Abia Commissioner for Trade, Commerce And Industry, Dr. Ukaegbu.
Abia State Commissioner for Trade, Commerce and Industry Dr Chimezie Ukaegbu, says he accepted to serve in the cabinet of Governor Alex Otti in order to assist the administration achieve its mandate of improving the ease of doing business in the state.
Until his appointment, Ukaegbu was an industrialist, importer and an entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom.
Speaking with newsmen immediately after being sworn in as the Commissioner for Trade, Commerce and Industry in the state, Dr Ukaegbu, said his wealth of experiences will do the magic in his new assignment as he would work assiduously to improve the Ministry.
According to him, “my vision for the State through the Ministry is to bring in investors, increase the Internally Generated Revenue IGR for the state, alleviate the pains of people and have a well organized market.
“Our markets are all in clusters but we will be bringing them together by building befitting stalls for them. It’s only when you make the environment conducive that people will thrive with their businesses,” he said.
On the menace of touts around our market areas, the new Commissioner noted that the new system of revenue collection in the State especially the Treasury Single Account (TSA), will curb touting and chase the touts out of business adding that the new administration in the State is prepared to whatever threats such touts would pose.
He reiterated that the State Governor had set up a committee on street trading with a view to ensuring a seamless relocating them without throwing them completely out of business.
Dr. Ukaegbu however, revealed that plans had been concluded to relocate the parks at Isigate Umuahia, insisting that “without parks there won’t be clusters of markets there, so first we’ll relocate them to Okigwe and Aba parks and build a central median for free flow of movement in an around the Isigate.”
