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Saturday, February 18, 2006
Market fish vendors' coop seeks CEO help
THE Zamboanga City Public Market Fish Vendors' Cooperative, led by chairman Hasir Hanapi, laments over the plight of their more than 500 members who are fish vendors at the old public market.
The fish section has since been saddled with chronic problems in the cleanliness and sanitation aspect.
The incessant and non-stop clearing of the dirty stagnant water with brooms by sweepers is a sickening sight to watch.
Hanapi said structural defects like having merely a tiny hole in the drainage makes it hard to dry up the fish section, considered a never-ending problem both for the fish vendors and the market-goers.
"When we were not yet here last year, this place was so dirty, but when we were allowed to stay here, we have been maintaining its cleanliness by untiringly sweeping the water with broom," Hanapi said in the vernacular.
He is hoping that their suggestions would be heard by the city, particularly the City Engineer's Office (CEO) to help improve the cleanliness and sanitation at the wide fish section floor area occupying two allotted buildings.
He said without their presence there to clean the place with brooms, the situation in the city's public market fish section would even be worse.
The city's collection at the fish section has reportedly improved with the help of Hanapi's group, according to one market employee.
City Administrator Antonio Orendain Jr. said the city, unlike in the past, has been making profits at the main public market under the present administration.
The city is currently waging all-out efforts to introduce improvement at the main public market, as it's embarking on a massive rehabilitation of its old structures.
City Market Superintendent Idris Abdulla last Wednesday admitted that the market is in a topsy-turvy situation, and that after the completion of all its ongoing structures, he sees no reason why market vendors will not occupy the buildings to sell their wares instead on the streets.
He appealed to the public to bear with them, as the market is still in disarray amid the city's continuous plan to improve and develop its wide five-hectare main public market area near the PPA waterfront.
(February 18, 2006 issue)
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