There is a virtually unshakable consensus amongst residents in the capital that the state of our municipal markets is an acute embarrassment to our capital and that officialdom, at the levels of the municipality, central government and the private sector evince no real sense of concern over this state of affairs. What obtains is a sense of indifference to the fact that our marketplaces are run-down, poorly maintained – for the most part – and vermin-infested as if that is how markets are supposed to. In essence, neither the high-sounding rhetoric that commonly emanates from these sources about environmental awareness nor the ever present danger that markets have become incubators for some serious malady has altered the prevailing indifference to the situation.
These are the same spaces that provide a livelihood for hundreds of traders and their families and,
