Vendors in Kabwe District in Central Province are not happy at the failure by the local authority to allocate them trading spaces in the markets.
Kennedy Ngoma who earns a living by trading in various merchandise complained that most of the vendors have not been allocated trading spaces in the markets despite the ban of conducting business on the streets.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Kabwe yesterday, Ngoma lamented that while some vendors have no trading spaces at designated markets, Kabwe Municipal Council (KMC) has continued confiscating goods from vendors found on the streets.
He said it is not fair that KMC could continue not only to harassing the vendors but grab their products as well when it has not provided them with the trading spaces.
But Kabwe Municipal Council Assistant Public Relations Manager, Waluka Mwaekwa, has described the claim by the vendors as baseless.
Ms Mwaeka said Kabwe has 20 markets with enough space to absorb all the traders and that those insisting to do business on the streets were contriving the law.
She accused the traders of shunning doing business at designated market places and cited Railways and Town Centre Markets where she said 50 and 20 tables respectively were vacant while Chimanimani market has only a handful of the traders.
Ms Mwaeka advised vendors to utilise the various market committees in order for them to be allocated some trading space.
She warned that no amount of blame game will be condoned adding that the local authority will continue with its operations to ensure sanity in the Central Business District (CDB) underlying that culprits risk being prosecuted while their merchandise will be confiscated.
Lungu’s nation of chaos and lack of rule of law.
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Don’t worry you can always sell under the expensive tree, come to think of it that money could have solved all these problems, our thinking is upside down.
Vote wisely next time, just don’t vote for every pompwe in a suite, I am sure u have learnt your lesson
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