Sat, 24 Feb 2018 09:09:23 +0000 THE return to normalcy in trade patterns and the reinforcement of the law pertaining to street vending is an accolade worth sustaining in the country’s quest to achieve absolute cleanliness and public order. Disorder, menacing street vending, indiscriminate solid waste dumping and peddling have fizzled out with an incredible silence, what with the amendment of the Statutory Instrument (SI) 54 of 1992 that strengthens the law against street vending and public nuisances. Initially, there was resistance in form of stage-managed street protests that fortunately received nation-wide disapproval. Some pockets of defiant traders are sneaking into shop corridors and streets after 17:00 hours and are covertly plying their wares. Mostly, vegetable traders are leaving market stands to position themselves in strategic places as people are knocking off. In fact, traders are very much aware that street vending has long been outlawed which is why some of them are being hauled […]
