Hawkers have taken over major streets of the coal city, defiled all efforts by Enugu state government to sanitize the streets and contain them into organized markets in the state capital.
Despite calls from the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, in 2019 to clear the streets of containers and wheel barrow shops, the year 2020 witnessed astronomical rise in street trading with little or no effort made by the ECTDA to clear them due to the lamentations witnessed last year when the agency combated the nuisances.
The ECTDA had in December last year advertised public notices, warning that it will descend aggressively on street traders in 2020 if they did not clear themselves from the streets but with the covid-19 pandemic, the agency relaxed actions and the hawkers continued the illegal street trading.
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In recent times, Enugu, the Coal City, has changed from what it used to be - sleepy, easy-going, no hustle and bustle, free of traffic congestion. Before 8.00 o clock in the evening all the roads were deserted and everybody would be indoors. There was no night life, no night crawlers, the fun-seeking guys who would usually turn their nights into day.
In those days, you virtually would meet every of your engagement on time, since there would be nothing delaying you on the road, except the menacing presence of men and women of Nigeria Police Force who would mount several check-points, asking you to roger them.
next year. coal strips residents are worried, what started as coal camp to defeat the railroad has become high-knit community, everyone here is somehow connect today coal. they don t want to leave. these people go to work every day, if it s 20 or 30 below, they are there and you will have power, you re going to have heat. the city of colstrip with more worse news, that would mean the end of coal generation here, the end of all coal mining and likely the end of town that s been powering the northwest for the last century ncolstrip, montana, dan springer, fox news
we think about, the racial strife you forget all that i want to live, you want to live. i don t care if you re black or you re white. outside you can do what you wanted to. when you go under that ground, hey, you got to be together and watch out for each other because that s the only way you can get in there and get out. big u.s. steel, they had the biggest mine in the nation. what years was that? 20s and 30s and 40s. it was a place to make a living but it wasn t no money. it was script. script is a corporate currency only used at a coal camp. a practice that was deemed illegal in 1938. like if the boss paid you in arcade tokens and you lived in the arcade. you had to spend it at the store. you couldn t take your money out of this area. really? it wasn t slavery but it wasn t much better. they pay you but you can only use that money on the plantation. you only use the money right here. this used to be a school.
we just got to taking care of each other. a lot of racial differences we think about, the racial strife you forget all that i want to live, you want to live. i don t care if you re black or you re white. outside you can do what you wanted to. when you go under that ground, hey, you got to be together and watch out for each other because that s the only way you can get in there and get out. big u.s. steel, they had the biggest mine in the nation. what years was that? 20s and 30s and 40s. it was a place to make a living but it wasn t no money. it was script. script is a corporate currency only used at a coal camp. it was deemed illegal. like if the boss paid you in arcade tokens and you lived in the arcade. you had to spend it at the store. you couldn t take your money out of this area. really? it wasn t slavery but it wasn t much better.