The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has advised members of the community to work closely with their Ward Councilors by ensuring that roads and streets in their respective residential areas are named.
Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Mulunda Habeenzu says members of the community have not be been proactive in assisting their ward Councilors to propose names, identify, roads and streets which require to be named.
Mr. Habeenzu told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that Councilors alone cannot manage adding that the task requires the participation of members of the community.
Mr. Habbeenzu said this would also assist many people to easily locate places in various residential areas.
He said this was why the Council had decentralized the identification and naming of roads to Councilors so that the process could be spearheaded by Councilors who would be assisted by members of the community.
Mr. Habeenzu said the exercise would also instill a sense of ownership in the Community adding that the council does not want to impose any name on the community.
He said the local authority only comes in to approve the name of the road when Councilors make submissions on the name they have agreed to give a certain road in their areas.
ZANIS
Good idea only hero’s name.
dead heroes for that matter # 1. we dont need to name our streets after our politicians who later mess up and we have to change the name again. eg Saddam Hussien boulevard
Thats the job of Town Planners ……
Bamdala – there are no roads in Lusaka to be proud of. And please do not allow illegal compounds to be established. Demolish those that the Courts have ruled were build on land already on title owned by people already, collect garbage, provide clean piped water … the list is endless before you can even think of naming roads, What roads?
Yeah, high time we had William Banda St; Munkombwe Crescent; Engines Rd; Veteran Ave, etc!