Patriotic Front (PF) and United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres have allegedly joined their MMD counterparts in collecting levies at City Market Bus Station.
Lusaka City Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Habeenzu Mulunda confirmed the development in Lusaka today.
Mr. Mulunda said PF and UPND cadres have taken over the collection of levies on the northern gate while MMD cadres have been collecting levies on the southern gate.
He appealed to leaders of the three political parties to intervene in the matter as the council was loosing out on the much-needed revenue.
Mr. Mulunda lamented that the move by cadres was illegal and against the court injunction obtained by the council to stop cadres from collecting levies.
He said the council has lost colossal sums of money which could have been used by the council for service delivery
Last Week the Lusaka High Court granted a mandatory injunction to the Lusaka City Council (LCC) restraining individuals masquerading as MMD cadres from collecting bus station levies at Lusaka City market.
Delivering the ruling, High Court judge Nebert Mutuna also directed the defendants to leave the city market bus station and be restrained from interfering with the council’s conduct of affairs until further notice.
According to a statement of claim, the defendants on July 9, without the consent of the LCC trespassed the city market bus station by entering the premises and started collecting monies and levying bus operators, premises owned by LCC.
This current move is a clear violation of the High Court ruling by the cadres from the three major political parties in the country.
Nambala 1!!! Damn i made it!!!
Kaili thats the ultimate job one can get,appoint oneself and collect the levies and pocket the money and build the mansion and live large. Ni pa Zed pano!
I haven’t seen city market look this clean before…is this what it looks like these days? And where are the throngs of crowds and minibuses?
Let’s hear it from sources on the ground…ati shani Ba Moze?
Nambala fili Pearl of Truth, can’t you see the stagnant water in the foreground? That’s what brings malaria in the area.
Tha MMD started this & SATA-HAKA have followed suit, whose to blame??
poor governance. Lord help us recover from this whole mess.
Tonga Bull, you are number 1 because you spend much of your times doing nothing. Go back to work and improve the life of your brothers and sisters in Southern Province than spending too much on net
# 5 Nine Chale, hi good to see you. remember ………………….. on the other thread
Well everyone, I will see you in the evening. It feels weird to blog with people that I don’t know.
Bye.
Hi X Choncholi
Didn’t see your comment, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted #9…hmmm, let me hang on a while… It feels good to blog with people that I know. lol
#3, look closely at the bottom of the pic and you ll notice that the ground is wet. This not ran season so that water must be coming from some blocked pipes, most likely sewer. And yes, where are the minibuses and ba kaponya?
What time was this picture taken ? City market without minibuses, this is strange.Ba council surely don’t you have statutory instruments that you can use to stop these thugs from collecting your revenue ? This is what happens when you have thugs as politicians in a nation that want to please their fellow thugs. May the law come in force if at all we even have one.Were is Tetamashimba this time. Let him show us that he can talk and work atleast for once if at all he can manage.
What kind of nonesence is this, what right does a party cadre have to collect money from people on premises that the council own? Isnt this tantamount to theft ,fraud and harrassment ? Does it mean that anyone with a social club called a political party can move into any market and collect levies? Let HH-Sata and rupiah pull their people out of the market and let rupiah have these people prosecuted, since prosecutions remain in the hands of the president in Zambia. This is obtainig money on fause pretence!
Hahaha ni comedy yiy ka. One party is doing wrong on one end of the market and the other one is wronging at the other. Two very wrong deeds in one market. So Ba LCC are they saying they cant bring in police tocontrol such nonsense. Or..sorry, i forgot how powerful the ruling party is over everything in the country!! SHAME!!
Hi Nine Chale: Where have you taken your handsome face brother? Of late there’s been too much insults on the blog that some of us fail to blog. God bless you.
This is no difference to having ZANAMA running the markets and collecting levies.
This is supposed to be council revenue but the I.D.I.O.T.S. have been let loose to terrorise council officials and steal the money.
The PF-UPND masqueraders have just followed suit due to poor governance. I remember Sata as Governer for Lusaka supervising car-park levies in Lusaka and making a lot money for the council.
Mr. Mulunda, where is the Town Clerk and the Councillors? These people should be in the fore-front fighting whoever is depriving the council of revenue. Afterall, were do the councillors think their sitting allowances will be paid from?
Come on, TC and Mayor, you have a duty to protect council property so lift your butts from the offices and get moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I”ve been reading LT esp the comments for a long time and you’ve been long here including a few like ba daisy, no way, jamaco, & the copy & paste dude (M fimo fimo), Mainly I observe coz paaliba ama diss apa pa blogg I just read thru a laugh. Anyway your contributions are good!
The cadres are in training so that when they are elevated to high posts they can continue collecting ‘tribute’. I wonder what action do they take if the levies are not paid
#10 I”ve been reading LT esp the comments for a long time and you’ve been long here including a few like ba daisy, no way, jamaco, & the copy & paste dude (M fimo fimo), Mainly I observe coz paaliba ama diss apa pa blogg I just read thru and laugh. Anyway your contributions are good!
