The Green Market Advisory Committee has commended Kabwe Municipal Council for getting rid of vendors from the streets.
Committee Chairperson Ignatius Chipoya expressed happiness at the clean up exercise that was carried out by the council last week.
Mr. Chipoya said the clearing of vendors from the streets would now force them to start selling their merchandise from the designated markets.
He told ZANIS in Kabwe today that this would increase the revenue which the council will be collecting and also promote sanity in the town.
He said the removal of vendors from the streets would also enable people move freely and urged the local authority to continue with the exercise so that the town could be kept clean all the time.
Mr. Chipoya further noted that the efforts of the council would now be appreciated because garbage clearing will be easy and effective.
“We cannot support the vendors because they have abandoned their own tables in the market, so why should they mess up our clean town?” he said.
He has since called on the vendors who had left their designated trading places to return to markets, adding that those who did not have stands in the market should apply through the committee.
ZANIS
The vendors will surely come back on the street with a vengence. The same people clearing them will info them that exercise over. The vendors will then re-appear. A lasting solution must be found. we need opening more market space, create more jobs for people to have jobs (absorbing the vendors) and other ways to make them not see vending as only option. Well done for now for clearing the streets. Hope u can sustain it. In Lusaka the council say they have spend more than K4 billion Kwacha clearing vendors from streets without addressing root cause. So it wont work
I have always suggested that arresting people found buying from vendors is a more effective way to stop street vending. When people stop buying from the streets, but go to markets and shops, vendors will disappear from the streets.
Make buying from street vendors illegal, just like receiving stolen goods is illegal.
They will be back in two days,just wait