Anambra State government through the joint task-force has pulled down illegal attachment structures and shops in Marine Modern Market, Onitsha.
ANN gathered that the shops which are under construction are located at number eleven Gohehol Avenue Marine Modern Market Onitsha in Onitsha South Local Government Area.
The Joint task force led by the officials of Anambra State Physical Planning Board arrived at the Onitsha market to stop the action of unidentified developers who go about indiscriminately erecting structures and shops in the market.
The Taskforce also demolished an illegal structure built by youths of Ogbunike which blocked the original waterways thereby causing a high level of erosion and destruction of property in the area.
They carried out a partial demolition at the Airport Road where another developer was erecting perimeter fencing and structures without mapping out the required distance from the road.
The leader of the Taskforce, Barrister Chike Mmaduekwe in an interview with newsmen said that the developer who has been warned severally to stop remained recalcitrant and went about attaching structures to old ones in a way contrary to the law of the State.
Mmaduekwe further appealed to wealthy developers in the State to support the government in developing the State, using the building codes, warning that henceforth, any developer who is caught carrying out unapproved structures such as blocking of the waterways and erecting of unapproved structures in the state will be made to face the full weight of the law.
Also visited was Azu Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area where a construction firm converted a road project that is supposedly a dual carriage road into a narrow one.
ANN Recall that the Taskforce had served stop work notices on the developers who remained adamant.
Also speaking, Chief Raymond Edozie who is a landlord at the Onitsha Marine Market, condemned the action of the unidentified builder who had been erecting unapproved structures around the area.
