SPAR Market in Port Harcourt has reopened its gates for business, Africa Update can authoritatively report. A visit to the SPAR Complex along Azikiwe Road, beside the Government House, on Thursday December 1st, showed vehicular and human movement, signifying the commencement of business activities.
An inside source who spoke with Africa Update on conditions of anonymity said the SPAR Market was reopened after series of meetings between officials of the State Government and management of SPAR Market.
Recall that SPAR Market was sealed after a Court order dated November 17th, 2022 was issued, restraining SPAR Markets from proceeding with Black Friday sales which was scheduled to hold from the 18th to the 27th November, 2022.
The Rivers State government, through the Attorney General of the State, had dragged SPAR Market before a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt the Rivers State Capital. The Attorney General had filed a suit against SPAR Market, the occupiers of Port Harcourt mall, seeking to restrain it from carrying out the proposed Black Friday sales and also ordered SPAR not to further obstruct the state Commissioner for Environment and his staff from accessing SPAR facilities.
The order reads: “It is hereby ordered that an interim is hereby granted restraining the respondent, its agent, servant and/or privies from conducting/ holding spar Black Friday event scheduled for November 18- 27 pending the determination of the motion on notice.
“It is further ordered that an interim injunction is hereby granted restraining the respondent, its agent’s servants and/or privies from further obstruction of the Rivers State Commissioner for Environment and the staff of his from accessing the respondent’s facilities before, during and after the scheduled SPAR Black Friday to evaluate the environmental health and safety equipment aimed at preventing environmental harm likely to be caused by the respondent on the citizenry of Rivers State.”
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