Government has directed all local authorities countrywide to immediately take over all markets and bus stations.
And all councils have been directed to take an inventory of all market stalls and create a data base for traders by October 18, 2011.
Local Government, Housing, Early Education and Environmental Protection Minister Professor Nkandu Luo gave the directive at a press briefing in Lusaka on Tuesday.
Professor Luo says the policy measures aim at bringing sanity to the markets and bus stations.
Markets have in the past been run by political cadres and Associations.
The minister has also directed Councils to immediately stop issuing Car wash licenses.
And Professor Luo says she is still studying the report on the Lusaka City Council Lilayi Land scam.
She says findings will be presented to cabinet and later to the public.
Professor Luo has also announced that mayoral elections will be conducted this weekend.
Action time, we need a bit of tax or levy from these marketeers. Some of them make good money.
it`s temperal,how is sata going to appease his band of cadres.madam luo wait till you receive instructions from judge ngoma
Good move. you are a proffessor for sure
Good!
Mayoral elections will be conducted this weekend. Â Is there no campaining
What campaigning? Mayors are elected by Councillors, not the general public so they’ll campaign amongst themselves.
This is a good move and deserves commendation. Hope state house doesn’t interfere with this. Well done Prof. Luo
Sanity at last and very good move but be afraid Nkandu Luo, very afraid. Judge Ngoma and his ilk will not be very happy.
Yes councils should generate money from the markets and MUST maintain them! Keep ’em clean and build new toilets and keep ’em clean too!
Efyonachitemenyakofye chi Luo she is action oriented.Ala bane bakaponya inchito shapwa.
They should be charged an annual license fee. More money for govt. Bus operators must be charged a levy based on the fleet and size of buses. GBM buses and those that travel international must pay more!!! Hellooo
Wow ni down m lovin da way the new govt is cleaning the mess!!! VIVA SATA!
SEEMS THERE HAD BEEN TOO MUCH CORRUPTION IN THIS COUNTRY
It nice to see a smile of the Dr above,it reminds me of her picture years ago when the then presido Chiluba commented how clean our Zambian ladies are. Politics is hard.
At last people can work at peace not with the fear of being intimidated.
her smiles reminds me of the lecturer i knew at medschool when she was happy with delivering what she knew best, data to eager students. it is a loss to academics but i guess a gain to politics of that brilliant mind of hers.
Excellent move, but I fear it might be reversed becoz majority of people who voted for PF are the controllers of markets and bus stations especially in Lusaka and C/B
This is not true. MMD cadres still had a tight grip on these places, even in the so-called PF strongholds.
Finally…..Ministers are beginning to make pronouncements…..can we have more of this from the rest of Cabinet…
sense and sensibility
This has to be lauded as the first act WITH integrity we have seen from this new Government so far and is whether one agrees or disagrees with the content, which I obviously do!
Thank you PF. Sanity of getting back to Zambia. For 20yrs, MMD cadres have taken over the role and revenue of councils. It has been chaos and corruption.
This is truly awesome. MMD ruled markets and bus stations with impunity. The rule of law must now prevail. Who is a kaponya now?
And MMD sychophants called PF a banch of what?!——‘Kaponyas’?!
Ba Kaponya in the driving seat. I’m loving this!
Well done at last we can have law and order in Markets and Public bus stations. MMD Jokers really robbed Zambians of the integrity.
Home Affairs Minister please sort out all passport and Ma reg offices, those Chaps are so corrupt.
Finally civilty has arrived in Zambia. Prof. Luo you are right. get rid of unprogressive thieves and brigands from the market places calling themselves as party cadres. infact have them arrested and sent to Prison.
Nkhani yapamisika is good news. Hope the move will be sustained.
Yeah, I think that’s a great move. Everytime I talk to someone whos been to Zambia recently I always ask about our clean town center is. I guess this time I willl have to change that question. Donchi Kubeba is really working. GOOD!!!
Why is it a trend in Zambia to refer to non-academic personnel as Professor? Is Dr Nkandu still a lecturer at the Medical School?
Prof. should streamline the Passport Office and the National Registration Office, too much lax there.
Adviser,don’t be a fool.She will never loose that title she obtained with strife on the book.She got it using her brains.Use yours too.Don’t be that ignorant.In my view you are so smart a person but you are acting out of your consciousness .Be realistic.I like your blogs and respect you though
#30 Kakaka. Professor is an academic post. She is no longer a lecturer and she should just be referred to as Dr (if she has a PhD) Luo. The same applies to former lecturers who are masquerading as professors even when they are no longer teaching. It is just a stu.pi.d Zambian habit. Bill Clinton, or Obama dont go around calling themselves Professors. I left the University at Senior Lecturer rank one rank next to Associate Professor should I then go around calling myself Senior Lecturer? Does an ex CEO go around calling herself CEO? Bufontini pa zed bunapaka!
@ #30. If she is still employed by an academic institution in that position OR has retired whilst holding that position then she can still be referred to as Prof (sometimes retired professors are given the title “Professor Emeritus” so that they maintain the title of Prof). Professorship is an academic title and is not like a doctorate. One ceases to use it upon termination of employment/contract. Otherwise, she reverts to simply Dr. Luo. But, of course, in Zambian circles, this is not the case.
With respect and a lot of love, I say “Chilubi ichi”. Someone from the MMD please translate this.
Who is legally entitled to run markets and collect user fees? Are counsels supposed to be directed to collect these fees or is it their legal right to do so?
If there’s no law, anything happens. The next president or indeed the same incumbent president can wake up one morning and direct his minister to direct councils not to collect market user fees.
Our beloved Minister Professor Nkandu Luo please next should be the board at NHA and the chief executive Elias Mpondela.We know his knee before every day so that he is not fired.Careful with him,because you may end being fired you self by King Cobra.Look at that report of the 3.5billion on the sold task force Katundu,GOODS
Musiwa Likota 31,what this you are talking about.For many years now people have been calling her that.How many Zambians know of what you are talking about.We need issues like building of extra rooms at the learning learning centers,our children sleep 8 in room for 2 people.Am for a government that will build more rooms for our children.
Thanks a lot 31, 32 – I was being really insulted by ignorance. #36 being ignorant is not a defense. Dr. Luo should be in the forefornt of correcting an anomally instead of riding on people’s ignorance. When our people hear the title “Professor” they think that the person is so intelligent that whatever comes out of their mouth is taken as gospel truth. “Professor” is an academic title – you do not need a PhD — that is why a Kyambalesa can be referred to as “Professor” by some gullible press — and he keeps quiet. There are a lot of Nobel Prize winners in the Sciences at Research Labs here – they are not referred to as “Professors” because these are not Academic Institutions. There is nothing like Zambian – this is Universal.
Professor or is it Dr. whatever!? next please get rid of the street vendors along chachacha, freedom and lumumba roads, they are making the town filthy, or maybe you are fearing that these are the same guys who voted for you!
Kakana Phiri,
Pay attention to what #31,32,and 37 are saying. They are very right and you are dead wrong. Professor is simply a rank that you get after promotion from Senior Lecturer at a university. If you are promoted from Marketing Manager at Bongololo Limited Company to General Manager and you retire after some years, are you going to continue calling yourself General Mangager Kakana Phiri? Nkandu Luo is supposed to be addressed ad Dr. Luo and mot Professor Luo because she is no longer a lecturer at the university.