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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.
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