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Editorial

Juba County authority must contemplate on its intentions to discard roadside vendors, as this is what puts food on the dealers’ tables.

Acknowledging the dangers, both, in public health and accidents to traders and motorists, we cannot underestimate the vital sustainability, small-scale businesses provide to families.

Juba City Authority and roadside vendors must strike a chord to suit both the plight and legitimacy to operate and maintain an equilibrium.

These vendors are seeking visibility to display their goods and as such, they see relocation to specific spots away from the road, as hiding from clients.

City Authority should therefore sensitize these vendors on merits and demerits of relocation, which on one hand, is for their safety and other road users. A compromise must be reached, to ease placement of small-scale businesses on the road.

Whereas a total removal of the vendors is disastrous, since beneath every stall, there is a burning desire to grow the business as well as sustain a family.

Some of these vendors cannot afford to rent a place for their business but are compelled to venture for survival.

However, it would be cunning to derail a transparent survival mechanism of a citizen in an era where salaries are non-existent for over a dozen months.

The lure of money or taxes must not blur the humanity in each of us while on duty and serving the people.

 

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