A Choma Municipal Council team assigned to evict street vendors from the central business district escaped lynching yesterday when vendors resisted and charged at them. The team of four council police officers led by a senior council official was forced to abandon their mission after irate vendors turned violent.
The team went to clear street vendors from the central business district following a council decision which only allows vending to be conducted in designated places.
According to the council official, the team went into the central business district for routine work to remove vendors from the town centre.
This annoyed the vendors who organized themselves and reacted by threatening to beat up the council team which later fled the area for fear of possible lynching.
The slogan chanting vendors then marched to the civic centre where they demanded to be addressed by Town clerk Oliver Muuka who was at the time attending a Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) workshop at Bantu lodge.
At the civic centre, council police who could not contain the vendors were forced to hide themselves.
The Choma municipal council has designated Makalanguzu market as the only authorized place for street vending activities.
But when contacted for a comment, Choma Town Clerk Oliver Muuka said he would issue a comprehensive statement on the matter later.
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MAKALANGUZU IS IN THE RAILWAY STATION,HOW CAN YOU PUT A MARKET I THE RAILWAY STATION? BA- MUUKA SURE.JUST IN CASE, THERE IS AN EXPLOSION FROM THE RAILWAY CARGOES WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE?
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.. good question. But as I saw the railway line 2011 it has been abandoned to die. I don’t know what the ministry of transport is planing for the future of ZR. No trains running daily, no plan to join all sidelines and creat a two truck railway line for safer movement of goods, liverstock and passengers. Sad that those vendors are pushed to the railway station to establish a market. give them ginnea employment instead of begging around .
Choma is a big town and so needs a modern market.The govt should seriously consider putting up such a market.
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