By Joseph Tumbey

Serious environmental hazard is alarming at the government’s own “Gobachop-Red Light market” as hundreds of tons of stockpile garbage  is gradually overcoming the facility. 

When visited the facility  over the weekend,  pedestrians, business owners and their  customers  complained of  serious health hazards caused by   the air pollution  from the burning of the abandoned  garbage over a prolonged period. 

“We get sick day by day, we will not live for a long time if we continue  this  situation,  we have  no choice but to continue selling in order to survive  and support our family. We dieing, we are dying, ooh, it has to talk”, a group of traders  cried out.

63 years old Ma. Musu konneh  who has her shop close to the garbage  disclosed that  she has over the time been experiencing  respiratory infections, heart disease, and lung cancer from the burning smoke of the garbage. 

The long and short term 

exposure to air pollutants around Monrovia  have been associated with several health hazards, and stench with little or no shelter for marketers who continue to have the misconception that they won’t attract buyers because of the exposure to high levels of air pollution.