Abia State government has set up a committee to oversee the upgrading of the Ariaria Market in Aba to an international standard.
The committee, which is made up of the commissioners for lands, justice, works, industry, environment, industry, housing and trade and investment, would supervise activities relating to the provision of modern facilities in the market.
Bonnie Iwuoha, the commissioner for information and strategy, who disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the weekly executive council meeting at the Government House, assured that no trader in the market would lose his/her shop on account of the market upgrading, which he said would be in phases.
According to him, government was committed to completing the modernisation of the market in good time, and further said that a committee headed by the commissioner for housing, Uche Ihediwa, had also been set up to resolve the conflict between Union Homes and the Federal Mortgage Bank, which had stalled the realisation of the Unity Garden Estate at Osisioma LGA.
Iwuoha also disclosed that state government had directed that henceforth contractors seeking to get contract from the state government must have their operational offices in the state or stand the chance of not getting such contracts.
He further said that the EXCO approved the recommendation of the Finance and General Purposes Committee for road contracts and streetlights in the three senatorial zones of the state.
