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Lusaka liquor traders warned

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Lusaka Province Liquor Licensing Board Chairperson, Elijah Chisanga, has warned bar and lodge owners dealing in liquor without liquor trading licenses that they risk having their businesses closed.

Mr. Chisanga who is also Lusaka Province Permanent Secretary advised liquor traders not to allow the under aged to enter bars or buy alcohol.

He issued the warning in Luangwa yesterday when he addressed bar and lodge owners after inspecting various bars and lodges in Luangwa and the lower Zambezi.

He expressed disappointment that most bars and lodges dealing in liquor in Lusaka Province were doing so without trading licenses.

Mr. Chisanga who was accompanied by the Lusaka Province liquor Board Members further urged all the Liquor traders in the area to quickly legalize their businesses within 30 days or face closure of their premises.

He said that those allowing under aged children in bars were contributing to juvenile delinquency, which he described as a hindrance to national development.

Speaking at the same occasion, a liquor trader, Bernard Namula commended the liquor licensing board for visiting the district.

Mr. Namula said the current scenario was sad, because many people were selling beer in any place of their choice without applying for liquor licenses.

He said illegal bars have mushroomed in the district and that this has led to the lowering of moral standards among the youths in the nation.

The Lusaka Province Liquor Licensing Board was in Luangwa District to inspect lodges and bars in order to discourage the illegal trading of beer.

ENDS/JS/PK/ZANIS.

33 COMMENTS

  1. You can’t truly enjoy a good beer if it isn’t in the right glass, or if you can’t open the bottle but whether the trade got license or not does not make a difference. Leave those traders alone, i need a beer because i need to get fu*ked up.

  2. This is the best news to have come to Zambia in years; Football sucks because of our alcohiolics, families suffer too. President nkama of Botswana placed a tax hike on the Boose, it is about time we started taking responsibility in Zambia and watched traffic rules aswell. Though late in application, it is a good start. I shall pray for more good legislation in our great country. Our children can be sane once more.

  3. The only way to solve this problem is to introduce hefty fines if youngsters are found patronizing these places.You see as Zambians we talk to much ish and never act,look at the situation at Northmead or even worse kabwata and other townships,youngsters get to so wasted.An option would be to introduce Responsible Service of Alcohol qualification to the bar attendants,i think it might improve the situation……….

  4. Not only liquor dealers are trading without licences, there some people out in kitwe’s Nkana West who are turning their houses into boarding houses without any licences of which they are mixing up boys and girls in one boarding house and one of them is 53 Boma street Nkana West, I wanted to know how they run private boarding houses without any registrations, Are’nt these people the same as lodge owners because its now getting out of hands and to make matters worse the house is not maintened and its not condunsive to be a boarding house, can council do something before i write to the post newspaper.

  5. WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO SELL UTUJILIJILI, IS MR CHISANGA GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM? YOU SEE ,AT BUS STOPS BUS DRIVERS AND CONDUCTERS ARE ALWAYS IN THE HABIT OF DRINKING THE TUJILIJILI BECAUSE THER ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE NO WONDER THESE PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS INSULTING AND OVER SPEEDING.YOU FIND PEOPLE SELLING IN FRONT OF COUNCIL POLICE OFFICERS AND THEY ARE BUSY SHOUTING ALL SORTS OF NAMES FOR THE SAME BEER,ESTHER PHIRI, JOHN CENA UTUJILIJILI AND SO ON BUT ONE SEEMS TO BE DOING ANYTHING.CAN MR CHISANGA DO SOMETHING PLEASE!!!!!

  6. LIQOUR IS A MOCKER AND HE WHO PARTAKES OF IT IS NOT WISE. THESE ARE WORDS FROM THE BIBLE,THE WORD OF GOD. PLEASE TAKE HEED AND FIND FAVOUR IN THE SIGHT OF GOD

  7. ala its true ehh !!! like i have ever bothered about the bloody paper on the wall!!! i shall drink as long as its booze.

  8. Its not only about licenses its also about what time bars should open, surely tarvens in Kalingalinga open as early as 06;00 hrs and i see diff age groups there busy drinking chibuku and watever, We should have a law that bans such bars or just closes them for good.

  9. I become very worried. In fact very annoyed and my tempreture goes up!!!!!

    we have heard such sentiments before and too numerous but very little action. How many places are selling beer that are not registered in Lusaka???
    nearly all bars allow under age girls into these barsa including at manda and arcades. How many of these bars are situated in residential areas? who gave them permits???How many of these bars that make noise right within residential areas are closed down??? Zambia is a country to break laws with impunity and u go scottfree.FTJ etc.
    Thats why we wanted Micheal Sata to bring the new order in zambia. the statutory laws are there but enforcement is a pipe dream in Zambia

  10. mr chisanga u a just making cash for xmas. how long does it take to get a liquor licence.
    do everything in one place and reduce corruption. dont just attack traders the also need to make a living. reduce on the time taken for one to be issued a licence and the requirements.

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