Government says it is working hard to ensure that all street vendors are accommodated in designated market places.
Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister Moses Muteteka says government is aware of the growing need for more markets in Lusaka and the rest of the country.
Mr. Muteteka told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that the number of street vendors has continued to rise in Lusaka due to inadequate trading places. He observed that there was need for more markets to carter even for people trading on the streets.
He also cited the migration of people from other parts of the country to Lusaka in search of ‘greener pastures’ as another contributing factor to the rise in street vending in the city.
And Mr. Muteteka has disclosed that government intends to rehabilitate the already existing township markets to raise the standards in the markets and make it easier for marketeers to do business.
Mr. Muteteka said he recently visited Chaisa to assess the situation at the market place. He added that Care International has been engaged to put up a shelter to increase the trading space for Marketeers.
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:-@thats all you know. Trying to please the Boss. kande tried to bootlick. Uzayenda naiwe. Mwalimwishiba RB? bashi Temwanani? Techakwesha bootlicking. Vendors are here to stay. Teta tried to move them. Two days after he was buried, ba bwekela nakabili.=d>
street vending is inexcusable. the problem of street vending in lusaka and other parts of zambia is not because of lack of legally designated trading places. it is because of traders going to places where they can reach a different clientele(motorists and pedestrians) in order to maximise their takings.the worst thing is that there are far too many people into petty trading . a nurse, teacher, policeman, or other civil servant needs to go into petty trading to suppliment their incomes if they have to survive.lawyers, doctors and pilots also have to resort to running botiques or supermarkets to live up to their names. no one is producing goods.only trading. everyone trading.govt needs to direct efforts to manufacturing. make goods,create jobs. remove people from streets. otherwise forget.
The govt needs to get it’s head out of it’s ARSE and see the light,the only way they will combat this problem is to introduce aggressive agricultural reforms in all 9 provinces.people will have the incentive to farm and earn a decent living,we all can’t be traders who is going to feed the traders?there is a lot of money to be made..don’t worry about RB he has kaponya mentality he does not see filth to him that is OK,despite him having lived abroad and got educated he did not bring anything to the table…..
We have heard all this for decades, it’s such a bore. Like #1 has said, it’s about impressing the appointing authority in order to hang on to the job.
Start arresting those who buy from street vendors, that will stop street vending. Buyers should go to the markets and shops, not buy things on the road. That’s laziness and it encourages street vending.
As for rural urban migration, create employment in rural areas. KK tried by setting up manufacturing companies there. MMD has not persued this as a strategy.
am having a sense of deja vu, i’ve been hearing this tired speech which is loud in non-election time and very quiet cose to major elections