The Cross River Government has banned street trading around the Eight-Miles area of Calabar metropolis and urged traders illegally occupying pedestrian walkways to vacate.
The Environment Commissioner, Mr Bassey Mensah, who made the statement during an inspection tour of the area on Friday, urged the traders to relocate their businesses to designated markets.
The commissioner embarked on the tour accompanied by the Chairman, Calabar Municipality, Mr James Anam, and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Toll Collection, Mr Bassey Edet.
Mensah said that it was wrong to allocate public roads and walkways to traders with the aim of collecting illegal levies.
He told the traders that it was safer and more economically viable to operate within the designated market.
