LCC Public Relations Manager George Sichimba said traders should not sell food because it is illegal to trade from the graveyards.
Mr. Sichimba told ZANIS in an interview yesterday that the council was carrying out inspections and will continue to confiscate the merchandise from traders.
He warned that traders who sell liquor from the cemeteries will be prosecuted by the courts of law.
He pointed out that food is supposed to be sold from licensed and designated places.
He expressed disappointment that traders have lost the Zambian culture of respecting the dead by selling liquor which makes mourners conduct themselves in a bad way.
Mr. Sichimba has since urged members of the public to desist from buying food stuffs from graveyards and always conform to the laws by buying from designated markets.
And LCC was aware of these laws when MCS allowed street vending for political gain and they did nothing for rule of law to prevail?
What?? Mourners have appetite at graveyards? What’s this Zambia about.
LCC is always issuing warnings but no action…..
Have the soldiers returned to the barracks, or are there not enough soldiers to enforce the law on behalf of the inept Zambia Police and the City Council Police?
Very embarrassing i just saw this cholera in Zambia story on BBC America news 20min ago.Its a shame we’re being shown to the world as a filthy shacks country of cholera.
Why do you always issue warnings to law breakers. Come on its time you acted and stopped these warnings that don’t change our mind sets. In Zambia one needs to get permission to arrest law breakers. Seriously is this normal.
I can’t wait for the SI banning all forms of street vending except newspapers and talktime.It is high time we brought total sanity to our surroundings. We do not go to graveyards to buy foodstuffs, we go to bury our departed colleagues. After the SI is signed government must permanently assign law enforcement officers to man the town center the whole day and other places prone to street vending so that they are permanently kept off the streets
And not only that, a fast track court already exists that deals with road traffic offences. Government can use the same court to punish those who will be found wanting vending on the streets
Food vendors at graveyards ,political considerations above laws ,small industries in residential areas ,alcohol dens next to schools…one gets the picture Zambia is a chaotic,disorderly and no rule of laws country.
@Enka, sadly it is not a picture. That’s what it is.
The biggest problem in Zambia today especially the public office bearers is that they just perform. They occupy offices form Monday to Friday,January to December but little or no achievements. The council runs these grave yards and they have their own council police. How difficult can it be to have council police enforce this rule in grave yards??and mind you if their presence is their for say 3 months continuously, people will take note and will leave that area permanently. This tendency of neglecting issues until they are out of hand is whats killing us @Cholera. Obviously only 1 trader started and that one was never removed others followed. The council has got people in all departments,these people must start working!
If the dead can’t be respected; i don’t know this so called Christian nation is heading to; LCC is the most useless council in Zambia;
Why warn when they are breaking the law..dont be like lazy Edgar who is always issuing warning to his ministers.
Warning meant for TV show…
to convince the appointing authority ati they are working.
always in slumber these chaps
Warnings every day but no action. Remove street vendors who are still showing their ugly faces in the streets. At manda hill fly over bridge you will find them. North end stanchart you will find them. There is no sign of council police presence. Ba LCC if you fail to remove these vendors from the streets this tym when there is political good will then I don’t know when you will remove them. Be forceful.
I always say that we Zambians are reactive and not proactive. We see something will will go wrong, we don’t act before the wrong occurs; we react after it has happened.
By-laws are there for the council to enforce, but technocrats fear politicians.
Same on the roads, minibus drivers Park anywhere with impunity. Road Traffic officers are only interested in mounting speed traps and never-ending roadblock purely for mercenary purposes.
When is sanity going to return to my Beloved Country?
Totally agree. When the first street trader set up he/she was supposed to be arrested by one policeman. But they waited until the traders became a big voting block which means only 100 policemen or the president can stop them. The funny thing is that the policeman kept his job even if he has no authority to enforce the law.
Sanity requires specific performance goals and milestones for which people can be fired for not meeting them. Someone on LCC should have total responsibility for cleaning markets. If the markets are not clean the specific person gets fired. That is how it works in the working world overseas. If there is a gain for you to keep the markets clean you are more likely to do the job than if there is no punishment. Sorry I am being too sane.