Police in full riot gear in Kabompo today fought running battles with Musamba illegal bus station vendors, tickets and cigarette sellers.
The commotion started from about 09:00 hours to 13:00 hours after Kabompo District Council Management ordered the closure of the illegal bus station at Musamba.
In protest to the closure of the illegal bus station, the tickets, cigarette sellers and other vendors blocked the main Solwezi-Zambezi road with huge logs of timber and burning vehicle tires.
Police moved in with tear gas canisters to the riotous protesters who responded with retaliated with stones and sticks.
Business operations at Musamba shopping centre and market were forced to close by police and remained closed by press time while buses from Solwezi and Zambezi were being directed by police to the newly opened modern bus station located in central Kabompo Township.
When contacted Kabompo District Council secretary, Francis Nkhoma declined to comments but referred all queries to his superiors, the District Council Chairperson, Shadrick Sambangu whose mobile phone was unreachable.
Kabompo District Commissioner, Dennis Kanyakula could not be reached as he was out of town while efforts to contact Kabompo District Police Officer-In- Charge proved futile as he was busy leading his officers in calming the situation.
ZANIS
When something is not right it is not right. PaZed that is reason why when you start get oiled by a married man, you take it be normal and even hate wife’s husband.
Move-out from illegal station.
I sense alot of tension in the country..we are sitting on a time bomb..
What time bomb. Don’t promote stupidity. They should just leave and operate from recognised places. The police are doing that to safe guard the same people
Zambia has gone for dogs. A lot of unreasonable happening in this country
ifi tutemenwe ati apaliponse kutantika, bupuba. thats why its taking us time to clean some areas when we host something like UNWATO, COASAFA and other tonaments. lets keep on cleanibg our country. finamaya nafyo efyatemwa ati apapene epo ndesangilamo akakulisha abana, some of us are not interested in ur dirty children but interested in cleaness.lets them die and leave us clean.