Juba City Council (JCC) says it is launching a campaign to cast vendors off the streets of the South Sudanese capital where they are seen as an eyesore, APA can report on Monday.
Mayor Christopher Serafino Wani said to this effect security forces have been deployed in and around the Konyokony and Custom markets to keep the streets from bustling with street hawkers who are blamed for traffic mishaps along the city’s major highways linked to these shopping districts.
Mayor Wani denied that the two markets were being shut down but emphasised that what was happening at the two main commercial hubs in Juba ”was simply an organisation of vendors and a ban on street vending, as most of them were displaying their goods in the streets, causing traffic accidents”.
He said although it was undeniable that vending has become a natural reaction to the difficulty of eking a living amid these torrid economic times, reorganising the business districts are pivotal to their security to ensure that both buyers and sellers are safe.
He advised hawkers to make use of the spaces allocated to them in the Konyokonyo and Custom markets and refrain from infractions that could have consequences to the public.
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