Shikapwasha’s comments on Sakala’s hold on to office citing that these are Judicial matters that must be left to the judiciary is madness. This is a constitutional matter. Chief Justice is a Head of Judiciary and in this case an interested party. Therefore, No one expects him to be a respondent & Judge on his own case. Only the President sworn in to defend the constitution can move a motion to retire the CJ. RB’s silence is tantamount to breaching the constitution making it a fertile ground for impeachment. I support those wishing to impeach RB as ignoring this is a serious constitutional breach. A Judge shall retire at 65 is because one’s mental capabilities cannot cope post this age. CJ’s hold on to power is jeopardizing the prudency of our judicial system.
Transformation: A Zambian developmental state, whilst learning from the experiences of others, must be built on the solid foundation of Zambian realities. Whilst engaging private capital strategically, our government must be rooted amongst the people and buttressed by a mass-based democratic liberation movement. Whilst determining a clear and consistent path forward, it must also seek to build consensus on a democratic basis that builds national unity. Whilst acting effectively to promote growth, efficiency and productivity, it must be equally effective in addressing the social conditions of the masses of our people and realising economic progress for the poor. This way anarchy shall be avoided.
Hi Tionge
Nice to see you too sis. I was amazed at the number of people that recognized me from the site so I decided not to be a public figure anymore. As for the insults, you know I’m immune to that by now. It’s just a few bad apples who choose to think different, not like the rest of us do….ignore is the best remedy for them.
God bless you to.
Ni bu kapoko ubu.
hehehehehehehe…A typical case of a failing state…what a joke…
This is a straight forward theft case. The council should have been complaining about this to the police period. by not reporting this matter to police, u r just exhbiting your uselessness.
In Zambia, cadres rule and call the shorts. The connection to a political party matters a lot at Zed because if you have it you can become a dealer in market levies. This is how low our country has gone. The cadres are using their connections and RB is using his!
lawlessness at its best
What made them do this is is to maintain the place or pocket the cash?If it was only opposition they would have been locked up now its MMD so they decide to shut up.Mayo ine bwafaya.
The Wild East. Very soon there will be duels on the streets of Lusaka.
Going no where in this country. Cry the beloved Country. Cry the un employed Youth, Cry the futureless Generation. Where did we go wrong? I wont comment coz you could end up like Ronnie
Circus in Zambia… why can we just make a national comedy show?…… Hi Bloggers, stuck at the airport, flight delayed so here i am..trying to pass time……Hi Nine Chale, it does feel weird blogging with unfamiliar Alias’s ayi.. i know
The UPND and PF cadres are just doing what the MMD thugs are doing. They wont stand and watch others milk the cash cow. I just hope it doesnt turn into a turf war.
Following the LT parallel thread entitled RB dares Sata and Hichilema, the UPND-PF (could-also-be United People for National Development – Progress Finders) PACT has shown its seriousness and resolve on their impeachment plan by submitting a fore message to the Speaker of the National Assemby as indicated by the POST. The impeachment motion will be presented to Parliament in the next 14 days and so let us wait and see what will happen to Mr President and those that fell nothing will happen showing that they are not scared.
All the best Mr President and all those involved in your impeachment plan. Therefore, let Parliament sort it by secret ballot.
Be blest.
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Psalm 16:
8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Zambia, a nation of the misinformed.
Following “Last Week the Lusaka High Court granted a mandatory injunction to the Lusaka City Council (LCC) restraining individuals masquerading as MMD cadres from collecting bus station levies at Lusaka City market“, it may be deduced that the Zambia Police (Service, and not Force?) has failed to discipline the MMD cadres and hence the anarchy that has ensued now by UPND-PF cadres following suit of what the ruling party MMD cadres are doing unlawfully.
I thus implore the LCC to ask ZP(S) to sort this problem for them without looking upto UPND president HH (MBA) and self-appointed PF leader Sata (Grade 2/6,unknown) inclding Mr President to resolve this.
Be blest.
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Psalm 16:
8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
What is happening in Zambia kanshi. Wrong things all the time. Kapoko is in custody for helping himself with funds that he never worked for, while these *****s so called cadres are helping themselves with funds that they are not entitled to. Where are the police? Sleeping with small girls at 14 or what. This is crazy, pure madness. Take these cadres to Chainama hills hospital pantu ma shilu bonse ba fikamba aba. What a shame to our nation
#34, Mwangala Sianga (PROF),
Did you really mean that?
35 continued.
Thus, Lusaka Province Minister and Local Government and Housing Minister together with Lusaka Mayor and Councillors and the MP for that area are the immediate people to look into this problem after the police have diffused the pandemic at Lusaka City Market that may spill to other parts of our great Country Zambia before it is too late. In this way, simple things will not always end at the top level leadership of our political system.
