By RODRICK DESURI
Auki
Cloth vendors in Auki, Malaita Province, are pushing for space as they wait for the establishment of their new market area.
The vendors are frustrated and are advocating for space in Auki to sell second-hand clothes after they were forced to leave the NPF area earlier this year.
One of the vendors, Tafilia Lui said they are struggling as they are really trying their best to earn money to support their families.
She said that it shows the Malaita Provincial Government is turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to their struggles.
“Now we don’t think that our provincial government is seeing our struggles. But this is the only way that we can earn money to support our families and children’s tuition fees.
“The government is turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to us,” she said.
Lui also questioned why the provincial government has not acted on their agreed agreement from last year.
“We have agreed and contributed more than 30 thousand dollars to the government in the hope that the money will kick-start the work on the new market area for us, but to date, the construction work on the new area has been stopped since last year,” she said.
Meanwhile, she said that if the government is focusing on other matters, an assurance should be given to them.
The vendors are now looking for any space in the Auki town area to kick-start their small business operations.
Island Sun reached out to the office of the Malaita Provincial Government last night, but there was no response.
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