Ndola Mayor Amon Chisenge has warned that people who illegally patch potholes on roads and are in the habit of collecting money from motorists will be arrested.
Mr. Chisenga told ZANIS that, “the practice which started on township roads in Northrise has now spread to other townships like Mushili and on the high ways”.
He said the main motive of these people patching roads is to collect money from motorists not to repair the roads.
He said the same people did not even have the technical knowledge noting that the patching of roads require skilled labour after engineers have assessed the damage and determined the materials that can be used.
Mr. Chisenga added that people that offer themselves to do such works are actually damaging the roads more because they are incompetent to carry out such jobs.
He has further said collecting money from motorists after illegally patching roads is stealing from people.
“I am going to send out council police to arrest anyone one found involved in this trend because they are just stealing from the people,” he said.
He added that motorists should also play a part by not giving out money to such people in order to help stop the practice from growing.
I say thank you to those industrial citizens for seeing & taking the opportunity to help motorists & to earn some money in these hard economic times ???
How cynical. Rather arrest those that are collecting money from motorists and not doing their job!
Mo CK toll gates?
Arrest those who are dishing free money to citzens instead of repairing the roads in their respective constituencies. Ala.
Do they collect by Force? Arrest people who have neglected the roads that those innocent children are helping patching up. ??
Ba mayor umungulu weka weka. What is your council doing about those potholes?
How can they patch the same pothole the whole day, the whole week surely?!
Give them a contract to look after roads.
Some of these people damage roads deliberately and then lay in wait to collect the tax.
Yes we understand that people don’t have jobs but there ought to be something else that these young people can do.
You are dull and f00lish your worship!
Good Morning Zambia!!
Arrest those members of parliament who went to shout yaya nokutoba abanabo amapi and forget ing to Robby for funds to fix those Road ?? s. Look at Lusaka nice roads everywhere-over.
Usually these are are small kids learning responsibilities
This mayor has always dissappointed me he behaves like a headless chicken
Residents patching the road means the govt has failed its duties.
Mayor, as a Council you have failed to repair the roads.Repair them …coz its your responsibility.Which law are you going to use to arrrest the road menders?
Except for Chingola, the trend is the same in all Copperbelt districts
Its utter shame that the mayor and the local govt can not learn from these entrepreneurs. Take the positive side of these boys and start doing the same. Look for solution not threats everytime.
The last time heard of you Mr Mayor was an attack on Myles Sampa,now gone for the boys. At least they are reducing the rapid depreciation of vehicles.
Think Bwana mayor. You ve to stand and find solutions.
We expect you and your pf company to repair the dilapidated road at dunlop and not nyenyenyenye. We are tired imwe bamulya mwenda.
That’s how you have everyone look for a living now, we are all looking for anything that will give us money.
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Our roads are in a absolutely very terrible state we need to.do something serious about this. The current state of the roada is a reflection of us as a nation and how we have failed to maintain our infrastructure.
common sense!!
Patching roads and requesting a bit of appreciation is not bad. But i don’t like the idea of patching the same spot the whole day, the whole week, the whole month and the whole year.
Nature hates a vacuum.
When you have failed to arrest cadres who collect council revenue in bus stations and markets?
That is pf cader mentality being adopted by the general public ……..soon citizens will have to be openly paying police if they need protection from criminals , just like in DRC ……
And you have a president who is supposed to be a lawyer ???……..I say no more incase I am accused of hating lungu….
First of all you and your inept government have put these innocent children on the road to poverty, now you are threatening them. Get the bloody roads sorted and stop stealing the money meant for the roads. These poor children have no access to education, because you and your inept government have stolen the money meant for free education. At least they are doing some work to get loose change to eat, you people as i said before the inept people who are ruling[ruining] this country are busy stealing in the billions. you and you government should be ashamed of yourselves. and how can you arrest these minors.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They illegally patch potholes because those that are legally mandated are not doing so but busy “donating” and “empowering” people.
Leadership vacuum.
The issue of road patching by people has been going on for a very long time and it has really prolonged…it has to be approached with caution
Without the initiative of these boys, rains would have rendered the road to my area Kaniki completely impassable, thanks to the mayor and his technocrats who are stuck at the assessment stage. This same chisenga council offloaded rubble on the Mitengo road leaving a couple of concrete boulders strewn right in the middle of the road, and today he can even find the voice to pontificate to the world on the subject of professional road building. Ati uzende bati! Ma rubbish.
Instead of offering them skill training to do what they’re doing properly, you want to stop them from being progressive in life. Would you rather they go stealing or doing drugs? Think forward ba Mayor, not backwards.
useless statement. Those are kids who are doing something to make money for themselves. how can kids become residents. they are ensuring the safety of vehicles and occupants alike while waiting for Lungu t finish roads that he never does.
We pay toll and benefit nothing out of not even are patching of potholes. If you ask me it would have been better paying to these young patriots than to your legal criminals placed at every entrance of each district.
You are an Idyoto your Honor. Thank you
Instead of remaining them how dangerous it is for them to be out the roads without safety equipment and moving vehicles you opt to threaten with arrests.you should be ashamed that it has come to this.deploy the councils public works department to fix said roads.
Why should you arrest them for using their initiative??
This practice has to come to an end because many lives have been lost in this manner and mainly it is children who get heat by moving vehicles
I think a citizens arrest on this mayor would suffice. We stand with the minors, but you minors also not lyonse repairing same spot, kwiba uko
I think the Mayor has heard from many people commenting on his poor statement. You can not arrest one who is helping when you have failed to deliver.
The youth have failed to find employment hence is this innitiative.