2011 choice yaboola (has come).
Have a blessed day all.
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Psalm 16:
8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
If you cant beat them join them. very hopeles way of doing things!
Take all these cadres to Chainama hills hospital because they are mentally disturbed. If not please reintroduce RR and take all cadres there to do some farming. What are they doing in Lusaka???
When pipo complained about the lawlessness of cadres assaulting journalists RB sided with the cadres.This is just a continuation of lawlessness.They would rather allocate a squadron of cops on poor Kabwela than deal with these thugs.This is a reflection of what is happening elsewhere.Senior Citizen give us your views
If you can’t beat them….anyway, all this points to the weakness in leadership of Teta. He promised to remove the street vendors last month, nothing has been done. Lusaka is getting filthier by the day. Now he can’t even control vendors at the market….bunda bwaku bwata bwatafye on things that have nothing to do with his ministry. Masebo was far much better.
#31,
Hi MISS DAISY. Hw u r? Whr r u going dear, nakumbwa mweee. Visiting home, tuleisa bonse.
What is the role of the cadres in Zambia? Where are the policemen and policewomen? Mr Mulunda should have appealed to law enforcement officers not the political parties as those collecting money maybe doing it on their own will. If they are collecting the monies on behalf of those political parties, DID THOSE POLITICAL PARTIES FUNDED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE AREAS IN QUESTION?
Zambia has been slowly progressing into a failed state since 1991 when the MMD took over.People of Zambia are to docile to remove this monster called MMD and should only blame themselves for the mess.People power died with the demise of ZCCM when Shimaini and Mwanma shimaini used to run riot and scare Kaunda and UNIP.
Where are FDD, PUD, FDA, HERITAGE, UPP, NADA, NDF, NDA, ULP, NCP and the rest? They must also go flat out and start collecting market leviez az long az somebody iz willing to pay.
Hello Miss Daisy, Quo vadis?
I was out when you posted #31, just returned on my desk now. Not much news on LT but the comments are always entertaining to read.
Bon Voyage.
The impeachment has failed so what next the guys want to eat forget sata and hichilema eat with your friends from the MMD you will fight another day wait for the new commander to come.. The alliance has failed, sata and hichilema have failed the people abandoned by their own storm troppers (cadres) in day light joining the MMD openely because of starvation in the camps. Magande remains to be last hope of the zambian people.Magande all these cadres are ready to support you including the churches who are the conscious of the republic,go your own way they will follow leave the MMD and challenge them show us that you can fight.
The people paying these levies are to blame.If they are happy to pay and the Council is cool with it why bother?
I shed so many tears about my beloved country.why,what,when?
Mulenga #49 when did u last visit Zam… these so called cadres are call boys.. no payment no permission to enter the premises..Hence Minibuses drivers endup being harashed or beaten..
What nonsense is this? Dont we have laws in Zambia? Those guys are thieves why cant you arrest them? Have you seen Zambians there is no leader in Zambia. We know all about MMD collection of levies at City market and people have complained to the police and the president but nothing has been done to stop it. MMD has continued collecting levies. Let us be fare people, why has it become an issue when the PF-UPND pact has also started collecting levies from markets? I recommend the PF-UPND pact for their bravery. If MMD continues collecting levies , PF-UPND pact should also continue. Law is law and there should be no one above it. This is what we always say that there is lack of leadership in Zambia as to just waste money from the markets like that. REVOLUTION 2011.
Its cry the beloved country indeed. This lawlessness cannot be permited to thrive it all boils down to the leadership crisis we have at home.
typical dis-order?????????
The issue of markets being run by cadres has been entertained for along time. Remember we had a vendors desk at one time. If we still have leaders who can say that don’t remove vendors coz those are our voters do we expect anything good when their cadres are illegaly collecting levies? I think the better solution is for the council to employ a lot of “bakanyangu” or “bakonkefunde”. In those days they are the ones who used to keep order in such cases. That even the elevated the status of the police because we rarely saw police coming in on small cases coz bakanyangu used to step in before the police take over. These cadres collect millions which they just use on alcohol; just look at intercitycity station. So rather than lose money thru thugs employ people who need to support families
The circus known as Zambia is in town. Entrance charges will be met by donors and the beneficiaries are lawless party cadres. Meanwhile, the eunuch called Zambian Law will also be part of the audience. Hurry to this fantastic show.
Our political leaders owe it to the people to show mature leadership by directing their cadres to show respect for public property. The Bus stops are people’s facilities that should never be privatised by a few individuals for selfish ends. I am sure our political parties do not in any way subscribe to this illegal levying, but condoning it by silence is unforgivable. This is how order collapses and the least we can expect from our leaders of all political persuasion is unequivocal condemnation and disciplining of those who put the names of the parties to shame. On the other hand the police and civic authorities surely have the might to exercise the law by ensuring that these undesirable persons are barred from the bus stops. Is this asking too much???