By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri
The caretaker chairman of Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state Hon. Inuwa Bwala, has promised that the reconstruction of Pakilama Main Market in Marama town will soon commence to ensure that all the dilapidated structures and other moribund facilities are rehabilitated.
He lamented that the market, which is among the major business centres that attracted thousands of buyers and sellers of agricultural and livestock products, drawn from Borno, Yobe, Gombe and Adamawa states, has remained inconducive for trading in the past 40 years.
The chairman disclosed this on Tuesday, when he visited the market for an on-the-spot assessment of the deplorable condition of the market, which had resorted to make-shift structures to remain in business.
Bwala said that the Wednesday weekly market also offers day and night skeletal services, adding that if rehabilitated and put to use, the market will not only provide jobs, but also create economic development in the area, as well as generate revenue into government coffers.
He said, “I am here to inspect the dilapidated structures in this very important market, which has been operating for decades.
“Rehabilitation of these old structures will soon commence, I want to assure the traders and the people of Marama community to be calm, as more of these delapidated structures on ground will be rehabilitated for a better trading and to prevent goods and services from rain and sun exposure.
“If this is done, it will not only provide jobs, but also create economic development in the area, as well as generate revenue to the government.”
Recall that the chairman, since his assumption into office during his first six months tenure, before his re-appointment by Governor Babagana Zulum, for second term last month, has embarked on various people-oriented projects, including drilling of new boreholes and rehabilitation of broken ones across communities in the council.
Bwala also fixed broken down electricity poles/transformers, handpump and motorized boreholes, as well as public structures, in line with Governor Zulum’s vision to bring meaningful development to the people at the grassroots.
