The Anambra State Government has sealed the popular Uwa Mgbede Market, located along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway in Onitsha, over poor “environmental and unapproved practices.”
The officials of Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra Brigade, led by its Managing Director, Celestine Anere, shut the facility. This development came a few weeks after the popular fruit market along the expressway was also sealed and traders forcibly relocated.
Anere disclosed that the market was sealed for various environmental contraventions such as unapproved location, filthy environment, blocked and littered drainages, illegal and indiscriminate parking, and abandonment of trucks on the major road, among others.