The Cross River State House of Assembly has pass a bill legalising hawking, as if hawking was illegal before.

Section 31 of the law states that hawking zones and centers
will be created for hawkers.
This doesn’t make any sense to me. The sole purpose of
hawking is for the hawker to take his wares to where the
potential buyer is.
Creating hawking centers is like creating markets where the
hawkers will stay and wait for buyers to come to them.
That’s not regulating hawking, it’s rather, technically,
banning hawking.
In a wild excitement to legalise hawking (whatever that
means), the Cross River State Government has banned and
criminalized it.
Section 31 (3) makes it an offence punishable with
imprisonment if anyone hawks outside the designated areas
or centers.
This is really dangerous. This will make every hawker on
the street of Cross River State a potential ex-convict just
because he is hawking, just because she is hustling to
survive. The pertinent question begging for answer here is; Is this not an indirect way of criminalising hustling?

Davidatita:
The Cross River State House of Assembly has pass a bill legalising hawking, as if hawking was illegal before.

Section 31 of the law states that hawking zones and centers
will be created for hawkers.
This doesn’t make any sense to me. The sole purpose of
hawking is for the hawker to take his wares to where the
potential buyer is.
Creating hawking centers is like creating markets where the
hawkers will stay and wait for buyers to come to them.
That’s not regulating hawking, it’s rather, technically,
banning hawking.
In a wild excitement to legalise hawking (whatever that
means), the Cross River State Government has banned and
criminalized it.
Section 31 (3) makes it an offence punishable with
imprisonment if anyone hawks outside the designated areas
or centers.
This is really dangerous. This will make every hawker on
the street of Cross River State a potential ex-convict just
because he is hawking, just because she is hustling to
survive. The pertinent question begging for answer here is; Is this not an indirect way of criminalising hustling?

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