By Emmanuel Moyo
Vendors plying their trade at Karonga Boma main market have given Karonga District Council a seven-day ultimatum to resolve grievances over market state threating to boycott paying market levy if the council fails to meet their demands.
According to a letter addressed to the council chairperson, Belliam Msukwa, which 247 Malawi News has seen indicates that the market committee has been wanting to present their grievances over the state of the market to the council but the later showed disinterest.
“It was our intention to engage you on matters of the state of the market but since you are not interested to see us, this serves as a seven-day notice to your office to resolve them.
Failure to resolve them, the committee will mobilise all market vendors to boycott payment of market fee from Wednesday, February 2.” Reads part of the letter.
The grievances include, floodlights that are not working due to failure of the council to purchase electricity units for floodlights, blackout over two years because the council is unable to replace a faulty fuse and failure of cleaners to ably clean the market and failure to remove waste from strategic bins.
When asked to comment on the matter, Msukwa asked for more time to see full content of the letter.
