Abia State government has promised to introduce modern facilities in Ariaria Market in Aba to raise its standards.

 Addressing journalists  on the outcome the state executive council meeting in Umuahia on Thursday, the Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Bonnie Iwuoha, said that a committee had been set up for the purpose.

 Iwuoha said that the committee would not counter the activities of the already existing Abia market development committee.

 ``Every other committee that had obligations which relate to the market would report to the newly constituted committee. This upgrade will only cause temporary displacement,’’ he noted.

 He said the state government would not eject traders from their shops but would modernise the market, resulting to some little discomfort.

 Iwuoha said the members of the committee included the commissioners for land, trade and investment, environment, works, industry and housing and also the attorney-general of the state.

 He said that the ministry for health had been mandated to make all the general hospitals in the state efficient and operational.

 Iwuoha added that the ministry had been directed to provide adequate electricity and security for doctors in the hospitals, stressing that it will make the place habitable for them.

 He said that the ministry of agriculture had taken steps to revive state-owned agricultural estates in various parts of the state.

 Iwuoha said that this was in response to a directive on the revitalisation of such abandoned estates.

 He also said that a committee was set up to review the operations and methods used in the execution of housing projects.

 The commissioner said that the committee was also given the responsibility to resolve the conflict between Union Homes and Federal Mortgage Bank over Unity Gardens Estate at Osisioma in Aba.