The Commissioner, Engineer Mike Eraye in the company of the CUDA boss Joe-Mary Ekeng and his counterpart in the State Waste Management Agency, Willie Okokon and some staff of the Ministry Monday, made good their promise to ensure a clean and decongested Bedwell street after over a fortnight of warning to illegal business operators in the street to evacuate or face forceful eviction and goods confiscation.
However, this did not go down well with some auto mechanics who make brisk business in the area and their frustrations were visible as they kept complaining over the activities of the team.
One of them who simply gave his name as Chibuzor said “nna this is bad for business o, this na the main market, where Ayade want mek we go?.”
Earlier, Eraye in an interview had stressed the reason why he is embarking on such task.
“Bedwell supplies over 50 percent of the spare parts we use to fix out vehicles but over time, they have taken the city for granted. It has become a no man’s land. What we are doing here is sanitizing the street by clearing the gutters to allow free flow of storm water and removing shanties which until now constituted a nuisance.”
The clean up exercise which lasted almost ten hours saw over a dozen load of waste evacuated from Whitehouse by Bedwell street to Bedwell by Victor Akan street, a distance of less than a kilometre.