Manda Hill Mall has been reopened following the restoration of water supply.
The Lusaka City Council closed the mall after it was discovered that it had no water supply, leading to closure of public toilets.
Soon after the closure, Manda Hill management worked with speed to restore water.
“We would like to thank all our customers for your patience. Please note that the water supply has been restored and the mall remains open. Enjoy your shopping,” Manda Hill has posted on its Facebook page.
Earlier, the Lusaka City Council closed down Manda Hill Mall for failing to have functional toilets.
According to a Notice, the Council has closed down the upmarket shopping mall because it did not have running water in its toilets.
An inspection by the Council also showed that the Mall did not have wash hand facilities due to the broken down water pipe which is the main water supplier at the Mall.
And suspended Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa who inspected Mall revealed that he was the one who alert Council management.
“At Manda Hill Mall all public toilets are closed and non functional. I went to the Mall Centre Management and was told by some rude attendant that toilets are closed because there is a problem with a water pipe,” he said.
“I have alerted LCC Management to visit them urgently and possibly consider reprimanding the Mall or Mall owners.”
If you cannot manage a common shopping mall how do you expect to run a country
What the name of that illegally installed mayor again?
Miles is suspended so I wonder in what capacity he is working. I would strongly urge him to desist from breaking his suspension as it may make things worse. The ministry of local government has authority to suspend and can also take further action. We are glad LCC took prompt steps to rectify this. However I am shocked this even made the news. With all the things happening in world are we surely going to report a toilet closure. Let us grow up. Sampa grow up
Moabites camp.
Spot on @ kaizer
My brother Miles Sampa should not fight the President. My forgiving president Lungu forgave Sampa and gave him that mayoral position and if he tries to embarrass my boss, I will personally intervene and deal with him by sending him to his squalor. We are letting the law deal with him for now. But if he pushes his luck, we shall see who is boss. Ask GBM what lessons he learned. Lungu is a forgiving man but he can react if pushed.
Miles is childish period. You gave him that position knowing fully well that he was incorrigible.
Thanks Pitt. However, do not mind my clone who has posted the comment at 11.09 above. That is tarino who is upset that no one gives him attention here
Miles Sampa has found a new role as a vigilante, it seems he wants to show that he has defied his suspension. What he must understand is that democracy isn’t lawlessness but rather an orderly defined way of doing things. And it’s good that he has requested the Attorney General to define the legal implications of his suspension. However, he shouldn’t rock the boat as he awaits the AG’s response. What he’s doing undermines authority and the due process. We need to respect the rules that we have set for ourselves. He can’t be expected to enjoy his full entitlements while he’s on suspension. He’s better off contemplating how to handle the reasons for his suspension. If his uncle the King Cobra were the Minister he could have now moved to dissolve him with that kind of behaviour. May…
There are not enough toilets in Zambia seeing the majority of the urban population eke out a living on the streets….
I wish the authorities that be can see this and do something.
Ayatollah
“….. What he must understand is that democracy isn’t lawlessness but rather an orderly defined way of doing things….. ”
” …..We need to respect the rules that we have set for ourselves……”
Haha hehehe ,
are you sure you are addressing Sampa ?
Not lungu and his thugs ???
Ayatollah
“….. What he must understand is that democracy isn’t lawlessness but rather an orderly defined way of doing things….. ”
” …..We need to respect the rules that we have set for ourselves……”
Haha hehehe ,
are you sure you are addressing Sampa ?
Not lungu and his thugs ???
Only someone who doesn’t know how Shopping Malls operate can criticise this closure…do you not know that you as a tenant and customer pay a premium in a Shopping mall because of availability of all those service facilities under one roof? Wake up from your docility!!
Is this News?
Manda Hill management have nothing to do with running the country.
Sampa,went there as concerned customer not as a mayor than he informed the LCC,tht wht inhave understood..its not sampa who closed the mall but the LCC.
Grow up KZ pliz….know one is fighting ur President,he has just failed to run this country
I don’t know what is more disappointing. That Manda Hill management, with all its food shops, decided to remain open without water until ordered, that people now make this all about Miles and not public health, or that no other member of the public (let alone a tenant or mall worker) saw the lack of water as a problem or had enough clout to speak up and make a difference.
@Spaka, the fact that ECL and his cadres are lawless at times doesn’t mean that the whole country should be disorderly. We’ll always have law breakers, mind you, some of them in higher offices but isn’t a recipe for anarchy.
if you can show the same zeal with markets, bus stops but there you can’t enter because they are voters.
Ayatollah
“….@Spaka, the fact that ECL and his cadres are lawless at times doesn’t mean that the whole country should be disorderly. We’ll always have law breakers, mind you, some of them in higher offices but isn’t a recipe for anarchy…..”
If leaders steal openly , citizens will steal , if leaders disregard the law, citizens will disregard the law……
Monkey see , monkey do……