Rumuwoji community of Abali, Rebisi, Port Harcourt City Local Government
Area, Rivers state has faulted recent media claim of move by the state
government to rename popular Rumuwoji Market better known as Mile 1 Market.
Chairman, Rumuwoji Community
Council, Isaac Wigodo, in a statement said the Governor Nyesom Wike
administration which would soon unveil a newly constructed ultramodern wing of
the market, was not considering tinkering with its name.
Wigodo said the state government will not think in that direction as the
peddler of the purported publication by a provincial paper was only trying to
cause confusion between Port Harcourt Chiefs and Rumuwoji community.
The chairman further said that Rumuwoji Mile 1 Market has been so named even
before the Civil War stressing that no state official or chief as insinuated
has mentioned any such move to change the name.
