By CHIEDU UCHE OKOYE

The Obosi Development Union (ODU) Women Wing leader, Ambassador Augusta Ebunam, has cried out for help regarding the non-functionality of the lavatory and borehole located at the Afor-Adike market, Obosi, Anambra state.

She bared her mind regarding the condition of the market’s borehole and lavatory when she conducted journalists round the market.

Afor-Adike market, which is the largest market in Obosi-inland town, is open for commercial activities on a daily basis, save on Sundays.

Ambassador Ebunam, who oversees the market’s activities, lamented that traders who sell goods at the market would return to their houses to relieve nature as the market’s borehole and lavatory had broken down.

“During market hours, traders who sell goods at the market do return to their houses to defecate.

“And they go outside the market to fetch water, which they will use at the market,” Ebunam said.

A trader at the water, who sells second-hand clothes, Mrs. Ifeoma Okafor, recounted how she hastily returned to her house to use her house’s lavatory when she had stomach upset.

“On an occasion when I was stooling, I returned to my house, hastily, to defecate in my toilet. I nearly defecated on the road while returning home.

“But God saved me from messing myself up with faeces on that day,” Okafor said.

Based on the non-functionality of the lavatory and borehole, which are located at the market, Ambassador Ebunam has cried out to rich indigenes of Obosi, who are public-spirited, to assist in repairing the market’s lavatory and borehole, which had fallen into desuetude, owing to their non-functionality.

“I am begging rich and public-spirited Obosi people to come to my aid. The Afor-Adike market’s lavatory and borehole had broken down for a long while now.

“As a result, traders who sell goods at the market are experiencing difficulties when they want to defecate and when they want to fetch water for use in the market,” Ebunam said.

•Chiedu is of the Anambra State Ministry of Information.