NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – National Assembly Majority leader and Garissa township MP Aden Duale has strongly opposed Garissa governor Ali Korane’s proposal to relocate the Orahey market to a new site.
Duale has accused the county of ill motives in the new scheme to move the open air market saying it is a ploy to evict traders
“You know somebody can tell you that he constructs a market for you but that can be a plan intended to evict people and bring others,” he stated.
“I am the one who constructed the tarmac road in Orahey market and I said people will use this road to sell vegetable in the morning and at night it will be used by vehicles.”
Last August, Garissa county government announced that it will embark on demolishing the sprawling Orahey market and relocate the traders to a near by county staff houses that will be conversed to stall.
Area governor Ali Korane while addressing the traders on Wednesday morning after touring the market and the proposed new site said time has come for traders to be relocated to a new saying that move was for their own safety.
He, however, said that the sensitive exercise will be done in a procedural manner where the traders themselves will be asked on which best way to go about carrying out the exercise.
“I want to assure the traders that we shall consult them in identifying viable and consult them in identifying viable and convenient option.in the meantime I have instructed the relevant departments to compile a list of all traders doing business in the open air market,” Korane said.
We want traders to form a committee so that we involve them before removing them from Orahey, many traders have been hit by speeding vehicles because the market is so congested. we are appealing for your cooperation in this noble exercise,”Korane told the traders.
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