PF Secretary General Davies Mwila has directed the Lusaka City Council to revisit the issue of street vendors in the Capital City.
Addressing party officials in Chawama Constituency, this afternoon, Mr. Mwila further called on the Mayor of the greater city of Lusaka to direct Council Police to stop harassing street vendors with immediate effect.
He has guided that a street or two could be dedicated to street vending in Lusaka with the Council providing amenities such as water and toilets.
“Why harass a woman selling cooking sticks…do cooking sticks bring Cholera? Go and deliver this message to His Worship the Mayor. We are voted for by our poor people and we therefore refuse as a Party that our people must be mistreated for selling cooking sticks” said Mr Mwila.
Mr. Mwila’s directive is in line with the Patriotic Front’s all-embracing pro-poor policies that seek to ensure that the poor people actively participate and benefit from the economic development of our country, as highlighted in the PF Manifesto
This is according to a statement issued by PF Media Director Sunday Chilufya Chanda
Bad move. Davis is not normal upstairs. Dullard.
And Gay Scott was ready to leave the entire Republican Presidency in the hands of this illeterate.
No no no no. First toilets and running water then open 1 or 2 streets for vending.
we are not under “the party and its government”. Unelected officials must not give directives to elected officials with regards to national or government matters. This is a recipe for anarchy.
President Lungu needs to grow a spine and arrest this trend.
It’s almost as if the country has a figurehead president controlled by some other forces behind the scenes.
How fool000ish can this be?? Keep vendors off the street and have the PF Secretariat build them trading places after all they have more money than Job (in the Old Testament) had.
Keep the street clean and no party has power of the Mayor of Lusaka. If you move forward with these shenanigans, we the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise will soon show you who is boss.
Shaaaa!!!
Ni 2021 strategies eyi. We all knew these people with no clue how to create jobs were going to be using street vendors as their footballs
Davies you are the only embarrassment right now. bye!
what have we been telling you…really laughable and this is a party SG of PF!!
PF like fighting, since they don’t have Kambwili anymore, they have to find someone else to fight with.
So confusing, a Lusaka Mayor should be respected and not get supervision from a Political Party Secretary.
Ifiko mu mutwe Mr Davies Mwila.
Our friends in Rwanda are light years ahead launching a satellite to link up its future generations in primary schools in Zambia…we are simply going backwards with these dullards no difference to Nigeria just big at talking and stealing
Now; this is stup!d!
Is like a d0g chasing it’s own tail……round and round it goes in circles. The President just last week goes to Kafue to ‘pick’ rubbish from the street/market and today we have a SG of his Party encouraging proven sources of rubbish back on the streets. How in h3ll can a responsible Govt operate like this?
Mr. Mayor, please ignore this ignorant guy, Mwila. You’re doing a good job and Mwila is just ignorantly running his mouth. Just because people voted for you doesn’t mean you just let them do what they want to do, even if it means breaking the law. People who want to engage in small businesses must follow the city ordinances. They have to do business in designated places, and not just anywhere they feel like. It’s not about what they’re selling–cooking sticks or food. It’s about where they’re selling from. KEEP LUSAKA CLEAN!!! KEEP ZAMBIA CLEAN!!!
No please give us a clean city even Rwanda is talk of the world and we still talking about street vendors. Mtn,Zain and zamtel also let them move those selling points out of the streets. They are so disorganised and once you let this go on ,we shall have the most dirty country in Africa.
There is no leadership …he is happy to see his dull weak President picking papers for the cameras every month
And you wonder why we will never develop with Grade 7s in leadership…here is a Party SG ordering a City Mayor …really laughable and Sunday the dull boy delivered this statement
Oh may days!!!! 2021 campaigns are now in full swing.
Very retrogressive just like the whole PF governance, if you support PF and you are not directly benefiting from its fraud then you are flat out stupid!
How about if one has no shame? I mean there is a minister on the other article trying justify flying out to RSA for a bruised arm and staying there for one month with his wife on govt time as he was issuing statements from there about ZAMTEL. Meanwhile the same govt is now charging students for the privilege to study medicine….the fact that a student has qualified to that school is a bonus to this nation and should be rewarded with free education. How sophisticated is Brian’s arm that he can not trust our doctors …how about the people dying on PF roads everyday?
Naumfwa icisushi canunka.
I warned you people right here on LT that voting for a PF candidate would a grave mistake, I told you to vote for an independent…Sampa is powerless against SG Mwila who is a kaponya and had a say in him being adopted by MCC. As for Lazy Lungu in State House he is too weak and surrounded by crooks.
