announced plans to build a modern cattle market at Omuo-Ekiti and upgrade the central abattoir at Iworoko to ultra-modern facilities, to boost livestock business.

    Governor Biodun Oyebanji made this known yesterday during the inauguration of the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support (L-PRES) office, project vehicles and motorcycles for effective extension services.

    He said veterinary hospitals would be upgraded and equipped with modern disease diagnostic kits to facilitate samples transportation and reduce turnaround time for testing and release of results.

    Read Also: Traders, shop owners cry out over demolished cattle market

    Oyebanji expressed his administration’s readiness to leverage on livestock and crop production, to boost food security and create wealth through sustainable job opportunities for the people.

    He said L-PRES project, a World Bank assisted project, has become feasible option to restructure Livestock Development Centre (LDC) at Erifun to a livestock agribusiness centre that will accommodate livestock value chain.

    Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Ebenezer Boluwade, praised Governor Oyebanji for his interventions in agriculture sector, to boost food sufficiency.

  • Traders, shop owners cry out over demolished cattle market

    Traders, shop owners cry out over demolished cattle market

    Traders and shop owners at Ugwuoba Cattle Market in Oji-River Local Government of Enugu State have cried out over the ongoing demolition of the market by the state government.

    The traders, who are majorly livestock sellers, said about 4,000 people in the market would have their means of livelihood destroyed if the government did not apply human face in the demolition.

    The state government had last Saturday begun demolition of the market following intelligence at its disposal that hoodlums, constituting security risk to the state, were operating from the market to launch their nefarious activities across the state.

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    Leaders of the market had pleaded with the government to give them time to enable them relocate their goods and cattle to another destination before the beginning of the demolition at the weekend.

    The patron, Ugwuoba Cattle Market Traders Association, Alhaji Buba Dankasa, told reporters in Enugu that the government would have partnered the leadership of the market and that of the host community to help fish out the bad eggs, rather than going on with the demolition of the market.

    The Vice Patron, House Owners and Traders Association of the market, Eze Paul, who could not control his tears, told reporters that he spent 40 years in the North only to return home a few years ago.

    “Where do I go from here? I only returned to my hometown a few years ago to set up this business. How do I feed my family, from what source”? Paul asked.

  • Abia cattle market leadership denies harbouring criminals

    Abia cattle market leadership denies harbouring criminals

    • Counters governor’s claim on dead, headless bodies’ discovery

    The leadership of the Abia Cattle Market, Lokpanta in Umunneochi Local Government of Abia State has denied involvement of its members in kidnapping and other criminal acts.

    Governor Alex Otti had during a news briefing on Sunday said security operatives discovered 50 bodies and 20 decomposing skulls around the market.

    He said the discovery followed criminal activities going on at the market and its environs and ordered that besides becoming a daily market, it would also be non- residential henceforth.

    Read Also: Abia discovers 50 decomposing bodies, skeletons in cattle market

    Speaking at Lokpanta, one of the leaders of the traders, Alhaji Buba Abdulahi Kademure, said it was not true his members were involved in kidnapping and other criminal activities.

    He also denied that bodies and decomposing skulls were found at the market.

    “If they said bodies and decomposing skulls were found in and around the market during a raid, we did not see any. Who are the relatives of the deceased persons?”

    Kademure said it would be difficult for the over 15,000 traders and their families living inside the market to relocate to nearby villages, adding that no village in the area would be enough to accommodate them.

    He appealed to the governor to allow them stay, promising to help in securing the place.