Lusaka Mayor orders the removal of Chicken Statue at Hybrid roundabout
Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa has ordered Hybrid Poultry Farming to remove the giant statute of a chicken at the traffic circle on Great East Road.
Mr Sampa said the chicken Statue contravenes the Council’s policy on advertising.
He has since given Hybrid Poultry Farming a two week ultimatum in which to comply with the order.
This is contained in a letter addressed to Hybrid Poultry Farming Director Huw Morris dated 25th February 2019.
What’s wrong with the statue Mr mayor give us more details
I like this chi chicken and a soccer ball it is actually now a prominent landmark why would the Mayor want it removed ?? Miles mwana chisiye chabe no one has ever complained about it let Hybrid maintain the roundabout which I believe they are already doing or pay for placement
People protested against portraits of PF around Lusaka, including those for Miles, Maggie, Bowman’s statues were removed.
That Chicken may win elections in 2021 if the don’t report it to ICC.
How did the statue find its way there in the first place? I thought there were bye laws for all structures in the city. Someone at the civic center must have been paid. Who was this? If not why has nt the advertiser been charged?
I think the mayor has so much Free time in his hands. Unless he gives us a good reason why all of a sudden it has become bad. He should live it and concentrate on more important things which needs his attention. Is it blocking the view of motorists now? What about him dealing with big pot holes in the city.
Chicken and ball or chicken and egg? Artistically, the entire thing is bad. Remember the statutes at the Examination Council offices on Haile Selassie Road in Longacres and which were subsequently thrown away. I think the same sculptor must have erected them!
A truly beautiful statue I have seen in Zambia is that of a chief Mukobela in Namwala given as a gift to a primary school by the reigning HRH Lubanga Shabongwe in 1951 …
I think the chicken statue is disrupting the signals for free WiFi no wonder he wants it to be removed. Kkkkkk this is what happens when you are in office without knowing the purpose as to why you’re there.
What a pity. I have grown fond of the Big Chicken.
Pisa has the Leaning Tower. Lusaka has the Big Chicken.
Miles was looking to get a cut from Hybrid and co. But because they refused to give in to his demands, he has decided to take on this route . Shame on you!!!!
Mike let us discuss the hybrid chicken statue not making unproven allegations
Mr mayor please if there is a traffic cycle you should be talking about it is the one 1 km from your office,which is unmaintained,unkempt and dirty.Elo lekeni ukulayenda umungulu nechimpwena work,sit in your office and work who told you that ichimpwena ebu mayor?Can someone take Sampa to Kitwe mayor for orientation…
@Shimwana, I think Miles was coming from N’cwala over the weekend and then poof, he saw the big Chicken. And this time Nc’wala had no bare breasted women to keep Miles miles away from silly issues.
The chicken just makes the roundabout look dirty. Remove it and anything similar from all roundabouts. Make these places clean and beautiful.
Beautiful is not to have empty stadium, just because you want to take selfies.
Hank you Mr Mayor, it was an eyesore and not a welcoming sight as visitors enter the city from the airport.
If not, one might as well build a house at a roundabout. That’s why.
Heh this mayor is hard working..
Am not sure if this is what you promised us though
Long overdue really!
What does a chicken mean about Zambia for the arriving visitors.
I have received too many questions about that chicken.
If it is an advert it must be paid for. Everywhere in the world ads are paid for
Miles looks like he does not know what
Will make the city better.He wants to be
Seen to be working. At first it was free WiFi then abduction,then failing to pay
For meal.Try to find ways of improving
City,not making headlines.
That chikoleta makes lusakans look stupid.
Doesn’t make sense not even a bit of sense. WHAT is THAT
Nothing wrong with that big chicken. Hybrid uses that thing to advertise their chickens. Just make sure they maintain the roundabout instead of slaughtering the chicken.
Where was the authority when hybrid was taking over that place for maintenance and spending money to put up that statue?who authorized hybrid in the first place? Miles more details pliz what went wrong…?
Billboard at Longacres roundabout, billboard at Addis Ababa roundabout, billboard at Arcades roundabout and his main concern is a chicken at Hybrid roundabout? Misplaced priorities indeed.
I’m a strong supporter of the patriotic front but this is nonsense!! That round about has been maintained by hybrid for many years and that chicken is like a national statue. Where is our pride as a country if anything that has some little history taken away by some stupid failed politician!! Think twice and I hope he reads some of these comments. He is an *****
He will not bother if it is the statue of the chief lazy toad .
Aah aah? Iwe Miles, you are fighting chickens now? So you want a pig there instead?
I am sure that Hybrid paid and got permit to put that statue out there. So, why order them to remove it now? Something does add up here.
Miles wants to roast the big chicken!
Of all things sure, a leader starts talking about a statue and a chicken for that matter! Wonders shall never end in Zambia. Dont forget that we have forgotten about the wifi u promised! My advice to sampa is that Lusaka has so many challenges that needs critically intervention than removing the statue. Gar bbage, drainages, diseases that needs hygiene shouldnt take lives. Musebanya!
Has Miles provided the free WiFi promised to start talking about the Chicken that has been there longer than he has been Lusaka Mayor. My kids and I love that Chicken. Does Miles have better things to do?
Next he should do something about those useless psychedelic billboards that dazzle the eyes at night especially when loadshedding is activated. Vaupuwa mu dziko vanyanya wati!
problam we have a president who can not tel the truth then how can miles do the right thinngs.
which roundbout can you compare to hybrid .
wakanga umayor .
guys be siliyasi we voted for you .
dont think that you are kings now be carefull we are not your children
That is an old picture. The chicken now looks brown- Like village chicken.
Mr Mayor, is this your first time lookin at the chicken ?Don’t u know it has been there for long?What reasons are u giving the nation over a removal of such an ultimate good looking artistic facture?Tell us more.
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Unless you want to put something better, if not leave the chicken alone.
The Lusaka mayor has realized that each time he takes fights to people that can talk back he ends up not winning even if he produces that silly little Gun, so now his strategy is to attack statues because they can not talk back – Good strategy for a coward mayor. So all statues should be on the look out as this is now a shift of strategy to gain political mileage, but bwana don’t mess with the freedom statute it talks and that kama Gun of yours can’t do anything.