Market Superintendents Want Parking Lots, Marketers Relocated to Omega Market
By: Moses M. Tokpah
Paynesville: Several superintendents of various markets in Paynesville have made a clarion call to the Joseph Nyuma Boakai led-administration to relocate various parking lots and marketers to the Omega Market.
It was also aimed at decongesting the Red-Light Market both in terms of marketers and traffic and provide the marketers an environment that is safe, comfortable, clean and secured for their commercial and other related trading activities.
The facilities are now been used as a home to several disadvantaged youths (males and females) who spend day and night under the market buildings on a daily basis.
But it is being reported that the Boakai administration is also making effort to have the marketers relocated to allow the free movement of vehicles and pedestrians respectively in Red-Light and its surroundings.
Among these superintendents is the Gobachev Market Superintendent, McClain Jallah said the proliferation of marketeers where everybody wants to have a fragment of groupings making specific reference to petite traders, is what causing the problem.
In addition to that, Mr. Jallah noted that government does not need to run behind the marketers to be relocated, but government should remove all parking lots and all the out of time cars should be relocated to the Omega Market stating that when that is done, the marketers will peacefully follow.
He acknowledged that it will also be difficult to relocate the parking lots because of the proliferation of the different driver unions thereby expressing the need of bringing them under one umbrella.
“But if you even move the marketers and you leave the parking there, the marketers will still go back; so therefore, they have to bring all of them. They have to move all the parking from there or else we will only be requesting the government now because we don’t want to misbehave, to tell us to go back to where we came from” he recommended.
Mr. Jallah intimated that the past government made a mistake by allowing the marketers to go back to Red-Light in the name of going to sell for Independence Day, and they have remained there until now.
McClain Jallah indicated that he knows that other people such as store owners are disenchanted, but government had provided another area which the Liberia Marketing Association requested from former president George Manneh Weah and he yielded to their request.
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