Arron Nyamayaro, H-Metro Reporter
VENDORS selling second hand winter clothing have flooded the market including the Central Business District, violating health measures set to curb spreading of Covid-19.
A number of vendors spotted by H-Metro in CBD saw parked vehicles without registration plates filled with winter jackets and baby wear.
In high-density suburbs, the second hand clothes are sold by the roadside and some in parked commuter omnibuses.
One of the vendors appealed to law enforcement authorities to tighten screws at Forbes and Nyamapanda border posts where she said is the point the second hand clothes are finding their way in from Mozambique.
“We aware that second hand clothes have been banned due to Covid-19 but we had already stocked these before the national lockdown,” said the vendor.
“I used to have a place at Mupedzanhamo Market so its opening is taking long and we are starving.
“Our business mainly depend on second hand clothes from Mozambique and if Covid-19 measures are to be taken seriously Forbes and Nyamapanda Border Posts must tightly be monitored.
“We are appealing to security agencies to deal with corruption at both border posts and quarantine centres where people are reported to be escaping and as well as skipping borders,” said the vendor.
H-Metro witnessed a number of people wearing and removing the second hand clothes in search of suitable ones -a move that can easily transmit the coronavirus.
One of the passersby at the selling point questioned the reason for municipal police officers manning the streets to leave the parked vehicles conducting illegal business in their sight.
– HMETRO
