The State Commissioner for Environment, Mr Mfon Bassey, who led staff of the ministry on the demolition,said the move was to create sanity within the park.
“But late in 2007, some persons decided to constitute nuisance into the park and the overflowing effect was that we started having traffic congestion within major roads in Calabar metropolis. “We issued the traders who were using the containers sufficient notice to relocate and more so, we did sensitisation campaign informing them on the planned demolition”, he said.
He told journalists that the park was commissioned during his tenure as local government Chairman of Calabar South, adding that it was supposed to be a motor park and not a market. On his part, Mr Bassey Efiom, Head of Local Government Administration, Calabar South, told journalists that he was impressed with the development.
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