The Mufulira Municipal Council is planning to effect relief measures to cushion the impact of increased license fees on local traders.
The intended measures are being considered following the recent protest by the traders over increased license fees on grounds of declining business activities in the border town.
Mufulira Town Clerk, Charles Mwandila, said the local authority had limited jurisdiction and could not alter regulations passed by government hence the plans to only consider other options of providing other incentives as relief measures for high license fees.
Mr Mwandila was speaking when he addressed traders at the council today.
Mr Mwandila said the council would consider creating rebates on other avenues, especially ones controlled by the council as opposed to tempering with provision Statutory Instrument number 65 of 2008.
He, however, wondered why only traders in Mufulira out of the 72 districts protested against the fees.
A fortnight ago, Mufulira traders protested against the new trade license fees for 2009 which they said are exorbitant given the business trends obtaining in the district.
Government through the ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry adjusted the trade license fees from K90,000 to K400,000 per year effective 2009.
Chairperson for the traders, John Katati, said the protest should not be misunderstood because traders did not know how government came up with the fees.
And opposition Kantanshi Member of Parliament, Yamfwa Mukanga, who was present during the meeting hailed the traders for protesting saying it was a good gesture as it indicated that they were not happy with the peace of legislation.
Mr Mukanga, however, warned of the risk of imprisonment for traders who would not comply with provisions of the Statutory Instrument.
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Obviously the Muf council has a lot of work to do. Why wonder that only Muf traders would demonstrate when you probably are alienating yourselves from them?..You need to connect with the people.
In Bemba, they say “baaya sana.” Indeed these Bemba-Tribalists baaya sana (have gone too much – in literal translation).
To the Zambian people:
Ngoyu genteremani, HH (Here is the gentleman, HH)
Ngoyu genteremani, HH (Here is the gentleman, HH)
Ngooyu genteremani wacinicini, HH. (Here is the gentleman who is real, HH)
by Shatel-remix.
Vote for the UPND’s HH for a real ray of change and hope that all Zambians can believe and trust in.
what is in mufulira? mr town clerk, the council chambers and the council at large. why are you there in the first place. to milk or to provide pasture to have more milk. to reap or to sow so that you can reap. you cannot harvest where you did not sow. where are the welfare centers for educating the public? you turned all welfare centers into pubs. kachasu is legal. roads are damaged. no services and clean facilities. people are dying due to lack of council hygiene programme. and your population is weaying out and the rest are poor, hungry and striving to survive. due to small thinking you resort to increase money where there is no money. advise think about how to put money in people’s pocket
THE MUFULIRA COUNCIL IS BEING RUN BY OLD AND OUT DATED MINDS….THE COUNCIL OFFICIALS ARE CROOKS….ASK MR MWANDILA T.C HOW MUCH THEY SPENT ON THAT FUN ROUNDABOUT ….. OVER K100,OOO,OOO THATS DAY LIGHT ROBBERY WHERE IS THE ANTI CORRUPTION….
VIVA SATA VIVA SATA
LATEST PULL
…………..RB…… SATA….. HH
Northern …..35%….. 60%…… 5%
Luapula ……40%….. 50%…… 10%
Eastern ……60%….. 15%……. 15%
Central ……39%….. 10%…… 51%
Lusaka …….38%….. 39%…… 23%
Copperbelt …32%….. 40%…… 28%
North-western .20%….. 8%…… 72%
southern …….8% …..3% ……85%
western …….11% …..2% ……80%
zambia ……..28%…. 24%…… 39%
# 5 correct ba Kamba HH for Presido.
# 5 – where are those lates polls from ?
#5 ulishilu ifyabupuba, you surely think HH will be one day presdo of Zed? Teti ma dear!!
Pankolokoooooooo!!!
you are also a fool chi #8 YOU think the watch is still working.
ni pabwatoooooooooviva sata.
Yu # 5, do you think Sugar Daddy will ever rule Zambia with such revelations? Things are unfolding just check Times of Zambia, October 1991 when he tried to corrupt an innocent MMD cadre so cud join UNIP.
The blanket increase in license fees is not workable. We may have a lot of unlicensed kantemba traders in the whole of Mufulira, of course even in other towns. The fees amounts to be paid in fees are in fact the capital that the kantemba owners invest to start up their businesses. Let there be a clause for each municipality to determine the fees to be paid for different categories of traders. However, some council officials, who include councillors, are to blame for the squalor in the towns. They are busy pretending to be collecting revenue and also pretending to be providing services while the communities are also pretending to be paying for the services, but both await Govt. for grants.