The municipal government came to the rescue of dozens of market vendors who were allegedly displaced when the Buguias local government started to award the new market stalls in the town’s market building last week.
Mayor Frenzel Ayong offered to the displaced market vendors the temporary use of the vacant space within the local government’s property near Abatan, Buguias for their continuous business activities that will ensure their being able to derive the necessary income to sustain the living condition of their families.
“We were able to observe a significant improvement in the economic activities in the area where our municipal building is located that is why we hope that we will be able to gain from allowing the portion of the parking area to be temporarily used by the displaced vendors for their business activities,” Mayor Ayong stressed.
The local chief executive added that the local government in close coordination with the provincial government under the leadership of Gov. Melchor D. Diclas will be pooling their resources to improve the state of the area so that the vendors and their clients will have the necessary convenience in transacting their businesses in the area.
Earlier, Ayong provided the temporary make shift tents that will be temporarily used by the displaced vendors for their business activities while awaiting for the improvement of the area for them to be able to make permanent their stay in the area owned by the local government.
According to him, most of the displaced vendors from Buguias are natives of Mankayan, Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, Bauko, Mountain Province and other neighboring provinces in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions who simply wanted to vend to earn income that will provide decent living for their families.
He claimed that with the presence of the vendors in a portion of the municipal government’s property near Abatan, Buguias, the economic activities in the said area will flourish for the benefit of those doing business activities in the area.
Further, the municipal mayor pointed out that the local government stands to benefit from the presence of the vendors in the said property because they will be obliged to secure their business permit and pay their business taxes to Mankayan.
He urged the vendors to cooperate with the local government in the enforcement of the necessary rules and regulations governing their operations so that their always be cleanliness and orderliness in their vending area for them to be able to attract more clients who will patronize the goods that they will be selling.
Mankayan owns a building that was erected within its property near Abatan that serves as the local government’s satellite office among other related enterprises that forms part of the town’s income-generating initiatives of the municipality.
The municipality is one of the five first-class municipalities in the province that derives most of its income for the continuous operation of large-scale mining companies with vegetable farming as the secondary source of income of the residents, especially those living in the upland barangays.
By HENT
