RSG Re-assures On Enabling Environment For Legitimate Businesses, Urges Residents To Obey Extant Laws
Nigeria March 19, 2020 Dianabasi Effiong
From: Dianaabasi Effiong
Rivers State Government on Thursday re-assured all residents of the state of government’s resolve to provide enabling environment for legitimate businesses to thrive. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Tammy Danagogo, gave the assurances when he received leaders of the Hausa Traditional Welfare Association of Port Harcourt on a courtesy visit in his office.
Danagogo, who also restated that the state government would continually protect those carrying out legitimate business in Rivers, urged the group to support Gov. Nyesom Wike-led administration to actualise the resolve. He also reiterated the need for members of the public to obey extant laws to ensure peace and development.
Danagogo stated that the state government set up the task force on Illegal Street Trading, Illegal Markets and Illegal Motor Parks to sanitise the streets of Port Harcourt and return it to its Garden City status.
The SSG, who expressed his condolences to the group over the death of their member, called on the Hausa Community to remain calm as the Police is investigating the matter. He said the Police would make public the outcome of the investigation and further assured that whoever was found culpable would face the wrought of the law as ” Nobody is above the law”.
He advised the leaders of the Hausa Community to organise their members who always stood around the Hotel Presidential precincts and cause nuisance to visitors and passers-by. He said that the State Government would partner with the Hausa community to relocate them to a conducive and befitting place for their business.
He said: “I know that most Bureau de Change operators are responsible, but when some of their members always hang around the Hotel Presidential road, other miscreants now joined them to deface the environment and commit atrocities.”
Earlier, Alhaji Isa Madaki, the Sarki Hausa, Port Harcourt and Chairman, Arewa Council of Chiefs South-South and South-East, said that their visit was to draw the attention of the State Government to the incessant harassment by members of the State Task Force.
He alleged that such harassment resulted in the death of a 75 years old man, Alhaji Yusuf Ladin.
