Municipality Of Oshakati Upsets The Vendors

ALLOW me a space in your newspaper in order to express my views. My concern is about Municipality of Oshakati that has stopped vendors from selling their products in order to make a living.

Apparently the Municipality wants to transfer these people to sell their products behind MetroWholesale. Now what is worrying me is: Will these people still have customers at such a farflung place?And think about those customers who used to buy their products at the gate of Oshakati hospital. Do Municipal officials think that those customers will be able to go behind Metro Wholesale to buy something to eat?And do the officials think customers have taxi money to go there?The Municipality knows that some of the patients from Oshakati hospital or other ordinary citizens cannot afford to buy at local stores to get something to eat.Their only answer is to buy something from vendors.My other point is, some of these vendors have their own houses where they pay water and electricity for their business.Now if you remove these vendors to a hidden place where there are not enough customers,at the end of the day they will end up with their water and electricity disconnected because they cannot afford these services anymore.Now my other question to the municipality officials is: is it good for our ordinary people to be hungry while you favour tourists who will not contribute anything to these ordinary people who are suffering?Do Municipal officials think that you can dress smartly while you have an empty stomach?What if you find, especially in your town or other towns, that the crime rate has increased? I am looking forward to getting answers to these questions.I also think urbanization can be one ofthe effects because some of these vendors may leave for the big cities for job opportunity purposes.And ifwomen do not get a job they will start selling their bodies (prostitution) so that they can get money to survive and this may lead to the increase in HIV AIDS in our country.I definitely condemn this and hope the Municipality of Oshakati will find a solution to this problem.Sabina Nepolo WindhoekNow what is worrying me is: Will these people still have customers at such a farflung place?And think about those customers who used to buy their products at the gate of Oshakati hospital. Do Municipal officials think that those customers will be able to go behind Metro Wholesale to buy something to eat?And do the officials think customers have taxi money to go there?The Municipality knows that some of the patients from Oshakati hospital or other ordinary citizens cannot afford to buy at local stores to get something to eat.Their only answer is to buy something from vendors.My other point is, some of these vendors have their own houses where they pay water and electricity for their business.Now if you remove these vendors to a hidden place where there are not enough customers,at the end of the day they will end up with their water and electricity disconnected because they cannot afford these services anymore.Now my other question to the municipality officials is: is it good for our ordinary people to be hungry while you favour tourists who will not contribute anything to these ordinary people who are suffering?Do Municipal officials think that you can dress smartly while you have an empty stomach?What if you find, especially in your town or other towns, that the crime rate has increased? I am looking forward to getting answers to these questions.I also think urbanization can be one ofthe effects because some of these vendors may leave for the big cities for job opportunity purposes.And ifwomen do not get a job they will start selling their bodies (prostitution) so that they can get money to survive and this may lead to the increase in HIV AIDS in our country.I definitely condemn this and hope the Municipality of Oshakati will find a solution to this problem. Sabina Nepolo Windhoek