He says the practice of buying goods and reselling them will no longer work in this day and age as visitors desire more authentic products. This is in response to craft vendors complaining that visitors no longer patronise in the way they used to.

He is also urging vendors to avoid vending at-will and haphazardly across the City as the harsh penalties meted out affect all vendors.

“We cannot support building small little huts around the city and give people to vend and it is not properly regulated. It's not standard. They don't have a lavatory facility and [other] things. And you cannot keep doing the same thing over again and think you'll get a different result. So we need not to be in the area of just promoting vending, vending, vending,” he bemoaned.

Isaac is also calling on the government to create more means of employment to lessen the number of incoming vendors. Isaac says the influx of vendors is difficult to sustain, resulting in overcrowding and poor sales. This, he says, adds to the frustration being expressed by vendors daily.

“We have some people here, maybe some of our leaders are intellectually poor in terms of the situation of job creation. We need to create more jobs in the country so that we can prevent that whole influx of people crowding this area they call vending,” Isaac said.

He says while some vendors may like the craft, others vend simply to make ends meet.

“Some people are people who naturally love vending, they're into vending, they've been sustaining themselves with it. Some people are in it because there is nothing else to do. So the whole question of creating employment is something we need to do.”

Many vendors have expressed their anxieties in this new age, which requires adaptation to technology, value-added goods and services, and entering the formal business sector.