By: Problyn John Alpha
Bo City Council under the leadership of the newly elected mayor His Worship Kobba Musa has embarked on a month exercise of addressing the perineal problem of street trading around the center Business District (CBD) of the municipality of Bo.
The Mayor told our correspondent that the ongoing exercise is the realization of one of his campaign promises made to not only reduce street trading but to totally and entirely abolish it especially in the Central Business District (CBD) of the municipality of Bo.
He further noted that the exercise of addressing street trading is also geared toward answering to the clarion call of some stakeholders in Bo to decongest the CBD area in order to enjoy free flow of vehicular traffic, noting he being the people’s mayor has no option of giving deaf ears to such clarion calls. The political head of the Bo city Council intimated this medium that Bo city being the second city in the country should been matching with other cities across the world that does not accept the act of street trading.
Mayor Musa, however, debunked allegations making rounds in the municipality that the ongoing exercise is been remote controlled by certain shop owners in the city so that they can have more sales if the hawkers moved off the streets especially those that transact business in front of their shops as he put it “l am a man of my words nothing will stop the abolishment of street trading under my watch.”
Talking about the sustainability aspect of the said exercise His Worship Mayor Kobba Musa pointed out that the exercise was going to last for at least one month owing to the collaboration of certain key stakeholders in the district as plans are underway to ensure that street trading becomes the thing of the past in the municipality of Bo.
“Available market structures in the city of Bo are virtually emptied and are becoming white elephants because trading takes pleasure in selling in the street,” Mayor Musa lamented.
Meanwhile, as part of his lineup activities the Mayor said the monthly general cleaning of every last Saturday has been revamped including the CKC cemetery, he added that the council have also sent vehicles at the different available and ideal parks in Bo instead of using the streets as parking lots.
According to Mayor Kobba Musa, the council is maintaining financial procedures to the fullest in order to sanitize his administrative functions that are very key to revenue generation and mobilization exercises of the council, “without revenue the Council will be of no use” he said.
To give a face-lift to the Municipality the Mayor disclosed plans that the council is partnering with a solar company to maintenance all the solar panels in some principal streets in Bo that had been damaged by unfriendly weather whilst some may have been carted away by unknown thieves. He concluded that the mental picture of the city of Bo for the next five years is that Bo city will be smartly beautify and well digitalized; this according to him is in line with the council’s eight pillars of how the city of Bo is to be developed.
