The Lusaka City Council (LCC) says it is committed to ensuring that the Food, Drug and Public Health Acts are always enforced in the city.
Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Mulunda Habeenzu said this is because the local authority wants to see an increase in the number of business outlets conducting their operations in clean environments.
Mr. Habeenzu told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that enforcing the Act is also another way of getting the Council to regulate as many food business outlets as possible.
He said that the Council does not give trading licenses to anyone who wants to open an outlet but gives those who go through the Council after medical examinations.
And Mr. Habeenzu has called on Lusaka residents to closely work with the council as partners.
He said it would not be of any help for people to just castigate the local authority without helping it find solutions to the many challenges facing the city.
Mr. Habeenzu said the council is open to people with ideas on how best the city can be developed.
There have been calls from the Public Health Partnership Forum (PHPF) on LCC to ensure strict enforcement of the Food, Drugs and Public Health Act to stem the outbreak of Cholera and other diseases like dysentery and tuberculosis in Lusaka.
ZANIS
So very inactive council.Resign if you have failed to be proactive in your duties to the city.This shows that there is need for a serious overhaul in the local authority.They are busy always to put clumping cars in town instead of investing their revenues into projects that would earn them more.