Business activities were Thursday, April 10, 2014 crippled along the Refinery Road in Warri Delta State, no thanks to the on-going demolition exercise of the Delta State Government.
Car Washers, cement sellers and others doing businesses along the Refinery Road were forced to remove their illegal structures from the road.
The victims of the demolition exercise flayed the action of the Government, described it as very unfriendly at a time government has failed to provide them jobs.
Wondering why Government was forcing them out of the Refinery Road that has been constructed, the business owners, appealed to the state government to allow them stay on instead of sending them into the ‘wilderness.’
“What the Delta State Government is doing to us is very painful; but we are begging the government not to push us out of business. For several years I searched for job no luck. Until I set up my Supreme Car Wash on Refinery Road. Right now I have ten staff working for me and now they are driving us out of business. What do they want us to do and where do we go from here,” the CEO of Supreme Car Wash, Efeturi told National Reformer.
“I feel very bad because of the wanton destructions that is going on. They are rendering many people jobless. They have done their worst by sending us back into the labour market,” says Morrison London, a car wash owner along the Refinery Road.
On his part, Engineer Oduh Edafe Unuezi who just built a new car wash along the road, investing over 6.5million, said that; “They want to plant flowers on the road when the people are hungry. I am a Mechanical Engineer and I set up this business to help myself and be an employer of labour, but we have not even commenced business and they are telling us to pull down our structures. It is painful for somebody to have invested so much money on a business and somebody will just wake up one morning to send people out of business. No notice was given to us before this destruction.”
