By Caleb Jacob
The Kano State government has insisted that it will not rescind its decision over the sacking of traders using wheelbarrows to sell their commodities at the Abubakar Rimi Market in Sabon Gari, Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
Grassroots Parrot reports that the wheelbarrow pushers popularly known as Yan Dako, who were forcefully chased out of the market this week, staged a peaceful protest to the State Government House on Wednesday.
The protesters under the aegis of Barrow Group Organisation alleged that the market management had barred them from operating for over two months, over alleged undue congestion in the market.
The Secretary for the group, Abdullahi Nasiru Dauda told our correspondent that they were at the Government House to seek Governor Abba Kabiru Yusuf’s intervention after exhausting all measures to resolve the matter without any headway.
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The group, who claimed to have been operating in the market for over 20-years, shifted the blame of the market decongestion to some shop owners in the market who are fond of displaying their goods on the walk way.
But when contacted on Thursday, the Hon. Musbahu Abdullahi, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abba Kabiru Yusuf on Abubakar Rimi Market, insisted that the management of the market would not reconsider the Barrow Traders despite their protest.
Hon. Musbahu Abdullahi, who spoke through Aminu Salisu, the Secretary of the Market’s Congestion Committee, attributed the forceful evacuation of the wheelbarrow traders to their failure to comply with several notices in the last two months.
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Abdullahi argued that the congestion was worsening issues of theft in the market. He, however, clarified that the traders were not prohibited from selling in the market but they must not use wheelbarrows so as to maintain orderliness.
He therefore suggested that the affected traders should either sell by hand or seek space beside shops within the market premises.