Governor Caleb Mutfwang, of Plateau State, has earlier directed stay of action on the ongoing demolition exercise of indiscriminate street markets, opting to first construct morden community markets for traders to carry out businesses in an organised space across the State.
He disclosed this Saturday, while responding to the demands presented to him by the Plateau State Coalition for #EndBadGovernance# protesters at the stakeholders meeting, held at the Victoria Gowon conference hall Government House, Little Rayfield Jos, the State capital.
The Governor observed that good governance was actually a collective responsibility saying, “we have never shy away from being criticised and some reasons for criticism is because we have not communicated effectively.
“That is why, we have taken steps from the past that, we must continue to communicate better each day of the week so that, people can know what we are doing and to know the feelings of our citizens.
“For example, different mixed up on the issue of market about people that have been displaced came up. I have instructed that all the demolitions be halted and we are looking for spaces to develop new and morden community markets across the State”, he disclosed.
Mutfwang, therefore, pledged government’s resolve to ensure that there would be economic prosperity for his people, hence the dire need for government to look for necessary spaces that would be in tandem with the culture of his people who hardly move out of their communities to buy and sell.
He, however, disclosed further that, they have discussed intensively with some private investors about building new markets across the state at the appropriate time and that, these markets would be well equipped with social amenities.
“One of the things we are trying to do around our SMEs’ strategy, is to see how we can pull businesses, for example, in some of the very small businesses like ‘Akara and Suya’. The practice of everybody setting up his small shop in a little corner, is not going to help us.
“We want to see if we can bring 5 to 10 Akara women in one location where we will be able to provide solar energy, prestige and be able to round the use of common services that will give them cost of services”, the Governor assured.
Meanwhile, the number one citizens of the State, has commended the coalition of #EndBadGovernance# group for the step taken and assured them that, he would convey demands that could only be responded to by the Federal Government to Mr. President to look into them.
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