Some street traders doing business in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, have appealed to Rivers State Government to extend the ultimatum given to them to stop selling on the road. The traders include those who sell around Education bus stop, Mile 1, and Emenike by Ikwerre road.
It will be recalled that the Rivers State Government had recently given the petty traders in front of the New Building of Rumwoji Market, popularly called the New Mile 1 Market, an ultimatum to vacate within seven(7) days or face forceful ejection.
The ultimatum came as the construction company wants to put finishing touches to the parking lot and join it with Ikwerre road.
This ultimatum does not go well with the Petty Traders in the area as some of them interviewed have fear that they may not return back.
They therefore plead with the government to extend the time given to them so as to make alternative arrangement while others said that they need time to sell off their perishable goods.
In an interview with our reporters, a trader who spoke on the condition of anonymity stated that they began selling along the road after the Mile 1 market was burnt in December 2013.
He, therefore, called on the State government to extend the deadline given to them to vacate.
