Thursday, March 28, 2024

Lusaka Street vendors given ultimatum

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The ministry of Home Affairs has given street vendors in Lusaka up to Saturday this week to move.

Home Affairs Minister, Lameck Mangani says police will forcefully remove vendors that will not comply with the directive.

Mr. Mangani says the ministry of local government has given the police K2 billion for the exercise.

He said in an interview with ZNBC news that street vending in Lusaka and other towns has reached disturbing levels.

Mr. Mangani warned that vendors that will disregard the directive should be ready to face the consequences of their action.

The minister urged the Lusaka City Council to sensitize street vendors on the impending police action.

[ZNBC]

29 COMMENTS

  1. you see?that’s why i keep saying our leaders do not think properly! instead of giving that 2 billion to police to remove them,you should have used it to bulid another market! don’t u know that that’s where thier bread and butter comes from mostly due to your incompitence.away with these old ploticians,can we please get some new blood in office! mashamba yeka yeka!

  2. #2 There is the new Soweto Market that has remained unoccupied! The street vendors ran away from there!! Dont just blame, investigate.

  3. The council has no money but now they have all this ZMK 2 billion to give to police to beat up people. Circus in Zed. We need leaders with a Vision and who can move Zambia forward. why pay all this money just to beat up people instead of finding alternatives? Shame on our leaders

  4. All the so-called street vendors want are areas where they can trade. Build more markets or good roads to areas where they live. If it was politicians who were ‘street vending’ for jobs, vacancies could have been found for them either in embassies abroad or as DCs.

  5. This all thing is just too silly and complicated! It’s like some of the big men do not know a way to still the money, so they say they are paying the police to do a job that they already get paid for. I understand that the police fight for order in the society, and are paid to see to it that the law is being followed! Why pay them extra money, and, God help us, does it have to be ZMK 2billion. By the way, all that money will be spent on the Lusaka issue, I guess that’s what the title says. So we should expect more money to be spent on the same issue in other towns. What is really wrong with us Zambians? Good heavens, all young men out there, I emplore you to study hard, prepae yourselves to take over the country, I guess the old system (by old politicians) does not work anymore!

  6. the problem lies not with the vendors but does find sweet repose on the shoulders of politicians. one moment they detest vending and the very next moment espause the same vice… i am confused. masebo had cleaned out the streets and then they got dirty again even worse than they had ever been before… we watched and said nothing… good luck this time around and i hope this exercise is based on principle not emotions..

  7. The ministry of Local Government has given the police K2 billion for the exercise of chasing the vendors away from the streets of LSK?

  8. This is a big problem. People have to street vend (informal sector) due to the fact that they can not get formal employment and due to the fact that there is no welfare system. If the economy was to grow then this problem would disappear.

  9. #2 Over new soweto market is that, that market is not yet openned and handed over to the people of Zambia to start using it. The problem is with LCC. We have markets in our compounds or townships and the people of zambia should promote trading in their areas, building up their own shops for vegetables and fruits and of fresh fish and dry fish etc..City market and other markets in should operate half day so that they give chance to the LCC refuse collectors, in this way the city market will be ever clean.

  10. If people stop buying from street vendors, but choose to buy from markets and shops, then there will be no street vendors at all. These vendors are there because people buy from them on the streets.

    LCC should prosecute people found buying from street vendors. A by-law like that is easier to enforce than having to chase after street vendors.

    Make street vending illegal on both sides just like it is with stole goods where both the thief and the one found receiving stolen goods are guilty by law.

  11. #21 contd

    In the UK, one way they have controlled prostitution is by arresting those found picking these girls. So people fear to be found out by police. That is inviting war with your wife.

    Similarly buyers of street vended goods should be held accountable to perpetuating the vice.
    Sometimes its due to laziness on the part of the public. They just cant take an extra effort to go buy from the shop. Its like keeping the environment clean, where both drivers and walkers are guilty – throwing rubbish anyhow.

    Street vending is a vice, but so is buying from street vendors.

  12. # 2.You are full of it! It is a height of folly and people like you that think making markets all over the city will control the state in which Lusaka is.Common now look at the city it looks trashed! without control is what has led us into this sh..*&#@! If your children were defacating all around the house perimeter when you have a toilet, would you build six more toilets to control that?please use use your grey matter in your head Lusaka is a sorry site. We need a city ordinance to out law any vending in the city perimeter and if found you can go to jail without exception of a fine.BUILD MORE PRISONS intead-People will respond!Then go out and build markets in the compounds than city areas.Discouarge people from going to “town” city areas are supposed to be regulated clean areas!…

  13. the word or term street vendors did not come by accident, it has been exisitng from way back. These people will not go anywhere. Govt has failed to give them jobs but instead the Chinese are making hay in our country. Leave them alone and use that 2 Billion kwacha to better their initiative. That where their bread and butter comes from mwebantu. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, Ba lekeni. When they come knocking on ur door or ur car window for tandizo will u assist them? U wont! Leave them alone

  14. just look for a better term other than street vendor and call them traders to give them some respect. Ta ba kaye nangu kumo, bale keni ta mwa ka ba sunge.

  15. ALL DIASPORA bloggers who are against the GOVT. ACTION over venders,Just take a brief view of the streets where you are and compapre them to those of Lusaka or any of the big towns in zambia.Tell others abouts streets in countries you have stayed or visited.

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