By-Aruna Rashed Toma Bangura

The Local Unit Commander of the Eastern Police Division Chief Superintendent of Police Nourah Adama N’gobeh has informed this medium that  she will continue to go hard on traders along the Sani Abacha street. According to her they have done a lot towards ending street trading along the Sani Abacha street (PZ).

“We have done a lot since August 12^th when we started removing traders off the Sani Abacha Street,” she said.

Chief Superintendent Nourah Adama N’gobeh stated that they are going after the street vendors by seizing their wares and keeping them for three or more days, adding that some of the traders most times left their goods with the police and buy another set of wares to do business.

She disclosed that further preparation is on the way to remove these traders off the street.

She affirmed that some traders are very stubborn to quit selling off the street as some of the traders have been selling along the Sani Abacha Street for more than 20 years and therefore finding it very difficult to remove them off the street trading.

According to her the shop owners along the Sani Abacha Street are the problem because they are giving goods to these street traders to sell for profit, adding that she has gone shop to shop warning all shop owners to refrain from such heinous activity.

“They give goods to these vendors to sell and retain the profit,” she told this medium.

LUC N’gobeh asserted that the Abacha street vendors are not afraid of police, adding that government must try to put measures in place to curtail street trading.

She stated that based on her discretion she sometimes do not release their goods after being seized by the police.

She said these street vendors will cry to her that they are single parents doing Micro-credit business as they are fending for their children’s living and other needs as they will continue to wallow in poverty if only they are not engage in petty trading.

She informed this medium that at one time a pregnant woman attacked and gripped her for her goods that she seized thereby preventing the pregnant woman from other dangers.

She registered her frustration being the Local Unit Commander of the Eastern Police describing it as the worst and most difficult station with the Clock tower, main road leading to the outskirt of the Capital city and a jam packed traffic including humans which she said to police them properly is not an easy task.