The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has warned street vendors to, with immediate effect, stop trading from the streets.
Council Public Relations Manager Chanda Makanta says the local authority will not tolerate anyone flouting the law by trading in undesignated places.
Ms. Makanta sounded the warning in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today.
She said the local authority will soon swing into action and rid the streets of all street vendors to ensure there is sanity in the way people conduct their business.
She added that street vending has been of great concern to the public and the Council as it has contributed to making the city dirty.
Ms. Makanta said it is not true that by conducting business in undesignated areas, vendors would make more money than when they operate from markets.
She stressed that street vending shall remain an illegal active and that council will work towards ensuring that the practice is stopped at all cost.
She advised members of the public to refrain from buying from street vendors as this was a contributing motivational factor for them to continue selling from the streets.
Ms. Makanta added that the Council was willing to work closely with the Zambia Police in a bid to eradicate the streets of vending.
She called upon the newly appointed Inspector General of Police Dr. Martin Malama to work closely with the Council and ensure that street vendors were removed from the streets.
She added that making Lusaka clean by removing street vendors would assist the local authority uphold the Keep Zambia Clean Campaign.
Meanwhile, Ms. Makanta has disclosed that the Kulima Tower Bus Station is expected to be opened today.
She said the council was aware of threats by some bus drivers to protest against the delay in having the bus station operational.
ZANIS
Good move, the city looks pathetic with all those vendors !
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ok kuluma tower open goo development. Lets see if the contractor did his work when it rains.
Is street vending still a problem in Lusaka? I thought it was resolved years ago. I think it will persist as long as the authorities do not provide an alternative to the vendors concerned.
BAti ba Sata dint you promise to make me rich in 90 days now you are taking away my source of income. :( RB i miss you
Good. Why do you have to make so much noise over that? Coordinate with the police, give my brothers and sisters a date to vacate the streets, if they dont:- tear gas and rubber bullets on them. That’s it. But one question, do you have where these people would go after their displacemente? Remember soweto mariketi is a mess right now, I guess…
ama shocko yabakonka sana ama guys aba they thoght they wud have it easy eh!!too bad dont kudabwa at work,street vendors sorry we dint want you in mmd neither do pf.guys find decent places to trade from kaili its more pockets for your money!
There will not be any more street vending when the 90 days is up on the 23rd of December as everyone one of us will have a job to which we will be  be paying a reduced PAYE rate. The council just has to be patient as this govt is led by a man of action who never ever reneges on his promises.Â
one effective way of discouraging illegal street vending is to hold those who buy from these people as accomplices in the crime and enforce it seriously.
Pass the law to that effect just like it is a crime to bribe and to receive a bribe.
Otherwise this illegal street vending madness will continue unabated.
Its about time….
LET THE EAGLE EAGLE LIVE!
PROVIDE SPACE FOR THEM IN TH MARKET AND WHEN THEY REFUSE, THEN AND ONLY THEN CAN YOU MOVE IN.
MATTER OF FACT, THOSE GUYS MAKE MORE MONEY THAN ZAMBIAN IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN THE STATES AND UK CLEANING TOILETS AND LOOKING OUT FOR IMMIGRATION OFFICERS!(RELITY CHECK!)
Good Move let there be order in those streets. It made it so difficult to keep Cities clean. Now LCC make sure you clean Lusaka, it is so dirty.
Ni DONCHI KUDABWA all the KOLWESTANS will cry the loudest
LCC needs to clean up lusaka as for vendors they must make more market areas or provide stalls … and discuss with the local markets what there needs are ,lets not forget as this is a huge source of employment
My heart goes to the two guys in the picture. You just have to live their lives to understand what thay are going through. After a day on the road, they will be going home to meet their loved ones, probably empty hands. But too have dreams of being successful one day, only God knows when that will be. As we go to sleep in our comfortable duvet, give thanks to God for the comfort and remember these guys in prayers. They most likely sleep on hard suffaces or even at intercity bus station. Council, pliz do what you can to give these guys some diginity, provide shelter for their business as it’s dangerous to sell stuff 1 metre from the highway. Those at school, work hard otherwise inchito iyi mukesaibomba. This is Life.
This is a non starter PF got votes from the same street vendors, so find a place first B4 a riot ensures
Hmmm…I don’t see this happening. Chase the vendors when there is no alternative that has been given to the poor people who gave PF all those votes?
Don’t be critic to everything friends, we have to keep health. Cholera breaks out in such situations. Even Dar es salaam is cleaner than Lusaka now. Why should that be?
#15 UKO – you are one wise human being. I’m sure you are successful in whatever you do!
Street Vending is all over the World, what this guys who sit in offices writing report and browsing Internet should do is just come up with a model. alocate clean vending places/ streets and let the vendoes pay some kind os tax. Give the vendors some incentives to trade in these areas. Free Vending stalls. Vending itself is good as it encourages enterprenourship in young generation. PF common sense is not common!!!
Some of these street vendors are the same thieves that steal from innocent people walking through the streets. They pretend in the name of street vending and yet attack and steal from people. They gang up and attack people. If they were not the ones, then they would help people that are attacked or stolen things/money and catch the thieves. Moreover, only a small fraction of all those people standing in the streets are selling merchandise, the rest are just standing waiting for opportunities to steal in the name of street vending. some of them even look so innocent but are the culprits. I know i may sound inconsiderate but only those who have been victims/witnesses of these attacks may understand.
More that we dont want to see these vendors making the city look dirty,the council must give them an altenative place and then give them a time flame to move.Those who will go against this move should be forced out by the police.its not just kicking out people from such places.Failure to offer an altenative will result in these guys finding another illegal place to put trash and those will not find such illegal places, will increase the number of bakabwalala mu Lusaka.
#20 Sonsolo. Street vending of Zambian type is NOT all over the world. In cities of the world visited vending is regulated and ONLY in specifically disgnated googs, places and days. Heavy fines are blindly slaped on offenders that dare not vend again or repeat offending or risk charges of public nuisanse and sent to jail swiftly. Your simple sound of world vending is misleading the way we were misled by Chiluba’s madness of house sales because in UK all council houses are sold to tenants. Yes some houses were sold to tenants on mortgages that are still being serviced today. No housing crisis and councils function as if nothing of house sales disturbed the system. Compare that with house sales in Zambia for a song and councils soon ceased to normal function todate.
#15 UKO. What sympathy these guys look healthy and fit. Probably when their friends were working hard at school, doing their homework and obeying teachers they were dodging classes and laughing at their friends who remained behind. Thats the problem with school you only feel the consequences much later in life when its almost too late.
That was my point in later sentence advising those at school that should they not work hard, they will do this job. Its the same thing isnt it?
ba sata last time defended street vendors when mmd wanted to remove them. he said even in london there are street vendors. please ba sata continue defending the street vendors the way you did when mmd wanted to remove them
It’s long over due, the vendors need to go bad to the markets, LCC dont spend money unnecesarly as you did the last time, plse set the pace for other councils will follow suit.Â
Find alternative for them.Â