Taiz Municipality confiscates goods of street sellers [Archives:2003/695/Local News]

Administration of public works and housing office and its branches in Taiz have recently carried out repeated campaigns against sellers who display their goods on streets, preventing them from gaining their living and without care for their difficult living conditions and unemployment spread among the citizens.
It has been noted that the campaigns employed a large number of employees and soldiers who joined efforts to confiscate goods of those sellers.
All those measures had been taken whereas he municipality did not take any measures to propose and carry out solutions or alternatives for those situations. Some of those sellers told Yemen Times that they hoped the government officials in the city of Taiz and the GPC members to implement a true policy proving claims of GPC members in the city in that they are in support of the poor masses of the people and the working class. But, they added, that such promises have not been realized and that they would in future not vote for those leaderships of the GPC in parliamentary or local councils elections.
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