By Alfred Kollie Email: alfredkolliejr92@gmail.com
A local vegetable vendor is appealing to President George M. Weah to speed up the rehabilitation of roads connecting various counties to enable them get local vegetables on the Liberian market.
Madam Marie Walker said the rehabilitation of such roads will help rural dwellers have access to markets and produce more local foods on the market.
Madam Walker, who has spent 16 years selling vegetable in front of the GreenLand Supermarket in Sinkor, said they are finding it difficult getting local vegetables on the market due to bad roads, something she said is affecting business activities in the country.
In an interview with www.newspublictrust.com in Monrovia, Madam Marie Walker said that local commodities are very expensive on the Liberian Market as a result of the bad road condition and the increase in transportation fares.
‘’Business is hard everything’s expensive because no good road and the transportation has also increase, so everything really hard for us,’’ Madam Walker explained.
The local vegetable vendor is engaged in the sale of Pineapple, Banana, Water Miller, Oranges, butterball, among other produce for survival.
According to her, pan of Pineapple is sold for three thousand five hundred Liberian dollars ($3,500), while a pan of paw-paw is sold for LD$3, 000)..
‘’My goods spoil this time because no buying and no place for me to keep my goods, at the end of the day I loose and will not get my money out,’’ the local fruits and vegetable seller explained.
Madam Walker noted that over the past years, she used to handle little over $7, 000 to $ 8,000 Liberian dollars, unlike today when she can handles little over $100 to 1,200 Liberian dollar a day.
‘’I don’t really know what is going on the county everything just hard on us but I want for President George Weah to really see about what happening in the country, that all I want to tell him,’’ Madam Walker told www.newspublictrust.com.
She is however appealing to the International Community to intervene and rehabilitate major roads connecting capitals of the various counties to enable smooth operation of Business activities across the country.