Nigeria: 6 Years On - Ndigbo Lament Abandoned Enugu Int'l Trade Fair

28 March 2015

ENUGU--People of the south-east geopolitical zone have lashed out to the Federal Government over its failure to construct the permanent site of the Enugu International Trade Fair Complex, six years on. The federal government had designated Lagos, Kaduna and Enugu, International Trade Fair Complexes since 1992 but had completely constructed that of Lagos and Kaduna, leaving Enugu untouched.

Saturday Vanguard's visit to the fair located along Enugu-Ontisha expressway showed that the efficacy of the fair has ebbed copiously even as shanties and makeshift tents dotted the entire landscape. Bushes had taken over parts of the site. There was no sanitary facility where participants and guests can ease themselves at the fair. The consequence is better imagined. The offensive odour from surroundings make a statement. The abandoned water borehole with over head tank lie prostrate and rusty at the right hand corner of the entrance gate.

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