The Lusaka City Council has says the local authority is in the process of reallocating shops and market stalls at the new Soweto market in Lusaka.
Council Public Relations Manager Chanda Makanta confirmed the development to ZANIS in interview in Lusaka today.
Ms. Makanta said this is because most of the rightful beneficiaries of the newly constructed market were left out during the recent allocation of the shops.
She said the council will start the reallocation exercise as soon as they have the correct information on people that were trading within the area where the new market was constructed.
Ms. Makanta said priority will be given to those marketeers who were displaced to pave way for the construction of the new market.
She the original records that had the final list of those that were displaced went missing making it difficult to know the bonafide owners of the shops and stalls.
Ms. Makanta said currently the exercise has been suspended due to the confusion that has arisen from the missing records that contain the names of marketeers.
Ms.Makanta has however appealed to marketeers to remain calm as the situation was being normalized.
Meanwhile, The Lusaka City Council (LCC) says there is need for stakeholders in the Keep Lusaka Clean campaign to continue rendering their support to the local authority.
Council Public Relations Manager Chanda Makanta says the Council would always appreciate various stakeholders that have continued to help LCC to keep the capital city health and clean.
Ms. Makanta told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today, that the it was not possible for the local authority to solely keep Lusaka health and clean hence the need for various stakeholders to come on board and assist.
The Council Public Relations Manager named some of the stakeholders that have assisted the Council in keeping Lusaka clean and health as Bank on Zambia (BOZ) and Barclays Bank Zambia PLC among others.
Ms. Makanta said keeping Lusaka clean and health was not only the job of the Council alone but every resident of Lusaka.
She said if everyone participates in keeping Lusaka clean and health then Lusaka would have a clean environment and better surroundings.
ZANIS
Please remove the ZANAMA Animal from the markets if order is to be restored.
No more MMD, PF, UPND, UPP etc at the markets anymore.
The ZANAMA guys are so rich from collecting levies which are meant to go to the councils in the country.
THE COUNCIL SHOULD BE COLLECTING ALL LEVIES.- WAKE UP YOU PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the first list was lost, then how will they know which person must get a stop?
I think people should re-apply again and anyone found with more than one shop must be arrested. But again the LCC system can be corrupt and its a dead end.