
The Office of the Union of Democratic Federation of Labor has criticized the management of the wholesale market for vegetables and fruits in Casablanca, accusing it of being behind financial and administrative corruption with this facility.
In a statement reached by the electronic newspaper Hespress, the aforementioned union called for the opening of an urgent investigation, the taking of radical reform measures and the departure of the market manager.
According to the same document, the union office of traders, workers and professionals of the wholesale market for vegetables and fruits in Casablanca also demanded that all those involved be held accountable, led by collective advisers, in exchange for exploiting the public facility and turning it into an unlawful profit source.
The Syndicate accused the market management of collecting money in illegal ways from traders without legal basis, imposing unjustified fees on commercial operations, and exploiting some public facilities for personal purposes and converting them into special projects that generate illegal profits, instead of directing them to serve the public good.
The same authority also charged accusations such as imposing illegal royalties on merchants, in addition to the misuse of the areas allocated for sale and parking of cars.
The union demanded that the competent authorities intervene to open a comprehensive investigation, take immediate measures to reform the market, and ensure the transparency of management and protect the rights of professionals.
And it registered that the matter requires an investigation to reveal all the abuses, while emphasizing the continued struggle until the achievement of these demands and saving the market from the state of deterioration in which it lives.
For its part, the wholesale market for vegetables and fruits denied these accusations altogether and in detail, refusing to attack them and launch false accusations just for the application of the law.
The director of the wholesale market for vegetables and fruits, in a statement to the electronic newspaper Hespress, pointed out that the traders inside the market are working normally, and there is no imbalance or mismanagement as it was talked about.
The market manager stressed that the trucks enter this facility normally, and there is an involvement in order to ensure food security citizens, recording that “the market economy must remain far from politics and tensions,” stressing that the protest remains a legitimate right for any citizen.