Street trading is still not being prohibited in certain areas in Jui including the central business area of  Freetown.

Although local government officers, metropolitan police, would be seen doing rounds on most streets telling people to stop the street selling, traders would always take officers’ advice with a pinch of salt – they wouldn’t take the advice but continue their normal selling days in – days- out.

The traders at Jui are seen every day laying out  their market goods in front of the pedestrian areas, an attitude that shows a complete disregard for law and order.

On the other hand, it is they the metropolitan police that seem not to be doing their work by getting off traders on the streets, most especially at some prohibited areas where selling should not be conducted at all.

Jui Junction is a crowded place that was announced few years back by government authorities to be a prohibited place for selling, but business still flourishes here at the expense of the pedestrians who may always find it difficult to freely walk past above the road sidewalks.

A yellow sign board was erected there that disallows people from selling their market goods at the sidewalk area, and the sign board warning was clearly written on it for all to see so that they could stop the trading there just like other civilized countries like Guinea Conakry would do. The Guineans have special markets for all types of goods and businesses, we are told by Sierra Leonean traders going there.

This place, at Jui, like the Sani Abacha Street in Freetown, traders here just don’t abandon street trading despite all attempts by the government to get discourage them from habitually doing their unlawful streets selling.

Their businesses are on display there.

A passenger, for example, who sees the signboard made his comments about this situation: “they are simply those Sierra Leoneans who would never obey any law set.”