Gordon needs better plan
By BERRY DINGHAN
GORDON Police Station commander Chief Insp Mark Mosinakave says he does not have enough manpower and resources to counter illegal vegetable vending outside the new market facility.
Chief Insp Mosinakave said combating illegal vegetable vending at the Gordon market area was the responsibility of the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) as the city and market manager.
He said NCDC needed to come up with an effective plan to permanently address such illegal trading as it affected many registered table vendors inside the new market facility which he was aware of and had tried to address but without success.
Chief Insp Mosinakave said he was keeping his officers visible at the market and bus stop and at shops to dissuade illegal vending and other activities such as pickpocketing, bag snatching, drunk and unruly behaviour in the area.
He said Gordon Police Station was looking after biggest zones in the nation’s capital including, Gordon (1-5), Erima, foreign embassies, Wildlife, 8-Mile, ATS, 9-Mile, 11-Mile to 14-Mile with limited manpower and resources and it was impossible to provide regular patrols of the market and surrounding areas.
Registered sweet potato vendor Desmond Terry said that illegal vending activities outside the market was stopping customers from coming to the market resulting in a loss of potential customers.
Terry said NCDC needed to seriously look at the illegal activity as registered vendors would be forced to sell their goods outside the market just to compete.
He said they wanted police and the NCDC to work together to effectively remove illegal vendors with tougher measures such as arresting and charging them and confiscating their items.
Attempts to get comments from NCDC yesterday were unsuccessful.
4 comments
Why allowing people to register to sell things inside the new market. is it a private market or for the public where anyone can sell their products. those vendors outside the market are also residents of Moresby Northeast who survive on vending. the new market should be open to the public where anyone can sell their goods rather than registering a few people who are particularly from one region. those vendors inside the market are dominated by Western Highlands while Papuans and others are competing outside as illegal vendors.
I don’t see the big fuss about registering, we are in the modern era. You want to progress in everything or in life in general we have to change. When you want to open a bank account, you sort of like register, when you want your kids to go to school- you register. Yes some are illiterate but sure there are other ways to accommodate that, allowing our benders to sell.
But what is the real reason for venders not selling there, it is because fees are too high for space allocation? NCDC explain this issue and sort it out so our good people can go and sell and make their living then the Gordon’s area will be clean again and not an eyesore.
All markets must be free – NO DISCRIMINATION
Use the tax money to pay for maintenance of market (facility and security). The tax money belongs to the people – use it to improve people’s lives – it is not your money GOVERNMENT.
By employing more police and government workers to stop people from self employment is criminal – and this kind of ideas and thoughts comes from primitive people. Why make people unemployed? You are not employing them – they are employing themselves. Making people unemployed is beyond STUPID. We Papua New Guineans are some of the dumbest people on earth.
Trying to stop people who are starving from making an income to stay alive is just wrong. Where will this people get money/food to survive. Are you buying them rice and tin fish and paying their kids school fees. Use you head PNG.
Gordon needs better plan – it certainly does….it certainly does. MARKET SHOULD BE FREE TO THE PUBLIC AND THE COST OF RUNNING THE MARKET SHOULD BE COVERED BY GOVERNMENT (PEOPLE’S TAX MONEY)
Governor Parkop and his team so called NCDC collect a lot of money yearly from the companies those operate in NCD and also from the people who work and live in NCD through taxes. City Hall makes millions of kina in a year which could be enough to look after the public utilities like markets, sport fields ect in and around NCD by providing cleaners, securities and put them on NCDC pay role.
No good reason charging big fees on poor vendors at Gordons markets while few contractors benefited a lot from this tax payers money by putting flower pots along the drive ways which would not even benefit our struggling poor vendors at Gordons Market and general public as well.
Gordons market must free for every vendor to sell their produces to meet their endings
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