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Front Page AMC launches major clean-up campaign
by Nyamanoko Bwire The Arusha Municipal Council is currently conducting a special campaign to clean the town of hawkers and petty businesses blocking walkways, roads, verandas and open spaces in the municipality. Petty businesses set to be cleared include the myriad of timber outlets, food peddlers, garages, vending containers and other unofficial ventures that have been set up in areas earmarked as open spaces. Also to fall under the clean up operation are all trading structures and kiosks that have been built haphazardly within the Central Market and around the Kilombero Market. The campaign, according to Dr. Job Laizer, the Municipality officer in charge of health, will also bring to an end sales of fruits on handcarts (mikokoteni), veranda-based tailors and merchandise goods being displayed outside shops and stores. The council has also banned delivery trucks from parking at the Central Market entrance including pick-up vehicles for hire which block the market making shopping a great hassle. "Market wares, especially farm produce have already been allocated a special delivery dock at the Kilombero Market in Levolosi and this is where all trucks should be!" said Dr. Laizer. As for garages, the Municipal Council has allocated a plot in Suye area near Masai Camp, east of the municipality where all small garages in town should be shifted to. Second hand clothes (mitumba) dealers have been instructed to take their businesses to the Nane Nane grounds in Njiro where the council in conjunction with ground owners (TASO) have set aside a special area for them. Fruit dealers have been directed to stop hawking them around on baskets or carts and instead construct special racks, like those being used by fruit dealers at Serengeti road junction, to display their merchandise. Even petty goods hawkers (popularly known as machingas or marching guys ) have been ordered to find permanent operating areas and shops where people can buy their wares.
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