The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has passed a two-point resolution calling on the State’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Investment and the State Environmental Sanitation Authority as well as other relevant agencies to ensure trading activities around the Zarama-Okordia Market area do not spill into the East-West Road.
The development was sequel to a motion raised on the floor of the House by Tonye Isenah, the lawmaker representing, Kolokuma-Opokuma Constituency One.
Isenah had lamented that the traders oftentimes, deliberately extend their trading activities to the East-West Road, thereby creating avoidable gridlock, particularly during weekly Friday market days.
Contributing to the motion, Speaker Abraham Ingobore and other lawmakers decried the scenario which according to them, has brought untold hardship on commuters.
They called on governmental agencies saddled with the responsibility of enforcing order around markets to rise up to the occasion to avoid ugly incidents which may lead to either loss of lives or property.
The lawmakers led in plenary by Speaker, Abraham Ingobore, thereafter passed two resolutions mandating the Ministry of Trade and Investment as well as the Environmental Sanitation Authority to stop further encroachment of traders on the East-West Roads and other roads across the state.
The legislators equally called on the concerned authorities to consider the building of more market stalls and car parks as solutions in the long term.