Group calls for street vendors’ recognition

The Socioeconomic and Environment Advocacy Centre (SEAC) has called for the recognition of vendors as lawful residents of cities, who are legally entitled to organizing livelihoods and making contributions to the cities’ gross domestic products.

The centre arrived at the position at a roundtable they organised recently, where the participants after listening to a resource person, Dr. Onyanta Adama, called for the recognition of street economic work and the rights of street economic workers in cities.

The Executive Director of the centre, Prof. Mohammed Bello Yunusa, in a statement urged governments to put an end to street workers harassment in Abuja and other cities.

He tasked the urban management agencies to strategise new ways to accommodate the vendors in the cities through space provision, adding that the agencies needed to provide support infrastructure for the vendors and manage informalities to make the cities more inclusive.

Daily Trust, Thursday 21, March.

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