Apart from allowing the city traders back in streets OR STREET VENDORS, grassroots members of the PF have no capital to commence their trading.First take deliberation time of IMPOWERMENT FUNDS.
Is this not the same thug who told PF caders to steal council plots and take over public spaces ???
This is a thug who desrves to live in the DRC anarchy for sure ..
If this mwila is not directing violence he is promoting anarchy and lawlessness
What else is he good at ..do you think a kaponya can come out of his comfort zone and start talking about technology and innovation ..really laughable…that’s like asking BUFFOON CK to simply answer “no comment ” by his lawyers to the police.
2021 is beckoning
Yes,well said Hon.Davis Mwila.The poor street vendors are the ones who brought PF into power in 2011 and they love PF with all their hearts,so why mistreat them?Council police should leave these vendors alone to trade freely.ALL THE LCC CAN DO IS ENCOURAGE THESE TRADERS TO BE CLEANING THEIR SELLING PLACES!!THIS A VERY GOOD MOVE INDEED BY THE PF SG!!!President Lungu must support this move.Indeed PF is a pro poor political party and it must continue being so!!THIS IS THE PF WE KNEW.Cholera can be prevented by simply cleaning Lusaka city.
This is exactly why Zambia and the rest of Africa will remain in the stone age. We have too many individuals that are unwilling to engage their reasoning powers to make choices. Instead they make choices based on trivial things like their bellies or political affiliation. They know nothing or rather, they choose to ignore morality for the sake of personal agendas.
Its difficult to stop a pig who likes wallowing in mud…
They have markets made for them. The poorer ones can be given two months grace period to pay for their stalls. This Davis Mwila is a mistake in PF.
Njimbu…you’re indeed a big id1ot. With foools like you, no wonder Zambia is not going anywhere. What a shame.
At least we have a post from an ***** representing pf supporters.
DM chikopo…
I don’t hide my discomfort with leaders who have the habit of leading by giving directives. It shows a dysfunctional country and brain disorder where a leader mistakenly thinks that they are very intelligent, more than any other citizen. Give me such a leader and I will prove to you that we cannot attain the 2030 vision, how can we if technocrats and professionals cannot inspect a damaged bridge unless they receive a directive from state house?
The PF needs a new secretary general. This one is on another level of surprises. Not even good ones either. Every time he speaks, I know he is about to embarrass the president and the whole PF. The Mayor was elected by Lusaka residents to do city work, not PF nonsense.
Who ever benefits from street vending wil give pf a vote,sg mwila might sound ilogical but he knows hw to mobilise his pf,look at hw many opposition wards and consituencies hv bin imfiltrated by pf under mwila.
Hahahahaha……reality has started dawning! 2021 is fast approaching.Davies Mwila says they are voted for by poor people.Poor people whom they just give tuma K200 and buy them chibuku kwasila! Rich and well informed citizens can never vote for this government.They cannot be bought just like the great new UPND Sesheke MP refused to be bought
This guy! I am impressed with the way he is mobilising his party. he may not be as daft as he portrays. This statement will be heard – but not obeyed – by sampa. Meanwhile, the ” cooking stick” women know where he stands.
DM is not a public officer for him to start giving directives to those in public office. He could have said those things to his party colleagues behind doors.
But ba Mwila cinecine chikopo. The really dull to the core. I truly have no words to describe the man. And Lungu is quietly sitting & looking at this man bark.
I knew that such cheap politicking would soon come back to our nation.Mr Mwila,learn to differentiate between party issues and government policies.
Last time government spent a lot of money which was not budgeted for to contain the cholera scurge and today you are making such careless statement to the public. Innocent lives were lost because of such leadership were you wake up and decide wrong things without consulting you party colleagues, like Sampa.Iam human and also feel for my brothers and sisters who are trying to make ends meet.After the vendors were removed from the streets , you promised them that you will find them alternative place to trade from with water borne toilet and bath facilities but up to now you have done nothing and instead you want to bring the back to the streets…
People here have rejected this *****s rantings. Thankyou ladies and gentlemen , am proud of all of you who reject stupidity.
Sure isthia the right thing to say?how are we going to progress if will he moving one step forward and ten steps backwards thus is not right for the people if Zambia ba sg ,let’s table real issues here Rather than taking us back to 2018 .
Jay Jay that pig remark.. hahahahahahaha
You made my day 🙂