The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been called upon to work with a sense of urgency and without delay complete the construction of toilets at Lusaka’s Buseko market.
The call is from members of the Lusaka District Disaster Management Unit who have expressed fear that delays in the construction of toilets at the market would led to an outbreak of water borne diseases such as Cholera.
Lusaka Central Member of Parliament Guy Scott, who is a member of the Lusaka District Disaster Management Unit, today led other Unit members to check on progress of the construction of toilets at Buseko market.
Dr. Scott expressed dissatisfaction at the progress made in the construction of toilets at the market.
He said despite financial recourses being allocated for the construction of toilets at Buseko market, less progress has been made.
And Mandevu Member of Parliament Jean Kapata noted the need for the council to act immediately and put in place sanitary facilities at Buseko market as an outbreak of Cholera was looming.
Ms Kapata said reluctance by the local authority to complete the building of toilets at the market would lead to loss of lives as the sanitary situation at the market was fertile for an out break of water borne diseases.
Recently Matero Member of Parliament Fostina Sinyangwe recommended that Buseko Market be closed due to the poor sanitation at the market.
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pwen is it going to end
oops i meant when is cholera going to end if it will ever end
Just close the Market. Thats a sane thing to do. Why wait for cholera to claim innocent lives when you can prevent the situation.
ALL THE MARKETS IN ZAMBIA ARE SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARDS. GO TO SOWETO MARKET. FOOD IS DISPLAYED ON THE FILTHY GROUNDS AND PEOPLE ARE NOT BOTHERED. IT WHOLE BOILS DOWN TO LACK OF STANDARDS IN EVERYTHING IN ZAMBIA.
Me go cancel me trip to Zed next month. Me nuh waan ketch cholera. Mi London gals dem too sweet..
jafaican
No.5 you have hit the nail on the head? The market must be closed without fail!If this is how we keep Zambia clean,then I would rather be another nationality! For how long are we going to talk about markets and the filth which they create? They are a disaster about to happen!As usual, we wait until some people die and the blame game begins!Zambians, are we such naive people that we do not know simple rules of hyiegen? Which school did the minister of local government go to?
The lst time I checked, cholera loomed at almost all markets that I have visited in Lusaka. #8, and #5, I agree totally.
“A Cholera out break looms at Lusaka’s Buseko market” has been very alarming to me. I thought that cases have been discovered, but nothing to that effect is in the news.
Is it me or LT has to improve on its reporting?
:o:o:oCHITANIPONI SOMETHING SITIFUNA KUFA:o:o:o
:o:o:o:o:o:o:o not again,please LCC do something
peter and #8 i’m no fan of the MMD but i heard something about soweto being reconstructed some time ago.
shame abt the cholera situ, but then again hasnt it become a trend to hear abt cholera every rainy season? where exactly is buseko market in Lusaka…thought buseko was somewhere on the CB..?
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14. your flag my bad, it is along Lumumba Road as you move from City Market, Soweto Market, to the Independence Stadium on your left side near Matero. Not everything is in the Copperbelt Province and it is good you are learning this fact.
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Zambia has it bad. our government is so skilled that cholera has now become an annual ceremony.