‘Your method is faulty’: Reps member tackles Soludo over Onitsha market closure
“Over the last three years, many markets, plazas and shopping centres across the Southeast have gradually returned to normalcy, operating freely and unencumbered.
“I have worked tirelessly in this direction, and peace was steadily returning to our rural and commercial trading centres.
“Governor Soludo, unfortunately, has unleashed terror on an army of silent agitators who, for so long, had helped to abate the significance of the Monday sit-at-home rituals.”
“The governor’s effort has been executed in the most unconstructive and unacceptable manner.
“These misguided ordinances and actions have reignited embers of fear, hardened resistance and resurrected old resentments which, if left unchecked, could plunge the region into renewed violence, serious crimes and widespread criminality,” he said.
“Governor Soludo cannot force, punish or compel private business owners to close or open their shops, or to trade or refrain from trading.
“Such decisions fall squarely within the ambit of their fundamental rights and are not governed by any state, labour or market-union relationship.”
A member of the House of Representatives from Abia State, Obi Aguocha said.
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