Peace Mass Transit Boss Denies Buying Enugu Market

The chief executive of Peace Mass Transit Limited, Samuel Maduka Onyishi, Monday, debunked reports that he bought Akwatta section of Ogbete Main Market in Enugu.

In an interview with THE WHISTLER, Onyishi said, “The news is fake, malicious, and unfounded. My attention was drawn to it not quite long. I wonder what I’ll do with Akwatta market! The public should
ignore the rumours.”

On whether he would take any legal action,
Onyishi responded that, “No need at all; I am used to these things. Some interests would want to smear my name in land matters. One wonders their objects.”

The chairman of Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Emeka Onunze, last week, also refuted the rumours that the market was sold to the transport mogul, describing it as ‘a failed calculated attempt to undermine our genuine efforts to upgrade the environmental
condition of the market’.

According to Onunze, “We temporarily relocated the traders of Akwatta market to Garki market, Enugu, to enable the council to rebuild the section of the Ogbete Main Market to standards. The government did not sell Akwatta market to Peace Mass Transit. Our council, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and to enthrone basic
standard hygiene in the market and its environs, on March 24, 2020, shut down the Tomato section of Akwatta in Ogbete Main Market, before the general closure of the entire market.”

Similarly, the chairman of Ogbete Main Market Traders’ Association, John Okechukwu Eze, told our correspondent that, “It is not true that Akwatta section of the market was ceded to Peace Mass. The market was closed to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the state. Akwatta section remains intact. The purported sale is a handiwork of mischief-makers. I call on the public to ignore it in totality.”