Okpebholo targets commercial revival with Edo markets reconstruction

From Tony Osauzo , Benin
Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, is rebuilding major markets across the state in a drive to revive commercial activities, restore traders’ livelihoods and bring abandoned and underutilised trading centres back to life.
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Dr. Patrick Ebojele, said the projects, being executed across the three senatorial districts, formed part of the infrastructure pillar of the administration’s SHINE Agenda.
Ebojele said the intervention was targeted particularly at markets that had deteriorated, been abandoned or remained unusable for years, depriving traders and surrounding communities of important centres of economic activity.
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