Anambra market to establish indecent dressing committee...as ASMATA PG pledges to pay old woman stallage levy

Anambra market to establish indecent dressing committee...as ASMATA PG pledges to pay old woman stallage levy

By Chinwe Nwacha, Onitsha 

Irked by the spate of indecent dressing at Nkpor Main market, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, especially by the womenfolk, the leadership of the market, has vowed to set up a committee against indecent dressing in the market.

The market leadership made the vow through its chairman, Chief Paul  Okafor, when the President General, PG, Anambra State Markets Amalgamated Traders' Association, ASMATA, Chief Humphrey  Anuna, stormed the market with his executives to inaugurate ASMATA-APGA Support Group, AASG team.

Chief Okafor, reiterated the vow following the speech of the ASMATA PG condemning the mode of dressing by the womenfolk in the market lamenting that even mothers are involve in the indecent dressing and wondered what they will teach their children.

"It is unfortunate that even our mothers who are suppose to teach their children good morals are involve in the indecent dressing thereby worsening the situation.

" Let me tell you, change your wrong ways now before the wrath of God befalls you. Why must you be naked or half naked in the open market. Some widows are also involve, competing with girls. It will not lead you to anywhere," Anuna cautioned 

He advised the traders to German floor their market to look decent as it will assist in attracting customers and other investors to the market even as he lauded them for prompt payment of their market Internally Generated Revenue, IGR.

On the exorbitant stallage fee (#30,000 yearly), which the traders solicited for his assistance to curtail the cost, he pledged to carry their complaint to the state government even as he told them to stop embarking on protest as it will not benefit but rather channel their grievances through normal procedure of petition.

The ASMATA PG after listening to the plea of an elderly woman of 75 years old, Mrs Ofoma Franca, that the amount is much on her, pledged to pay for her stallage levy of #30,000, for one year, lamenting that by her age she is not suppose to be coming to the market to trade but stay indoors and be fed by her children.

Among those that spoke on the high stallage levy included, Mrs Ofoma Franca, Mr. Amaechi Onuhuo, butcher, Emmanuel Egbuna, among others.

Highlight of the occasion was the inauguration of the market ASMATA-APGA SG team led by the chairman, by the ASMATA Public Relations Officer, PRO, Chief Emeka Unegbu.