The Lusaka City Council has advised residents in the city that rearing of chickens in residential areas is contrary to the Public Health Act Cap 295 Section 67 of the laws of Zambia.
LCC Public Relations Manager Habeenzu Mulunda says the local authority has noticed with growing concern that the emerging trend of keeping poultry in residential environment by some residents which has turned out to be a nuisance or danger to health to the community due to the offensive odors and flies emanating from the untidy poultry yards.
Mr. Mulunda has further advised that rearing of peacocks, roosters, guinea fowls and turkeys in a residential environment is prohibited due to their vocalization abilities.
He explained that Statutory Instrument No. 44 of 2007 of the Local Government prohibits keeping upon the premises any dirt, filth, refuse, rubbish or any matter likely to become offensive.
Mr. Mulunda has therefore advised residents to comply with the said laws, failure to which the council will have no alternative but to commence legal proceedings against the offenders.
This is very 17th Century regulation…
Has he heard of peri-urban agriculture? Give us land to farm where is there access of good roads, water, electricity and near markets.
Any way I agree with you, especially those pigs and sheep in old Kanyama and the compound near Chelston, where the innocent boy was killed by suspect PF militarist. later relatives could not bury the body.
This is not very clear, does LCC include rearing for commercial purposes too, if so, which i sadly suspect, this is bad for people. Our local authorities and government have an extremely bad tendency of stifling any sort of entrepreneurial initiative by citizens..There is rife unemployment and cutting people’s income streams is very bad!
Do not worry we will continue importing chickens from south Africa.
I agree, it’s a health hazard especially in this age of strange Bird Flu!
@cindy
no cindy!! what bird flu, there is no bird in zambia never have been… i agree with @kolak.. 17 century by law.
In Zambia cindy if one does not make plans you die… you ,make a veggie garden,, chickens at the backyard, salaula pa mbali, sell and pay your bills.. otherwise njala will kill you
Chicken prices will soon soar. As there will be a transport cost factor consideration from the farms.
Great …please LCC visit PHI beenie mwiinga housing complex in chainama ,Lusaka lots of culprits violating this law and causing rat infestations in our homes ….well done !!…..now we will observe the implementation of this law !!
LCC can you just shut up, people have to survive , i have been keeping chickens for years and my neighbors are not complaining because of this i have managed to build two flats , i have bought a carter and a bmw, so please just shut up if you do not have plans for your feature moreover you can not manage to gives small holdings you are very corrupt had it not been mean wood i was not going to own the flats
iwe are you saying there are people rearing rats as well? how do rats come as a result of someone rearing pigs or chickens? let people supplement their meager incomes by keeping chicken. ba pf mwanyanya
Mwana mano I sympathise with you comrade, these misguided bureaucrats that we have in Zambia, just sit down in an air-con office, passing orders that kill people’s livelihood for no reason. I wonder why they would want to do this, unless LCC is trying to protect the monopoly of big businesses in the chicken industry. LCC must be encouraging enterprise and initiative from people, thats how you build and grow a strong economy!
Imwe bantu people are simply trying to sustain a living. Where are the jobs you promised us in 90 days…?
just next to the police office in PHI some one is rearing lcc ask cops.
LCC, what about the disgusting town centre, Street vendors making town look like a market. Parts of town centre in this rain season is a no go area. Start with our town. Give the chicken rearing people strict cleaning rules. They depend on those businesses.
Well said daxette.
Prblm these chaps they dnt consult they just wake up and make their own rules. Ancient living.
Just too many laws are not enforce in Zambia. This is a public health risk. In order to enforce this law, like a previous blogger said, the city centre should be cleared of the street vendors who also pause a health risk especially the ones trading in fresh meat, fish etc. While at it, go the whole mile and enforce the building regulations vis-a-vis ratio of area of structure to area of plot. The beauty of residential areas is lost due to non compliance.
What about who keep village chickens as pets? Should be clear pls.
What about us who keep village chickens as pets? Should be clear pls.
chelston near carpark and chelston clinic residents are rearing village chickens always on the roads chickens come and see.
Habeenzu, start by first dealing with lack of drainage, mud, waste plastics, litter, uncut grass and filthy along the streets of LSK. By the way we never see any chickens running around the city to be of concern to most of us, what disgusts us is the dirt and filthy I have just mentioned.
Awe this is how we have been raised to live side by side with our dear chickens.This is not fair.
Poultry being a nuisance, how about street vending by LCC??
Look at these chickens in the picture, they look thirsty and surprised like UPND cadres at Woodlands Police.
The road between chiku street and ngalanti road.too many poultry units.
The road between chiku road and ngalanti road in chelstone.plenty poultry units
Your Priorities are certainly upside down!! Go back to your board room and come out with better resolutions. Otherwise shut up. Its not a matter of announcing and giving Ultimatums – we want to listen to well thought through and structured resolutions.
You can do better, bane.
The clash between civilisation and primitivity. In the former, animals must have space far from human habitations so that they dont pass on certain viruses like birdflu and mad cow disease to us. The City Council represents the need for civilisation. The residents?
