BY: NASIRU MUHAMMAD WAZIRI, KANO
Traders pushing wheelbarrows at Sabon Gari market in Kano metropolis have taken to the streets to protest against their expulsion from the market.
The protesters accused the managing director of the Market Abdul Bashir Hussain of forcing them out of the market, the development which threatened their life.
The leader of the protesters who doubles as secretary of the Borrow Group Organization Sanusi Sale Abdallah told GLOBAL CORRESPONDENT Nasiru Muhammad Waziri that despite surrendering themselves to the management of the market for necessary changes, the Sabon Gari Market management insisted on their expulsion.
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“Immediately after he was sworn in he told us that he didn’t want us at the market, we told him we would adjust to new changes and he still insists we must leave,” Sanusi said.
“We are indigent of Kano, we are staunch loyalists to Governor Abba Kabiru Yusuf, why is this MD doing this to us, we want him out,” they added.
Meanwhile, the GLOBAL TRACKER correspondent reached out to the managing director of the Market Alhaji Abdul Bashir Hussain who confirmed their expulsion from the market.
According to him, their activities tend to block roads in the market which course congestion between men and women in the market and is against the teaching of Islam.
He said the management had proposed to them take their wheelbarrow out of the market and they insisted on using them for development which triggered their expulsion.
The managing director added that the management still has in their proposal of resettling them to continue their business.