EAZ urges RB to find solutions to unemployment

The Employment Association of Zambia (EAZ) has urged President Rupiah Banda to quickly find solutions to the high levels of unemployment in the country.

Employment Association of Zambia president, Mpundu Mwanamwela, said it was unfortunate that a lot of young men and women were unemployed in the country.

Mr Mwanamwela said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that it was for lack of employment in the country that most young men and women spend time doing irrational things.

The EAZ president said the creation of employment would help young men and women to be effective.

He said there are a lot of young men and women who have attained good education but were still rooming the streets.

Mr Mwanamwela said this meant that good education was just being wasted because of high levels of unemployment in the country.

And Mr Mwanamwela has also since appealed to Local Government and Housing Minister, Benny Tetamashimba, not to go ahead and remove street vendors from the streets of Lusaka on June 6 this year.

He said government should instead first open the new Soweto Market so that those trading from the streets can start operating in the new market.

Mr Mwanamwela noted that some of the vendors were on the streets because government had demolished markets they were operating from.

He, however, said the Employment Association of Zambia does not support street vending but that it would only be best if the new Soweto Market was opened first before chasing the vendors.

Mr Mwanamwela also pointed out that high unemployment levels have also contributed to the high number of street venders.

ZANIS