The residents are forced to take the side of primitivity by the tough economic situation. The council has an obligation to provide a clean healthy environment for its citizens. Sata must come in and provide a solution within 90 days
About time lets applaud LCC on this progressive Act I’m sure the law has been there but has not just been enforced then again one may ask about the peacocks and velvet monkeys at State House and their vocalization abilities.
Keep it up LCC next street vending!!
What about the wild animals at Plot 1? Why is LCC doing about it?
Imbecile iwe is that a residential area?
About time lets applaud LCC on this progressive Act I’m sure the law has been there but has not just been enforced then again one may ask about the peacocks and velvet monkeys at State House and their vocalization abilities.
Keep it up LCC next street vending!!
About time let’s applaud LCC on this progressive Act I’m sure the law has been there but has not just been enforced then again one may ask about the peacocks and velvet monkeys at State House and their vocalization abilities.
Keep it up LCC next street vending!!
It is high time regulations are enforced. I’ve seen one house which was built around an electricity pole in Kabwata; utter disregard for planning rules and disrespect for City Council regulations
In Dar Es Salaam it is common for people to have Dairy cows in their backyards just to have your own milk!
Left to their own guise, people will done anything
this law was implemented in 2007 and it has been there all along so if you think you can implement the law now you are dreaming because our salaries are too low we are supplementing our sustainable in these ventures. the problem in this country is selective implementation of issues. which is more of a nuisance – indistriminate disposal of garbage. street vending without paying tax. if you were me i would tax chicken rearers so that you boost your treasury than turning us into your enemies. mind you we employ helpers who we pay at least minimum wage (though some dont) which helps in terms of crime reduction and other vices. this country amazes me really – when the cadres wanted to lynch Father Bwalya, no cadre was arrested let alone being beated but when the UPND cadres went ?????
Ee mwandi ! I hope this time around LCC means business, what a filthy city we have ? Look at Cairo road , Kwati Chishala .
very good move..come to Kabwata nzou street by mr.Ndhlovu’s house..they rear chickens..pliz help us on this..
Guys! Hollywood Street bash party is new rock tok of our town.
Way to go LCC!
We need to restore sanity in the local governance system as well!
Next is street vending!
Outlaw this Chumbu Mushololwa nuisance!
There are better ways of doing things, let alone earning an honest living!
After failing to control bars, bottle-stores, taverns, nightclubs, pubs, shebeens opening times; tijiri jiri (now sold in bottles and not in tote-packs), now they want to control a new thriving small scale chickens rearing! This is a clear case of one arm of government (MoA giving advice of how to raise chickens in your home) not knowing what the other is doing (CEEC- giving loans to those rearing chickens even in home!
This LCC Public nuisance Mgr just want to promote his chicken business since himself has got a farm land from LCC. He rears chicken and he is my neighbour at the farm.
My friend was reported by neighbors for keeping chickens in the back yard,when council visited they even disclosed who actually reported him in the neighborhood,it was a big exchange of words when the officials left.Ya may be the odor may choke the residents but the noise is bearable.
….the Chinese were wondering why their chicken sales have dropped so much……because people are rearing chickens in their back yards. they must have complained thru their embassy to plot 1. hence directives to city council….to unleash the ban…
LCC that is will come we are go to give you pipo house no for these rearing house and the names of .
My question is, how long does it take for the Authority to notice an illegal practice??? For many years now, we have been in this business, people have invested in building up chicken runs. 2014 that is when they wake up from there dreaming and declare the burn when this business is already our sore source of income to provide for our families..We need proactive people
please Lcc, public health department, do something about this. visit woodlands extension and Nyumba yanga area, it is indeed becoming a nuisance as bad smells and flies,come from the same premises, entering our houses and you can’t even sit outside . it is really incoveniecing. i woudnt mind if these people where clean and ensure that they get rid of the manure as far as possible from the residential areas, but it seems they feel it is their right to do what ever they wish within the boundaries of their houses, not considering the neighbours around.
when you approach the neighbours that rear chickens and complain, it like it is falling on deaf ears. they will not even consider your complaint as their would not be any change. PLEASE LCC HELP.
Okay, put some regulations, and maybe restrict the number of chickens per house, unless there is adequate land and facilities, but many people with chickens are poor, and they are a good investment. These heavy-handed bans are going to make matters worse for people. Also, there should be strict limits on commercial businesses raising animals, so that conditions are humane and do not facilitate the transmission of disease like factory farms in the U.S. do.
Do not be selective, include maize !!
THIS ISSUE WILL END UP LIKE THE STREET VENDOR ISSUE ! A BLIND EYE WILL BE TURNED !
LCC do not bring laws that were crafted by colonialists to stop Africans rearing chickens and force them to buy from butcheries which were run by whites. That law and the one on dog licensing stopped africans from keeping dogs they used for hunting. The history of Money Economy in Northern Rhodesia
After cheating us that w’l be better in 90 days,they now want to take away da little extyra income we have from chickens?after suffewring high taxesd which dis pa bufi goverment promised to reduce,we engange in chicken business and they tell us to stop?HH warned us bout dis goverment and its just coming to pass.